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Behavioural Biology Group /
Leerstoelgroep Gedragsbiologie
Our group, which
is part of the Helmholtz Institute, focuses on the cognitive and
neural mechanisms underlying animal behaviour.
Research falls
into three areas:
Cognitive
neuroscience of bird song ------ Animal social
learning and innovation -------- Primate social
cognition
  
For more details,
see our research pages and the webpages of the
project
leaders.
For descriptions
of the possible research projects as part of your masters,
click here.
Contact
details:
Visiting Address:Padualaan 8, De Uithof, 3584
CH, Utrecht. Directions and map.
Mail Address: P.O. Box 80.086, 3508 TB, Utrecht, The
Netherlands.
Telephone: +31 (0)30 2534230 (secretary, Miriam van Hattum)
or 2533084 (Maartje van Stiphout).
Fax: +31 (0)30 2532837.
 Short descriptions of internships within the Behavioural Biology Group
There are a number of opportunities to work
with the Behavioural Biology group:
At the
undergraduate and masters level: see information on
teaching and internships
At the graduate (PhD) and
post-doctoral level: see vacancy
information.
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News:
Orangutans
hold leaves in their mouths in deceiving
predators
See also: BBC
News 5 August 2009
NEW: Nature
essay on the evolution of cognition by Johan Bolhuis and
Clive Wynne:
Bolhuis, J.J. &
Wynne, C.D.L. (2009) Can evolution explain how minds work?
Nature, 458, 832-833.
The paper also features
in the Nature
podcast
Nature has published replies by Shettleworth, Wolpert, De
Waal and Marks, and it has opened a Nature
Network Opinion Forum Discussion
New: Tinbergen's Legacy. Function and Mechanism
in Behavioral Biology, edited by Johan J. Bolhuis and Simon
Verhulst. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
New: Animal
Behaviour, edited by Johan J.
Bolhuis and Luc-Alain Giraldeau. Sage Publications, 2010. A
4-volume reader with classic and modern papers in
behavioural biology.
Helmholtz Lectures
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11-12-2009
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Helmholtz Lecture, Eli Peli
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