Overview

You will study the basic sensorimotor aspects of perception-action coupling as well as the cognitive contextual and social components. This track is aimed at the three basic components of current Cognitive Neuroscience: modelling, designing and conducting behavioural studies and measuring the neurobiological foundations of behaviour. 

You will gain ample experience in current research and analysis techniques in perception, three-dimensional motor research, psychophysiological studies, neuroimaging and electromyographical studies. You will also be able to apply formal theories on and models of perceptive functions, sensorimotor functions, and complex actions in your research. This track also works closely with the Radboudumc and the Sint Maartenskliniek, a hospital that specialises in posture and movement, housed in Nijmegen.

Future career opportunities

The programme provides a great basis for a scientific research career as it gives you the qualifications you need to attain a PhD position. The majority of our graduates have taken on a PhD project, at the Donders Graduate School, International Max Planck Research School and elsewhere in- and outside of the Netherlands. Other graduates follow a non-academic career path, as researcher in research institutes in the Netherlands or abroad, government institutions, industrial and commercial settings (e.g. in the pharmaceutical industry).

Research

This Master’s programme is located within the world-renowned Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, located on the campus of the Radboud University , with a research staff of over 900 scientists. This institute has several unique facilities for brain imaging using EEG, fMRI and MEG. You will be able to use these facilities enabling you to do any type of research in this field you would want to. Besides the Donders Institute, there is the Radboud University medical centre and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Their researchers work together very closely, exchange expertise and share state-of-the-art research equipment to unravel the workings of the human brain. 

Accreditation

This programme is accredited by the NVAO (the Dutch-Flemish accreditation organisation).