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Join the ReproPsy & e-ReproNim Fellowship Programmes!

Are you passionate about robust, rigorous, and transparent research practices in Psychology and/or Neuroimaging? Do you want up to €1,000 to fund training to enhance your skills in software and data management? Do you want to join a vibrant community of practice? Look no further!

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Senior scientist position (tenured) in computational modelling in psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland

The position is full-time and tenured, and provides the opportunity for building an independent research team. Candidates must have excellent credentials in building and testing computational models that implement theoretical assumptions about psychological processes. They should have a strong interest in applying formal modeling as a tool for theory building and testing in several areas of psychological inquiry.  

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PhD or Postdoctoral position in Cognitive Science: Language and Methods Lab at the University of Potsdam, Germany

We are looking for a highly motivated PhD candidate (or Post-doc) with an interest in language production / learning and expertise in designing behavioural experiments and/or computational models (naive discrimination learning, dynamic models).

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Early Career Publication Awards 2023

Early Career Publication Awards go to Caro Hautekiet (PhD award) for the paper “Accessibility of Information in the Focus of Attention: Heightened or Reduced?” and to Ven Popov (post-doc award) for the paper “Intent matters: Resolving the intentional versus incidental learning paradox in episodic long-term memory”. Congratulations!

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ESLP

The conference series on Embodied and Situated Language Processing has provided since 2007 a forum for interdisciplinary discussions on linguistic processing in embodied and situated settings. This year’s hybrid conference will follow along these lines by offering an informal and stimulating environment to boost research discussions between established and early career researchers.

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CFP Announcement for Journal of Cognitive Science

Journal of Cognitive Science is an official journal of the International Association for Cognitive Science and the Institute for Cognitive Science at Seoul National University. It is published quarterly by the Institute for Cognitive Science at Seoul National University, located in Seoul, Korea.

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The 2023 Call for Postdoctoral Fellowships within the European Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions, University of Porto, Portugal

The goal of MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, inter-sectoral and interdisciplinary mobility.

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Obituary: Marilou Vandierendonck (1945-2023)

Obituary: Marilou Vandierendonck (1945-2023)

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PhD Fellowship - Affective Neurosciences, UQTR, Trois-Rivières, Canada

We invite applications for a PhD research fellowship in Psychology in the field of affective neuroscience at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (Québec, Canada), under my direction. Our laboratory offers a unique and dynamic environment to explore how the brain analyzes and processes emotional information with a social-cognitive-emotional perspective. If you are passionate about research in these areas, we encourage you to apply.

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PhD position, Behavioural and neural correlates underlying spoken language production, Univeriste Cote d'Azur, Nice, France

Our ability to put thoughts into words is one of the most fascinating aspects of human cognition. Although speaking seems effortless, it is the result of very complex processes carried out by the brain within a few hundred milliseconds. This complex neurocognitive machinery remains highly debated, and the current project aims to characterise the structure, parameters and neural correlates of linguistic processes underlying spoken production.

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PhD position, Universität Innsbruck, Austria

PD position to investigate the measurement of action imagery ability in a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund. Starting October 2023, lasting 3 years, with an option to extend for another 1 year, 30 hours/week.

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Three postdoctoral positions, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy

We invite expressions of interest for three forthcoming postdoctoral positions in the context of the ERC Consolidator Project BraveNewWord. The project, led by Marco Marelli at the University of Milano-Bicocca, aims at investigating the semantic side of novel word processing in adult speakers, with an interdisciplinary approach combining experimental psychology, computational linguistics and cognitive neuroscience. 

 

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Two PhD vacancies on bilingualism in conversation in Warsaw, University of Warsaw, Poland

The Faculty of Psychology, University of Warsaw, is accepting applications for full-time Ph.D. students for a period of a maximum of four years. The position is part of the OPUS 23 grant, which aims to investigate how bilinguals in naturalistic conversations easily switch between their languages to achieve effective and successful communication.

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MSc in Cognitive Systems, Open University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

To teach the new paradigm of cognitive computing, the M.Sc. Program in Cognitive Systems brings together two main scientific areas: Cognitive Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence in Computer Science. Courses are offered from both Cognitive Psychology (CP) and Computer Science (CS), organised in five main themes: Foundations, Perception, Learning, Reasoning, Systems.

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Lab Research Technician, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA

The Learning and Brain Development Lab is seeking a Laboratory Research Technician who will contribute to multiple aspects of research projects examining the development of attention and learning among infants, children, and adults. The Laboratory Research Technician will work as part of a team comprised of graduate students and undergraduate research assistants and will coordinate day-to-day operations of the lab.

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Workshop on Nonlinear Methods for Psychological and Social Sciences

Lüneburg, Germany
17-21 July 2023

This workshop provides the theoretical background, as well as hands-on training in R for some of the most popular and broadly-applicable nonlinear analysis methods for the application in psychology and the social sciences. 

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Two tenure-track faculty positions in Cognitive Science/Neuroscience at the Faculty of Psychology University of Coimbra, Portugal

The Faculty of Psychology at the University of Coimbra is hiring 2 tenure/tenure-track (1 Associate and 1 Assistant) Professors in Cognitive Neuroscience, as part of a transformative ERA Chair grant CogBooster, led by Alfonso Caramazza. 

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Associate or Assistant professor in experimental psychology, Institute of Psychology, Lausanne, Switzerland

Requirements: proven research record in the field of affective, emotional or cognitive sciences, expertise in psychological research methodology, particularly quantitative experimental methods.

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Postdoctoral Research Associate, Northeastern University, Boston, USA

Susanne Jaeggi and Aaron Seitz are seeking to hire a diverse group of 6 interdisciplinary post-doctoral researchers to join their new group in Northeastern’s Center for Cognitive and Brain Health.

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MSc Applied Neuroscience, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK

Your chance to gain a unique insight into the ways that Neuroscience techniques can be used in real world settings – with hands-on experience across a range of applied neuroscience techniques, taught by leading researchers.

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Language Circle 2023

The Max Planck Research Group Language Cycles invites you to the Language Circle 2023. This series of talks will be held virtually via zoom and in person at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany.

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AMLaP23, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing

Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
31 August - 2 September 2023

We are pleased to announce the AMLaP 29 conference, Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing. We look forward to welcoming you to this exciting scientific event that will take place in a beautiful city on the Basque coast. 

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Current Issues in Mind-Wandering Research – Theoretical Advances and New Empirical Findings

Heidelberg, Germany
6-8 July 2023

We are happy to announce that we will be hosting an international meeting for mind-wandering researchers at Heidelberg University in July 2023.

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2023 Bertelson Award Winner

The ESCoP Committee has selected Dr. Eliana Vassena from the Behavioral Science Institute at Radboud University to receive the Bertelson Award for 2023. Dr. Vassena will give the Bertelson Award Lecture at the 2023 conference in Porto. Congratulations!

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The 26th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

New York, USA
22-25 June 2023

We are pleased to announce that the 26th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness will be held at New York University. The keynote speakers will be Professors Yoshua Bengio (Montreal), Joseph LeDoux (NYU, Presidential Address), May-Britt Moser (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Thomas Nagel (NYU, Emeritus), and Doris Tsao (Berkeley).

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IWORDD 2023 - International Workshop on Reading and Developmental Dyslexia

Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
7-9 June 2023

The fourth edition of iWORDD will offer the research community the opportunity to get a broad overview of the current theories underlying research in the field and of the methodological challenges faced, while helping outline future directions in the investigation of developmental dyslexia. Our aim with this workshop is to promote exchange of ideas between world-class dyslexia experts through talks and debates, and facilitate transfer of knowledge between practitioners and scientists. 

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The results of ESCoP elections

It is our pleasure to announce that Michał Wierzchoń has been elected as the new President-elect (2023-2024), and Beatriz Bermúdez-Margaretto and Yoav Kessler have been elected Committee members (2023-2026).

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The Journal of Cognition is now indexed and ranked in Scopus!

The Journal of Cognition is now indexed and ranked in Scopus! With a debut CiteScore of 7.1, the journal ranks 12 out of 150 in the Experimental and Cognitive Psychology category.

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ESCoP Conference 2023

6-9 September 2023
Porto, Portugal

It is our great pleasure to announce that the 23rd meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP) will be held in Porto (Portugal), hosted by the Center for Psychology from the University of Porto. 

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Early Career Publication Awards 2022

Early Career Publication Awards go to Daniele Gatti (PhD award) for the paper “Decomposing the Semantic Processes Underpinning Veridical and False Memories” and to Anna Förster (post-doc award) for the paper “The Human Cognitive System Corrects Traces of Error Commission on the Fly.” Congratulations!

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Science for Ukraine

The global community has created a continuously updated list of laboratories that can host displaced Ukrainian scientists at all career levels. You can browse the list or add your information.

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Science for Ukraine: ESCoP

ESCoP aims to help researchers from Ukraine who need support - e.g. finding hosting labs, information on funding options, mentoring, and/or matching with PIs and labs in our field. Please contact ESCoP Secretary in case you need help yourself, or know someone who needs help/may need help in the future.

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