Human vocal communication and music perception represent advanced cognitive skills, seemingly innate and universal. These faculties encompass a range of perceptual and cognitive abilities. Cross-species research sheds light on the origins of musicality by investigating whether these traits are shared…

De psychologen Fenna Poletiek en Erik de Kwaadsteniet krijgen van vakbond FNV een subsidie om te onderzoeken hoe mensen zich gaan gedragen ten opzichte van werk als ze een basisinkomen krijgen. Hoe gaan ze op zoek naar een antwoord?

Promotie

Bernhard Hommel is benoemd tot senator van de Duitse Nationale Academie van Wetenschappen, de Leopoldina. Hommel is nu voorzitter en spreker van de sectie Psychology and Cognitive Sciences en representeert deze sectie in de senaat van de Leopoldina.

Cognitief psycholoog prof.dr. Bernhard Hommel is gekozen tot lid van de Leopoldina, de Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften. Het lidmaatschap van de Leopoldina is een blijk van internationale erkenning.

Onder vindt u de wetenschappelijke publicaties van het Navigatie Lab Leiden

Internationaal geadopteerde kinderen gebruiken niet meer medicijnen dan hun niet-geadopteerde leeftijdgenoten.

De Universiteit Leiden stimuleert studenten om na hun bacheloropleiding door te gaan met de masteropleiding. Je Leidse bachelordiploma Psychologie geeft je toegang tot de masteropleiding Psychologie in Leiden.

Een onderzoek naar hoe mensen eten en drinken tijdens hun dagelijkse routines, en onder welke omstandigheden dit plaatsvindt.

Atherosclerosis is the most important underlying process that drives cardiovascular disease, and is characterized by an accumulation of cholesterol which triggers an inflammatory response in the vessel wall.

Nieuw onderzoek van de National University of Singapore en Leiden laat zien dat chimpansees en bonobo’s net zoveel contrast in hun ogen hebben als mensen, waardoor ze gemakkelijk de richting van iemands blik kunnen volgen.

Jan Sleutels is een Universitair hoofddocent aan het Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte.

Welk effect heeft een verwerkingsvoorkeur op de omgang met regels?

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In this dissertation (titled: Exploring the Synergies between Transfer in Reinforcement Learning and Procedural Content Generation) we explore how the two research fields named in the title, namely Transfer in Reinforcement Learning (TRL) and Procedural Content Generation (PCG) can synergize togethe…

Hieronder vind je de antwoorden op een aantal veelgestelde vragen over toelating tot de klinische specialisaties van de Master Psychologie.

This thesis focuses on protoplanetary disks: flattened structures of gas and dust around young stars in which planets are expected to form and grow.

In my research, we developed a method to distinguish knots. A knot is a mathematical depiction of the everyday knot that occurs in ropes and cords.

Promotor: H.V.J. Linnartz

The research presented in this thesis concerns one of the most important questions in software engineering of our time: how can we make sure that software is free from memory safety bugs?

In this thesis,

Promotor: Prof.dr. P. Stevenhagen, Prof.dr. K. Belabas (Univ. de Bordeaux)

Metal complexes and 2D materials like graphene were combined to produce structures that can function as sensors.

Promotor: Prof.dr. B. van de Water

This thesis describes the functional analysis of the Arabidopsis AHL15 gene.

Natural resources often stretch across borders that separate modern nation states. This can create conflict and limit opportunities for regulated consumption of their goods and services, but also provide opportunities for joint multinational efforts that exceed single country capabilities.

Promotor: P.M. Brakefield

In this thesis, two potential therapeutic targets for diabetic nephropathy were dentified and investigated. First, we show that glomerular clusterin is upregulated in diabetic nephropathy and demonstrated that recombinant clusterin protein can protect the podocytes against oxidative stress in vitro.…

BlaC is the β-lactamase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We show that it can recover from inhibition by clavulanic acid and that phosphate helps it do so.

We have examined sequences from the ligand-binding domain of the nicotinic acetyl choline receptor (nAChR) in 148 vertebrate species. We are in interested in this receptor because the α-neurotoxins of many venomous snakes binds to this receptor in its location at the neuromuscular junction in all ve…

Promotores: Prof.dr. H Lenstra, Prof.dr. A Facchini (Padova University)

Promotores: R. Cramer, A.K. Lenstra, Co-Promotor: B.M.M. de Weger

Over the last decades, aviation safety has improved strongly. As a downside, airline pilots do not have as many opportunities to develop through experience the competencies that they need in critical situations.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. Smets. Co-promotores: B. Gravendeel, F. Pupulin

Promotor: J. Zaanen, Co-Promotor: V. Juricic

During embryonic growth, cells proliferate, differentiate, and collectively migrate to form different tissues at the right position and time in the body.

Promotor: Christoph U. Keller, Co-promotores: Matthew A. Kenworthy, Frans Snik

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel

There is concern about the threat that nanoplastics (NPs) may pose to both wildlife and humans. This thesis explores the mechanisms of toxicity of polystyrene nanoparticles (PS-NPs) in chicken embryo.

Stars like the sun are born in large molecular clouds existing from gas and dust. During the formation process, the chemical composition of the material can be altered drastically by the changing physical conditions.

The complexity of an intelligence problem determines to a great extent the certainty that can be provided by intelligence and security services.

Urbanisation is steadily increasing with estimates expecting that 68% of the global population will live in cities by 2050. To accommodate the rural to urban transition, large quantities of land are transformed from natural to urban lands.

This thesis contains results on the arithmetic and geometry of del Pezzo surfaces of degree 1.In Chapter 1 we give the necessary background, assuming the reader is familiar with algebraic geometry.

In this thesis, single-cell approaches were applied to characterize the impact of aging on the immunological B cell landscape in different models of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, with the goal to identify and study new B cell-associated biomarkers and therapeutic targets to halt atherosclerosis…

In this thesis we study the moduli space of genus g curves, and the differential forms that occur naturally on this moduli space.

This thesis is is made of three parts. The first part describes a generalization of the Chabauty's method, that can be used to determine the rational points of a curve such that s+g>r+1, where g is the genusof the curve, r is the rank of the Mordell-Weil group of the jacobian of the curve and s is…

This thesis describes how different colours of light affect various aspects of the growth and development of Arabidopsis and tomato plants⁠.

Promotor: A. Doelman, Co-promotores: P.J.A. van Heijster; A. Zagaris