On 13 October 2003, Professor Peter Hagoort (1954) was awarded the Dr. Hendrik Muller Prize by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

According to the Academy, Professor Hagoort, Director of the F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging at Nijmegen (which opened last year), plays an important role in a relatively new branch of science. The discipline of cognitive neuroscience emerged with the arrival of such techniques as fMRI, which makes it possible to study 'the brain in action'. The Academy awards the EUR 25,000 biennial prize for special achievement in the behavioural or social sciences.