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iBBA institute for research on brain, body and behaviour

Institute Brain and Behaviour Amsterdam

iBBA is a research institute within the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences, that brings together excellent research into the psychological, neural and cognitive aspects underling human behavior at different levels, from cognitive, social and learning processes, to sports and motor perception.

The goal of iBBA is to foster the exchange and development of knowledge for advanced methods of experimental research. The core mission is to develop and test fundamental theories of mind, brain, body movement and/or behaviour. The institute achieves this mission through combining world class-expertise in terms of methods and state of the art analyses, through combining and strengthening infrastructure (from labs to scanners), quality control (e.g., data management; from acquisition to storing and sharing data), communication profile (towards funding agencies and society) and by making research useful for economic or societal utilisation (valorisation).  

Our members work in the field of human movement sciences, experimental and applied psychology, clinical, neuro and developmental psychology and biological psychology.  

iBBA crosses borders

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OCTOBER

10th October 2025. Joint iBBA-ABC (Amsterdam Brain and Cognition - UvA) network event. Meet your fellow researchers from the University of Amsterdam and build novel connections! Location: Brakke Grond, Time: 12:00 to 21:00. Register here: ABC x iBBA Day 2025 - Registration

NOVEMBER 

17 November 2025. OPM workshop, in collaboration with the MEG center VUmc. Time: 13:00 to 17:00. Speakers: Prof. Ole Jensen, Prof. Matt Brookes, and Dr. Arjan Hillebrand

Past events

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Workshops 2024/2025

November 14th/15th 2024. Introduction to the computation of (non-)linear brain dynamics using Information Theory. Speakers: Andrés Canales-Johnson from University of Cambridge (UK) and Robin Ince from the University of Glasgow. Organizers: Nicolás Sánchez-Fuenzalida and Caterina Trentin (VU)

Colloquia 2024/2025

November 21st 2024 - Isabella Wagner from University of Vienna

February 20th 2025 - Martin Rolfs from Humboldt University of Berlin

April 10th 2025 - Catherine Tallon-Baudry from Ecole Normale Supérieure

iBBA-days

2025 iBBA day 'iBBA Inside Out”: What goes on inside iBBA, and how to branch out to each other’

2024 iBBA day 'AI in Research'

2023 iBBA day 'Science communications'

2022 iBBA day ‘Science to business’

Colloquia 2023

October 19 - Isabel Thielmann from Freiburg

September 21 - Lisa DeBruine from Glasgow replicates face research

June 8 - Jennifer Cook from Birmingham reads other people

May 25 -Tamar Makin from Cambridge about neurorehbilitation and prosthetics

March 16 - Willem Frankenhuis from Freiburg, Germany discussed 'Hidden talents' in children

iBBA fundings

Contact us

c.trentin@vu.nl

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences
Van der Boechorststraat 7
1081 HV Amsterdam

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