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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

music

A tune for your thoughts: interview with Marije Derks-Dijkman

On April 2, Marije Derks-Dijkman will defend her PhD thesis, bringing together years of research on an idea that has been close to her heart for a great part of her life: the power of music to support memory.

Martin Vinck

How the brain creates meaning: Martin Vinck investigates the key to thoughts, attention and consciousness

Hoe creëert het brein betekenis uit de enorme hoeveelheid informatie die het voortdurend binnenkrijgt? Volgens neurowetenschapper Martin Vinck ligt het antwoord in large-scale integratie.

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.

News

Occasional smoking: harmless or not

Eyes on care after electroconvulsive therapy

Janna Vrijsen appointed Professor of Mental Fitness

Agenda

Prognostics of age-related macular denegeration

Donders Session - 16 April

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

Mobile escape experience about busyness, focus, and resilience. A game that doesn't explain what ADHD is, but lets you feel what it is like to live with ADHD.

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