psychology_assessment_2011.pdf
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… associate professors, and six assistant professors. Over the period of evaluation the research fte had a maximum value of 18.4 (2007) and a minimum of 11.4 (2010). Research has focused on motivated cognition grounded in and emerging from sensorimotor experience, with an important and increasing neuroscientific component. Key results provided by the programme are: the discovery of how adaptive action control is modulated by mood, reward and religious practice, the finding that future performance is … significantly. Access to state-of-the-art experimental equipment, to a research-dedicated scanner, as well as to behavioural lab space seems very well organised. PhD training appears to be excellent, with the students expressing a very positive experience at all levels. The very coherent programme with a distinctive focus on adolescence clearly makes the Netherlands a leader in this particular area of developmental psychology, as well as one of the major contributors to research on the … of multisensory information, like interactions between hearing and seeing. Several domains of intersensory integration are investigated, like the perception of faces, body gestures, speech, space, emotions, and time. Its clinical research focuses on experience-based neuroplasticity via cognitive and behavioural stimulation. Here, the programme tries to acquire knowledge about how the brain interacts with the environment. It explores new forms of neuro-rehabilitation for acquired disorders and for …
