News
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UM researchers find that sensation seeking is a decisive factor in participating in painful experiments.
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The Keuzegids Masters 2018 has been published, and this year 5 Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN) programmes (or to which FPN contributes) have been reviewed: I sat down with Prof. dr. Rob Ruiter, Vice-Dean of Education to discuss the results.
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The Master in Forensic Psychology and the Research Master in Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience are once again ranked 1st in their respective categories of Keuzegids Masters 2018.
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The results are in! In 2017 an International Review Committee evaluated the research in Psychology at nine Dutch universities. On 19 September 2017 it was the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience’s (FPN) turn to be reviewed according to the Standard Evaluation Protocol 2015-2021 (adopted by KNAW, VSNU, and NWO).
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Scientists from Maastricht University (UM) and the University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG) have managed to influence speech comprehension by sending electrical currents through the skull to stimulate the brain area involved in hearing.
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Earlier this month NWO announced new recipients of the coveted VENI grant. Two of the names on the list are researchers at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience (FPN): Dr. Lotte Lemmens and Dr. Lars Hausfeld. We sat down with them to talk about their work.
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A new journal has been established to allow the publication of research that does not produce results or has been executed poorly.
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These questions will be answered in four consortia that have been awarded a NWO-Complexity grant. MaCSBio is involved in two of these consortia and will carry out research regarding complex systems in the field of health and nutrition.
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Franca Tonnaer investigated why people without a history of violence are capable of controlling their anger and why violent offenders are not.