Department Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences

Advancing Knowledge on Human Behaviour and Cognition

The Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences assembles researchers from psychology, cognitive sciences, and economics. Our goal is to understand fundamental aspects of human cognition and behaviour, and how these relate to societal and individual-level challenges.

A glimpse into DBCS

Three institutes, 11 laboratories

Our research is organized in three research institutes and 11 research groups, covering a wide spectrum of topics related to health and behaviour, cognitive science and assessment, and lifespan development, family, and culture. We also employ a broad variety of empirical methods. We run the EPSYLON laboratory network of 11 shared labs with state-of-the-art experimental set-up ranging from EEG and psychophysiology to media- and user labs for human-computer interaction research.

Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences in numbers

  • 3
    Institutes
  • 4
    Study Programmes
  • 11
    labs in laboratory network

News & events

Upcoming events organised by the Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences