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We do not only want to share the final product of our study (protocols & data), but also share our experiences and best practices in data collection and management. That's why we share our experience in doing research in this blog. Written by our own researchers.

Keeping still for research purposes: collecting MRI data in developmental samples

By Mara van der Meulen, PhD

Have you ever tried to get an 8-year-old child to sit completely still for at least 50 minutes? And have you ever tried to do so when that child was a bit nervous? This was exactly the situation that our young participants were in when they visited the MRI scanner for a scan session in […]

Preconference Workshop Flux Congress 2022

By Michelle Achterberg, PhD, Simone Dobbelaar, MSc, and Simone Mulder, MSc

The SYNC lab and Leiden-CID had the honor to be part of the Flux Congress 2022 in Paris, by organizing a preconference workshop about the developmental neuroscience cycle. In this blog, we give you a small impression of the amazing day! The Developmental Neuroscience Cycle: from Research Design to Societal Impact When conducting developmental neuroscience […]

Studying replication of neural findings in the L-CID study

By Simone Dobbelaar, MSc

The importance of replication In the last years the field of psychology has focused more and more on the importance of replication, as original findings are often not replicated. To discover which findings are robust and which are more sample-specific, it important to replicate findings in an independent sample. Especially findings on neural activation using […]

Working on societal impact via a science festival – lessons learned from a researcher’s perspective

By Karlijn Hermans, PhD

“Societal impact is investing in creative ways to engage the future generation in science.” On Expedition in Franeker: Social Lab On the 6th of May, the L-CID team and colleagues of the Erasmus SYNC lab presented the Social SYNC Lab at Expedition NEXT; the national science festival for children, organized by the NWO-NWA. The festival […]

NVP 2022 talks and posters

By Lara M. Wierenga, PhD, Lina van Drunen, MSc, Mara van der Meulen, PhD, Michelle Achterberg, PhD, and Simone Dobbelaar, MSc

It was so wonderful to meet in person again at NVP 2022 in Egmond aan Zee April 28-30. Simone Dobbelaar presented her work on “Retaliatory responses in childhood: an fMRI test-replication design”. Furthermore we share our posters here: Lina van Drunen presented her poster on “Music alters brain development: A longitudinal twin study on sensorimotor […]

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