We are looking for a highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Associate to join Dr Angela de Bruin's research group in the Department of Psychology at the University of York. The Research Associate would be working on a project funded by the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government's Horizon Europe funding Guarantee for selected ERC grants, examining multilingual language control and use in younger and older adults. The current part of the project aims to understand how context, in particular the conversation partner's language behavior, influences how multilinguals of different ages produce and use their languages. 

Crete, Greece
27-30 October 2025

This Brain Conference will bring together a unique and interdisciplinary group of internationally recognised experts in evolutionary biology, computational cognitive neuroscience, developmental psychology, systems neuroscience, genetics/epigenetics and clinical psychiatry, to promote synthesis and synergy between the computational, social and life sciences to advance knowledge about the adaptive mind.

Human cognition is highly adaptive and can reason flexibly with new information. A crucial element for this is our working memory: a quick, reliable, and flexible system to maintain information temporarily, as needed, when needed. The goal of this project is to advance the understanding of how working memory is implemented in the human brain. To this end, the main objective is to develop a neural model of human working memory.