Why Cognitive Neuroscience in Nijmegen?

• This Master’s programme is located within the world-renowned Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, located on the campus of the Radboud University, with a research staff of over 900 scientists.
• Nijmegen is one of the foremost centres of cognitive neuroscience in the world. Hundreds of scientists from various faculties and top institutes have joined forces on the Radboud University campus. Besides the Donders Institute there is the Radboud university medical centre and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Their researchers work together very closely, exchange expertise and share state-of-the-art research equipment to unravel the workings of the human brain.
• This competitive programme provides a sound balance of theory and practice. Our selective approach guarantees excellence, especially during the research training period.
• Motivated students have the opportunity to do a double master with the Master's programme in Artificial Intelligence, Gezondheidszorgpsychologie (Dutch taught) or the Research Master's Behavioural Science in three years.
• The Radboud University campus holds a large array of state-of-the-art equipment, like labs with fMRI, MEG, EEG and eye-tracking equipment. Master’s students are free to use these, enabling you to do any type of research in this field you’d want to.
• The programme has its own, student-driven, scientific journal; based on the Stanford Exchange: Proceeding of the Master’s Programme Cognitive Neuroscience.
   

Have your ever wondered

• How do people understand a simple sentence?
• How do they recognise seperate words in running speech?
• How do people pick out their own glass of beer out of all the other glasses on a bar?
• How do they find their way in a building?
• How does your brain enable you to remember certain events?
• How does your brain adapt to certain changes?

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