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.

NEW: Johan Bolhuis reviews Robert Trivers' Folly of Fools in Science

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

 

Helmholtz Lectures

3-feb-2012

Helmholtz Lecture, Robert Berwick

Associated groups and other useful links.