Module I:
Cognitive Neuroscience

Module I covers the main theories of cognition and the neural underpinnings of a variety of cognitive processes, as well as the research that led to those theories. Faculty and teaching in this module cover the major anatomical areas, functional neuroanatomy, and cognitive systems.
This will include the concepts of attention, perception, pain, language, memory, emotions, social cognition, and cognitive spaces. Learning and plas-ticity are a common theme cutting across several partners’ research. The development of the brain and cognitive capacity is another important area.
Advanced courses introduce a range of models on neuronal coding and cognitive mapping.
The cognitive neuroscience topics are complemented by research topics and teaching from more basic neurosci-ence domains. An introductory course on the basics of neuroscience lays the foundation for the student’s research project, allowing them to see the wider context. This course covers neuroanatomy, systems neuroscience, sensory systems, the motor system, and modulatory systems and introduces common methods used in basic neuroscience such as histology and microscopy.

Our overarching goal is to crack the cognitive code by identifying the key processing principles of the brain enabling human thinking. The broad mission of our Department is reflected in a wide variety of research areas in cognitive neuroscience, including spatial navigation, memory, time processing, learning and decision making, knowledge acquisition, and perception; and translational research on population coding in the hippocampal-entorhinal system, cognitive enhancement and Alzheimer’s disease. more

The department of Neuropsychology’s research agenda is to identify the functional architecture of language and its neural bases in the mature and the developing human brain. more

In my group, we study how mental processes, particularly affective states like emotions and feelings, relate to brain-body and especially brain-heart interactions. To this aim, we conduct psychophysiological and neuroimaging studies in classical lab-based settings but also using real-world (e.g., ambulatory assessment) and naturalistic setups (e.g., immersive virtual reality). more

The overarching goal of the research group Milestones of Early Cognitive Development is to understand how typically human cognition develops in early childhood and how it is implemented in the maturing brain. more

Cognitive and neural mechanisms of voluntary action and of bodily awareness. more

How does our brain allow us to make sense of our visual world? Our group works on unraveling the cascade of visual and semantic processing in the human brain and discover how the emerging representations allow us to interact effectively with our environment. more

Lifespan neurocognitive development of memory, perception, and goal-directed behavior | Behavioral and brain plasticity | Human-machine interactions more

Timing in sentence and language comprehension (M/EEG + behavior) | Temporal patterns in large-scale linguistic corpora (computational linguistics + frequency analyses) more

We are interested in how the brain encodes and processes simple and complex sounds and how these mechanisms change when people adjust to new listening situations. These studies address basic mechanisms of sound processing that underlie all higher human auditory functions, such as speech and music perception. more

Attention | Perception | Action-perception cycle more

Our lab explores the developmental origins of intelligent behavior. We conduct brain imaging studies with children from all over the world. more

Our research group aims to gain insight in the neural coding properties underlying key aspects of human intelligence. more

How does brain structure support human cognition? To answer this question the cognitive neurogenetics groups studies: more