743 search results for “cognitive linguistics” in the Staff website
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Jeshua Tromp
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Natasja Delbar
Faculty of Humanities
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Alina Karakanta
Faculty of Humanities
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Henrike Jansen
Faculty of Humanities
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Dunja Wackers
Science
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S. Valdez
Faculty of Humanities
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Leticia Pablos Robles
Faculty of Humanities
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Irina Morozova
Faculty of Humanities
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Carmen Kleinherenbrink
Faculty of Humanities
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Rubicon awarded to neuroscientist Simeen Tabassi Mofrad
Neuroscientist Simeen Tabassi Mofrad has been awarded a Rubicon grant to conduct research on cortical and allelic determinants of age-related cognitive decline at University of Oxford. She holds the first rank among all Rubicon applicants in NWO Domain Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH).
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Egyptian Diaspora in Paris – Between the Language and Resistance
Lecture, This Time For Africa! series
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Do you have a hard time with uncertainty? This may influence how you perceive the world
Always taking the same route to work, going for that one dish in restaurants and going on the same holiday each summer: this may ring a bell for those who don’t like uncertainty. Researchers are now discovering that this aversion affects how we understand the world.
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Linguistic atlases, and dialect maps
Workshop Series
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The mechanism behind a friendly chat: 'Puzzle gets unravelled bit by bit'
A friendly chat is more complicated than you might think. As soon as the other person finishes talking, you already have an answer ready. But how do we know when it's time to change turns? University lecturer Johanneke Caspers has been awarded an NWO Open Competition grant to investigate the role of…
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Funding for science communication on deaf community and on losing your way
Two Leiden University science communication projects have been awarded a WECOM grant through the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA). One project is a study of the history of the deaf community in the Netherlands and the other is of a condition that causes people to lose their way.
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Philip Spinhoven
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Niek Strohmaier
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Hanna Swaab
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Marga Sikkema-de Jong
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Leticia Rettore Micheli
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ellen de Bruijn
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work
A basic income would not necessarily mean that people would work less. This is the conclusion of a series of behavioural experiments by cognitive psychologist Fenna Poletiek, social psychologist Erik de Kwaadsteniet and cognitive psychologist Bastiaan Vuyk. They also found indications that people with…
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Bert Botma
Faculty of Humanities
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Johanneke Caspers
Faculty of Humanities
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Charlotte van der Voort
Faculty of Humanities
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Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Faculty of Humanities
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Claudio Di Felice
Faculty of Humanities
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Ying-ting Wang
Faculty of Humanities
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Maarten van Leeuwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Brenda Assendelft
Faculty of Humanities
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Longming Shichuan
Faculty of Humanities
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Exhibition on scripts at Oude UB: Pseudo or Don’t
What is writing? And what looks like writing, but isn’t? The Pseudo or Don’t pop-up exhibition explores the boundaries of scripts. The exhibition will run at Oude UB from 9 to 26 October.
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Camil Staps receives Rubicon grant: What does ‘that’ mean?
PhD student Camil Staps is continuing his academic career in Berlin. He receives a Rubicon grant to do research there on demonstrative pronouns.
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NWO Grant for Research into the History of Languages: ‘It tells us something about our past as humans’
A collaboration between linguists, geographers and anthropologists aims to uncover how languages spread across South America over thousands of years. Associate Professor Rik van Gijn is responsible for the linguistic side of this NWO project.
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Talk by Marian Klamer
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Talk by Nancy Kula
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Bringing Archives to Life: Exploring legacy materials, digital tools, and data utilization
Conference, Workshop
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Illusions as the key: how spatial technology can help patients
Spatial technology such as virtual reality can help patients who have difficulty with spatial cognition, for instance if they keep on losing their way. In her inaugural lecture, neuropsychologist Ineke van der Ham will talk about the importance of avatars, the patient experience and room for innovat…
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The origin of Lithuanian DAUG ‘many’
Lecture, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (CIEL) Seminars
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Cortical contributions to cognitive control of language and beyond
PhD defence
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Johan Rooryck receives honorary doctorate from Tromsø University
Professor Johan Rooryck, currently executive director of cOAlition S, will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Tromsø for his commitment to open access in science. He will be awarded the honorary doctorate on 1 September.
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Major international study links genes to brain structural changes over time
There seem to be genes that influence how our brains develop over time. A large international consortium has discovered this with an extensive study. The results of the study were recently published in Nature Neuroscience.
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ERC Consolidator Grants for six Leiden researchers
From the effects of hormone fluctuations in women via the interior structure of giant planets to the prehistory of the languages: six Leiden researchers have been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council.
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10 years of Georgian at Leiden University: Ramaz Kurdadze returns
This year marks a special occasion because it was just ten years ago that the Georgian language was taught for the first time at Leiden University. It is even more exciting that its first professor, Ramaz Kurdadze, will return to Leiden this year to teach students interested in the language. Kurdadze…
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Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics 2022
Conference
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How animals flirt with each other
How do animals choose their partners? The answer is simple: it’s all about quality. While humans tend to wear clothes that happen to be in fashion, animals do nothing without a reason. Behind beautiful plumage or a deafening roar is only one message: I am in great shape. The evolutionary courtship displays…
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‘Let pupils actively engage with texts to improve their reading comprehension’
Young Dutch people’s reading skills have been declining for years. The main reason for this is that many have difficulty with reading at greater depth. Teach pupils to read actively in order to construct meaning is what Leiden researchers Paul van den Broek, Christine Espin and Anne Helder write in…
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New professor Alwin Kloekhorst: 'The origin of your language also says something about you'
Where does Dutch come from? Newly appointed Professor Alwin Kloekhorst looks for an answer to that question in millennia-old languages from Anatolia, the Asian part of present-day Turkey. 'A new interpretation in one of the Anatolian languages can have consequences for dozens of other languages.'
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Between persistence and flexibility - The neuromodulation of cognitive control
PhD defence
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Two researchers receive Rubicon grant for research abroad
Uncovering ageing processes in the brain and research on the use of the word ‘that’. Thanks to a Rubicon Grant, two Leiden researchers who were recently awarded their PhDs will be able to conduct research at a research institute abroad.