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Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour

The Donders Institute explores the human brain, cognition, and behaviour across various disciplines, including medicine, physics, biology, psychology, AI, and language studies. Our researchers collaborate to enhance knowledge of the brain, aiming to benefit health, education, and technology.

Highlights

Maria Leptin

ERC President Maria Leptin visit: science, society and the future of European research

The Donders Institute and Radboud University welcomed ERC President Maria Leptin for an inspiring afternoon dedicated to the role of frontier research in society. A recording of the second part of the symposium is now available to watch.

Portret Karin Roelofs

Karin Roelofs receives Spinozapremie

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.

Het Trigon-gebouw

Theme meetings for Donderians

Theme meetings will be organized every third Thursday, every two months, such that all Donderians have the opportunity to join multiple theme meetings.

Agenda

Donders Writing Club

Open Seminar by Prof Alessandro Prigione and Prof Jürgen Knoblich

Donders Lecture by Iain Couzin

Dynamics of the cortico-hippocampalinteractions

This is the Donders Institute

The Donders Institute, based in Nijmegen, is a leading research institute in the field of brain, cognition and behaviour. In this short video, you will get a unique insight into the work of more than 1,000 scientists from this network, spread across six partners on the Nijmegen campus.

Learn more about the Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour

The Donders Institute and the Donders Citylab offer several opportunities to learn more about our science. We are always looking for research participants to do experiments and you are invited to visit the Brain Museum in the city centre of Nijmegen:

Sensorimotor lab

Become a research participant

Help us by participating in one of our research projects

Help us by participating in one of our research projects
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ADHD Escape

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