Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging

Our integrative research focuses on understanding the neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying human behaviour. We combine advanced neuroimaging techniques, interventions, computational models, and novel experimental paradigms to uncover the fundamental principles of brain and cognition across healthy and clinical populations. The DCCN is part of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour.

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Karin Roelofs receives Spinozapremie

26 June 2026 News item

Neuroscientist Karin Roelofs of the Behavioural Science Institute and Donders Institute at Radboud University is this year’s recipient of the Spinozapremie, the highest honour in Dutch academia.

It Just Won’t Stop, a short documentary by Martine Berendsen

23 June 2026 News item

What happens in the brain when young people stop using social media? In Martine Berendsen’s short documentary It Just Won’t Stop, four teenagers are followed as they go without social media for eleven days.

Why do we keep eating even when we’re no longer hungry?

24 April 2026 Research news item

Piling another plate full, even though we’ve long since had our fill. According to Esther Aarts, Professor of Nutritional Neuroscience at Radboud University, eating behaviour is the result of constant communication between the gut and the brain.