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Behavioural Biology Group /
Leerstoelgroep Gedragsbiologie
Our group, which
is part of the Helmholtz Institute, focuses on the cognitive and
neural mechanisms underlying animal behaviour.
Research falls
into three areas:
Cognitive
neuroscience of bird song ------ Animal social
learning and innovation -------- Primate social
cognition
  
For more details,
see our research pages and the webpages of the
project
leaders.
For descriptions
of the possible research projects as part of your masters,
click here.
Contact
details:
Visiting Address:Padualaan 8, De Uithof, 3584
CH, Utrecht. Directions and map.
Mail Address: P.O. Box 80.086, 3508 TB, Utrecht, The
Netherlands.
Telephone: +31 (0)30 2534230 (secretary, Miriam van Hattum)
or 2533084 (Maartje van Stiphout).
Fax: +31 (0)30 2532837.
 Short descriptions of internships within the Behavioural Biology Group
There are a number of opportunities to work
with the Behavioural Biology group:
At the
undergraduate and masters level: see information on
teaching and internships
At the graduate (PhD) and
post-doctoral level: see vacancy
information.
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NEWS:
NEW:
‘A Bird’s Eye View of Human Language Evolution’, by Berwick,
Beckers, Okanoya & Bolhuis in Frontiers in Evolutionary
Neuroscience.
NEW:
‘Birdsong neurolinguistics: songbird context-free grammar claim is
premature’, by Beckers, Bolhuis, Okanoya & Berwick in NeuroReport.
NEW:
Johan Bolhuis reviews Robert Trivers'
Folly of Fools in Science
New: 'Darwin
in Mind' cover article in PLoS
Biology on a new approach to Evolutionary Psychology by
Bolhuis, Brown, Richardson & Laland
New: 'A
minimalist approach to comparative
psychology' by Hemelrijk &
Bolhuis in Trends Cogn. Sci. 15, 185-186
New: 'From
songs to synapses: Molecular mechanisms of birdsong
memory' by Moorman, Mello and
Bolhuis in BioEssays.
New: 'Chimpanzees
fail a what-where-when task but find rewards by means
of a location-based association
strategy' by Dekleva e.a in PLoS
ONE (Features
online in NewScientist news item)
New
article in
Phil.
Trans. B. by Reader, Hager and Laland demonstrating general
intelligence in primates
Trends Cogn. Sci.
paper
'Songs
to syntax: The linguistics of birdsong', by Berwick, Okanoya, Beckers &
Bolhuis
October 2010:
Twitter Evolution
- Cover article in Nature Reviews Neuroscience by Bolhuis,
Okanoya and Scharff on the parallels between birdsong and
human speech
![[NRNcover]](NRN cover 2010.jpg)
Helmholtz Lectures
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3-feb-2012
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Helmholtz Lecture, Robert Berwick |
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