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Brain and Cognitive Sciences (MSc)

Participating research institutes within UvA

Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam (CSCA)

The Cognitive Science Center is an interdisciplinary institute for cognition research in which a number of research institutes from the UvA participate. It comprises groups from biology, psychology, computer science, philosophy, linguistics, medical science and economics. The CSCA functions as a platform and community, which makes it unique in bringing together scientists with an interest in the acquisition, storage and usage of information, and how these processes are mediated by the brain.

Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS)

The Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences is an interdisciplinary institute that brings together over 200 researchers with backgrounds in biology, (bio)chemistry, (bio)physics, medicine and data analysis- and information technology.

Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)

The Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication is a research institute within the Faculty of Humanities of the UvA. The ACLC is focused on the study of both functionally and formally oriented linguistic research.

Academic Medical Center (AMC)

The Academic Medical Center completely integrates an academic hospital and a Medical Faculty into one organisation. This integration enhances the coordination of fundamental and clinical research and intensifies close cooperation between research fields. The AMC complex houses the university hospital and the medical faculty of the UvA, as well as the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience. This concentration of expertise makes the AMC ‘more than just a university hospital’ and provides fruitful scientific collaboration.

Center for Research in Experimental Economics and political Decision-making (CREED)

The Center for Research in Experimental Economics and political Decision-making is a research institute at the Faculty of Economics and Econometrics at the UvA. Its research programme consists of three main projects: (i) economics of political decision makers, (ii) bounded rationality and institutions, and (iii) experimental economics.

Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)

The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation is a research institute of the UvA in which researchers from the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Humanities collaborate. Research within the ILLC is focused on the fundamental principles of encoding, transmission, and comprehension of information. Emphasis is on natural and formal languages, but other information carriers, such as images and music, are studied as well.

Psychology Research Institute

The Psychology Research Institute within the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences is strongly oriented towards a basic empirical approach of the major themes in psychology. Research is predominantly focused on theoretical, mechanistic explanations of normal and abnormal human behaviour, on a smaller scale issues in more applied contexts are addressed.

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Fascination on UvA TV

In 'Fascination' Henkjan Honing discusses listening to music, as listening to sound (English subtitles).

A blog on music cognition by Henkjan Honing.
Henkjan Honing is Associate Professor in Music Cognition at the ILLC / University of Amsterdam (UvA).