The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) (Dutch: Nederlands Herseninstituut) is a research institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) that carries out neuroscience research with special emphasis on the brain and visual system.

Delleman and the systematic functional analysis of the visual system initiated by Prof H. Spekreijse made the institute an internationally recognized centre in vision research.

In the late nineties the research objective focused increasingly on the functioning of the visual system and its relation to the brain.

[4] The institute host several two-photon excitation microscopy setups to perform in vivo brain imaging at the cellular and sub-cellular level, high density EEG labs, multi-electrode recording systems.

Additionally, the NIN is a stakeholder in the Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging, which hosts 3T and 7T MRI systems for human neuroscience.