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Every year the Research Master Brain and Cognitive Sciences organises an international 2-weeks Summer School around a timely topic in the research field of Brain and Cognition. The Summer School is open for students of this master, as well as for national and international students of similar master programmes.
The Summer School closes with the annual ABC Symposium, which is organized around the same topic as the Summer School. During this symposium, the Annual Honorary Frijda Chair is awarded to an outstanding, interdisciplinary researcher in the field of brain and cognitive sciences.
2021: Musicality - Unraveling our capacity for music
2020: Gray Matter: an Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Aging Brain
2019: The Emergent Mind
2018: Social Cognition and the Brain
2017: The Sleeping Brain: From Neural Networks to Cognition
2016: Computational Modelling & Cognitive Development
2015: Multisensory Integration and Synaesthesia
2014: Early life experiences: from genes to cognition
2013: Genes, The Brain and Human Behavior
2012: Emotional memory: From patient to synapse
2011: To Head or to Heed?
2010: Neuroeconomics: An exciting joint venture
2009: Consciousness and the Brain
2008: Cognitive modelling: contrasting
2007: Language, acquisition, processing and disorders
2006: An interdisciplinary approach to cognitive developmental disorders
2005: Cognitive development: from human evolution to language acquisition
2004: Memory interdisciplinary perspectives
2003: Human reasoning and cognitive science
Nico Frijda Chair
Nico Frijda (1927-2015) was emeritus professor of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam and a pioneer of Cognitive Science in the Netherlands. In his name an annual Honorary Chair has been established at the University of Amsterdam. Every year a prominent research in the field of Cognitive Sciences is appointed as visiting professor on the Frijda Chair. The acclaimed scientist gives the annual Frijda lecture and the theme of the annual ABC (Amsterdam Brain and Cognition Center) Summer School is determined by the expertise of the researcher holding the chair.
2022 | Wolf Singer, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt, DE
2021 | David Huron, Ohio State University, USA
2020 | Ulman Lindenberger, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany
2019 | Greg Siegle, University of Pittsburgh, USA
2018 | Brian Knutson,Stanford University, USA
2017 | Jerome Siegel, Semel Institute for Neuroscience & Human Behavior (UCLA), USA
2016 | Josh Tenenbaum, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
2015 | Mark T. Wallace, Vanderbilt Brain Institute
2014 | Micheal Meaney, McGill University, Canada.
2013 | Christine van Broeckhoven, University of Antwerp, Belgium
2012 | Kevin LaBar, Duke University, USA
2011 | Adele Diamond, University of British Columbia, Canada
2010 | Ernst Fehr, University of Zürich, Switzerland
2009 | Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology, USA
2008 | James McClelland, Stanford University, USA
2007 | Harald Clahsen, University of Essex, UK
2006 | Annette Karmiloff-Smith, University College London, UK
2005 | Michael Tomasello, Max Planck, Leipzig, Germany
2004 | Richard Morris, University of Edinburgh, UK
2003 | Keith Stenning, University of Edinburgh, UK
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