Research at the CSCA

Brain & Cognition

Research

Institutes

Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam (CSCA)

Several research institutes are involved in the Cognitive Science Center Amsterdam.

Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC)

The ACLC is focused on the study of both functionally and formally oriented linguistic research. The strength of the institute is the broadness of its research and the interaction between different approaches.

Academic Medical Center (AMC)

The AMC is one of the largest hospitals in the Netherlands. It was the first institute in this country to completely integrate 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.

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

CREED is a research institute at the Faculty of Economics and Econometrics (FEE) at the University of Amsterdam. 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 ILLC is a research institute of the University of Amsterdam in which researchers from the Faculty of Science (FNWI) and the Faculty of Humanities (FGW) 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 institute 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, although on a smaller scale most research programs also address issues in more applied contexts.

Research Institute for Child Development and Education (CDE)

The research institute studies different aspects of child and adolescent development in relation to their educational contexts.

Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS)

SILS is a multidisciplinary research institute within the Faculty of Science (FNWI) with the aim to understand the functioning of a living cell. Within SILS, the Center for NeuroScience (SILS-CNS) consists of the groups working in the field of neuroscience.

Research priority areas

The fifteen so-called research priority areas represent the very best the UvA has to offer.