Iza Korsmit has joined the lab to collaborate with Diego Arize on the project that aims to develop a mobile application to train emotion recognition and regulation. She has a research background in music and emotion cognition, but also has expertise in data privacy and security through her work as a data steward. Currently, she is running an experiment that… Read more »

De Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij (KHMW) heeft de eerste Mercator Sapiens Stimulus toegekend aan prof. dr. Mariska Kret, hoogleraar Cognitieve Psychologie aan de Universiteit Leiden. De prijs, waaraan een geldbedrag verbonden is van 1 miljoen euro, werd op 12 februari in Haarlem uitgereikt. Over de Mercator Sapiens Stimulus De Mercator Sapiens Stimulus gaat uit van de KHMW, het oudste wetenschappelijke genootschap… Read more »

For her project, PhD candidate Kiki Spoelstra focuses on social cognition in domestic and wild cats. In her first study, she aims to research how domestic cats react to positively and negatively valanced emotional stimuli from different modalities; visual, auditory and olfactory. For this project, we are looking for visual and auditory stimuli collected in cats from different ages, sexes,… Read more »

Diego Arize, a Senior Unity Game Developer and Software Engineer, has joined the lab to working on an exciting new project. This project aims to develop a virtual emotion training tool using machine-learning, emotion recognition and heart rate. As human’s capacity to express, recognize and share emotions enables them to navigate their social worlds, it is therefore a core component… Read more »