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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.  

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iBBA crosses borders

Visit our events

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. Register via: https://forms.gle/rbdhDNNra99vn6Kj9

FEBRUARY 2026

12 February. iBBA colloquium with Arvid Guterstam from Karolinska Institutet

MARCH 2026

19 March. iBBA colloquium with Asifa Majid from the University of Oxford. 

APRIL 2026

16 April. iBBA colloquium with Charlotte Stagg from the University of Oxford. 

JUNE 2026

18 June. iBBA colloquium with Marco Iosa from the University of Rome, Sapienza. 

Past events

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ABC-iBBA day

2025, October 10th. iBBA and ABC joined forces for a vibrant day of talks, posters, and cross-disciplinary discussions, celebrating the latest advances in brain, cognition, and behaviour research and strengthening collaborations between VU and UvA.

Workshops

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 

September 11th, 2025 -  Leda Cosmides from University of California, Santa Barbara, redefines rational behaviour

May 22th 2025 - Elmar Kal from Brunel University London talks provides a predictive processing account of anxiety symptoms

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

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

November 21st 2024 - Isabella Wagner from University of Vienna

October 19th 2023 - Isabel Thielmann from Freiburg

September 21st  2023- Lisa DeBruine from Glasgow replicates face research

June 8th 2023 - Jennifer Cook from Birmingham reads other people

May 25th 2023 -Tamar Makin from Cambridge about neurorehbilitation and prosthetics

March 16th 2023 - Willem Frankenhuis from Freiburg, Germany discussed 'Hidden talents' in children

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’

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c.trentin@vu.nl

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

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