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Developmental Psychology (UvA)
The developmental psychology programme studies typical and a-typical cognitive development across the life-span: from infancy to senescence.
Typical and a-typical development
The study of typical development focusses on learning, decision-making, cognitive control, and capacities required at school, e.g. second language acquisition, whereas the study of a-typical development investigates addiction, ADHD, mild to borderline intellectual disability, anxiety, and learning disabilities (dyslexia and math anxiety). The study of a-typical development addresses underlying mechanisms, optimal ways of assessment, as well as interventions.
Social, affective, and motivational modulations
In both research lines, we study social, affective, and motivational modulations of cognitive development. We have a strong focus on:
the relation between cognitive development and brain maturation;
theoretical, computational, and statistical modeling of (neuro-)cognitive development; and
a combination of fundamental research with practice-oriented work.
The developmental psychology research programmme has been funded by several NWO innovative research schemes (VENI-VIDI-VICI), EU grants. The research programme has also received financial supperort from the research priority area Yield, which focusses on the bio-ecology of human development, and from the NWO's Nationale Wetenschap Agenda. -
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Clinical Psychology (UvA)
The mission of the Clinical Psychology programme is to conduct fundamental research using methods and models from basic psychology to investigate psychopathology, and to run trials to inform clinical practice.
The Clinical Psychology research programme comprises two research lines: our fundamental research focuses on the neurobiological and psychological underpinnings of emotional memory. A second line of research focuses on treatment outcome research in a wide variety of psychiatric disorders, including technological innovations in psychotherapy. These two research lines are complemented by research from an individual differences perspective (applied).