In spoken interactions, face-to-face meetings are often preferred. This is because the human face is highly expressive and can facilitate coordinated interactions. Embodied conversational agents with expressive faces therefore have the potential for smoother interactions than voice assistants. However, knowledge of how the face expresses these social signals – the “language” of facial expressions – is limited, with no coherent modelling framework.

This ambitious project aims to mathematically model the human face as an algebraic generator of dynamic social signals and build a psychologically and culturally valid generative model of social face signalling that is transferable to social robots. 

As part of the continued development of the School of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen, applications are invited for two Lectureship posts on the Teaching and Research (T&R) career track. The candidates must have a track record of outstanding independent research, as evidenced by high quality publications in leading academic journals and have interests which extend any of the School’s existing research strengths.

We are looking for applicants for a two-year (potentially three-year) postdoctoral position at Ghent University to work with us on the ERC project CoCoFlex, investigating the contextual modulation and selective reinforcement of cognitive flexibility. Candidates should have a PhD and, ideally, have a background in research on cognitive flexibility, cognitive control, reinforcement learning, or decision making. We are mostly interested in studying behaviour, in combination with computational modeling or fMRI. However, depending on the interests and strengths of the candidate, other methods can be considered as well. 

We are seeking two highly motivated Postdoctoral Research Associates to work on an international collaborative project that is developing novel frameworks for humans and AI agents to work as effective, collaborative teammates. The project brings together cutting-edge research from cognitive neuroscience, brain-computer interfaces, neural engineering and machine learning. The post holders will join Prof Nick Yeung’s Attention and Cognitive Control lab.

Applications are invited for a PhD student position (three years) on a DFG-funded project in the Biological Psychology of Decision Making Group headed by Gerhard Jocham. The lab investigates the neural and computational mechanisms of reward-guided learning and decision making in humans. The project is focused on how neuromodulators (GABA, glutamate, norepinephrine) control patch-leaving decisions by modulating cortical dynamics.

The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language offers Research Professors & Research Associates research fellow positions in seven main broad areas of research.

Applications are invited for a full-time post-doctoral position in the Psychology of Language and Bilingualism Lab at the Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. Knowledge of Polish is not required. The position is funded by the Polish National Science Centre grant Mechanisms of language control underlying bilingual speech production: fMRI investigation (PI: Dr. Zofia Wodniecka; Collaborators: Dr. Marcin Szwed and Dr. Jakub Szewczyk (Jagiellonian University & Donders Institute) and Dr. Michele Diaz (Penn State University, USA).

Online
14-17 June 2021

Linguistic data, be it oral, signed, audiovisual or written, is now available in unprecedented quantity due to progress in information technology. This provides new opportunities for large-scale, ecologically valid, real-time research. The virtual summer offers theoretical and hands-on training with novel research tools, such as corpus analysis, machine learning, multisite collaborative testing etc.

Online
9-10 September 2021

You are most welcome to attend the virtual workshop on mental effort. Registrants will have the opportunity to submit a motivational statement for participating in hands-on modeling tutorials covering a variety of techniques, including symbolic architecture & connectionist modeling, non-parametric Bayesian methods, dynamical systems, as well as reinforcement learning.

Online
17-18 May 2021

The workshop will be hosted by the Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa (PT). It will provide a platform for exchanging findings and latest insights on memory and attentional processing and how these may change in healthy and pathological ageing.

The University of Stuttgart offers a PhD position (75-100%) with focus on formal modeling and decomposition of cognitive load factors in learning scenarios. This includes the validation of model predictions with neurophysiological data. The position is located at the Department of Teaching and Learning with Intelligent Systems and connected to the International Research Training Group 2198 "Soft Tissue Robotics". We are part of the Cyber Valley initative, Europe's largest AI cluster that connects partners across science and industry.

The University of Stuttgart is currently looking for an Independent Research Group Leader (f/m/d) within the newly founded “Interchange Forum for Reflecting on Intelligent Systems” at the University of Stuttgart. The position is part of the Cyber Valley ecosystem, Europe’s largest research consortium in the field of artificial intelligence with partners from science and ind

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 (UK). 

Online
22-27 August 2021

The conference will feature original research on all aspects of visual perception, regardless of the scientific discipline (e.g., vision science, psychology, neuroscience, biology, computer vision), addressing fundamental questions as well as applications.

19-20 May 2021
Online

This virtual symposium will feature oral presentations from researchers, clinicians and their students, as well as keynote addresses from Adrian M. Owen, PhD (Western University) and Antonio Zadra, PhD (Université de Montréal).

The Consciousness, Cognition & Computation Group of the Center for Research in Cognition & Neurosciences at the Université Libre de Bruxelles seeks applicants for a four-year Ph.D. position funded by the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research.

Rome, Italy: hybrid or online only, depending on the course of the pandemic
13-17 September 2021

The International Conference on Spatial Cognition (ICSC) is a triennial conference that is open to researchers from all space-related disciplines (cognitive psychology, neuropsychology, neuroscience, computational approaches, linguistics, philosophy of mind, etc.).

We are looking for a Social Psychologist, broadly defined, who uses an experimental approach to investigate human behaviour. The successful candidate will be an excellent researcher, teacher, mentor, and colleague. This position requires an earned doctorate in Psychology.

We are looking for a Cognitive Psychologist, broadly defined, who uses an experimental approach and works with human subjects.

Applications are invited for an Associate Professorship of Experimental Psychology based at the Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford.

The Donders Centre for Cognition (DCC), part of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, and the School of Artificial Intelligence invite applications for an Assistant Professor position in Computational Cognitive Science.

A postdoctoral position in the cognitive neuroscience of aging is available at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) to work with a research team including Professors Xiaoping Hu, Aaron Seitz, Ilana Bennett, and Weiwei Zhang at UCR, and in collaboration with Megan Peters at UC Irvine.

The position is involved in understanding structural and functional neural correlates related to emotional processing in aging and mental health.

The The University of British Columbia (UBC), Department of Psychology is inviting applications for a position as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Djavad Mowafaghian Center for Brain Health under the supervision of Dr. Catharine Winstanley and Dr. Luke Clark.

We are seeking to appoint two lecturers to complement our core research interests in the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of St Andrews.  

Kanwisher Lab is looking for a Technical Associate to help conduct research on the functional organization of the human brain using fMRI, (occasionally) intracranial recording, magnetoencephalography, eye tracking, behavior, and other methods. 

Online
1-4 June 2021

We invite talks (12 min + 3 min Q&A) on all topics germane to WM in any model system (eg, rodents, monkeys, humans) using any technique (eg, behavior, invasive / non-invasive ephys, fMRI, modeling, etc ). In keeping with the spirit of last year's meeting, presentation slots are limited to those with trainee status, including undergraduate / postgraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows.

The Department of Philosophy is accepting applications for a McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2021-2022 academic year in the Department’s program in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology (PNP).

Among the many issues that the COVID crisis has created, the impossibility of traveling and holding scientific meetings in person is hampering the creation and fostering of scientific networks, which are vital for the creativity of the community and for researchers to build their careers. This situation hits particularly hard on the more junior among us, for whom it is ever more important to talk to each other, showcase their work and build collaborations. With this in mind, ESCoP is happy to announce that it will support one or more online events organised by Early Career Researchers, for Early Career Researchers.

ESCoP is happy to announce that the deadline for proposals for the next ESCoP Summer School has been extended to the 15th of April 2021. Potential organizers are invited to send a proposal to the ESCoP Secretary, Evie Vergauwe. More information can be obtained from the ESCoP president, Andrea Kiesel.

We are looking for two full-time PhD student positions at Ghent University on the topics of cognitive control and reinforcement learning. Both are fully-funded four-year positions.

The DFG Research Training Group “Statistical Modeling in Psychology” (SMiP) offers 6 Positions (65% TV-L E13, 3 years) for its PhD Program.

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Researcher to work with Dr Nura Sidarus as part of the ESRC funded project “A Computational Approach to Understanding Maladaptive Cognition in Depression”, at Royal Holloway University of London.

The OWCPS is a weekly online seminar in Zoom featuring a presentation by a stellar cognitive psychologist followed by discussion open to anyone around the world.

ESCoP is proud to announce that the recipient of the Broadbent Prize 2021 is Antje Meyer (Radboud University and Max Planck Institute of Psycholinguistics).

The ESCoP Early Career Publication Award (€1000) is an award for the best article accepted for publication in 2020. 

We have an open research associate position to fill at the laboratory for Cognitive and Experi-mental Psychology at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Salary will be according to TVL-13; 75%. It is a fixed-term position for three years and is intended for candidates seek-ing a PhD. Starting date is approximately the 15th of April 2021.

The Basque Center on Cognition, Brain & Language offers research fellow positions in seven main broad areas of research.

Great opportunity for a post-doctoral researcher (ideally with a cognitive psychology background) to undertake collaborative experimental research focused on developing psychological interventions to reduce the impact of misinformation.

The Experimental Psychology laboratory, in the Department of Psychology, at the Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, is offering a position (beginning on April 1st, 2021 or later) as a: Scientific researcher / PhD candidate (m / w / d) Bes.-Gr . TV-L E13, 50%. The position is offered for three years.

The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language – BCBL is offering a predoctoral position to work on a funded research project aimed at investigating the functional and structural role of thalamocortical projections on typical and atypical reading (i.e., Dyslexia).

A postdoctoral position is available in the Neurosmog project in the Szwed lab in the department of Psychology at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland, to work on the impact of ambient air pollution on the developing brain in school-age children.

We have an open research associate position to fill at the laboratory for Cognitive and Experimental Psychology at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. Salary will be according to TVL-13; 75%. It is a fixed-term position for three years and is intended for candidates seek-ing a PhD. Starting date is approximately the 1st of April 2021.

The Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Warsaw will hire a postdoctoral researcher to work with Dr Aleksandra Mroczko-Wąsowicz on the interdisciplinary research project ‘Perceptual Objects in the Unimodal and Multimodal Settings’ funded by the National Science Centre, Poland.

Online
19-22 July 2021

We are pleased to announce ACTCON 2021, Würzburg Summer Module Course on Action Control. ACTCON 2021 will offer focused, in depth courses that advance participants' knowledge and skills to the current state of the art of experimental research on action control, including lectures and hot topic sessions and hands-on practical courses.

Following a £ 6.6m grant from Research England, Loughborough University is seeking to appoint a highly-motivated full-time Research Associate following the establishment of the Center for Mathematical Cognition (CMC).

Vienna, Austria
26 - 29 July 2021

There is currently a great deal of uncertainty about the likely state of the COVID-19 pandemic in July of 2021, including whether travel and large in-person events will be possible – and if so in what format.

Brixen-Bressanone, Italy
9-10 July 2021

The aim of the CSA is to set a conference where young scientists can disseminate their scientific contributions in a friendly and cooperative environment, and challenge the senior scientists in a fruitful debate. In particular, highly innovative research ideas as well as research-in-progress are encouraged.

Online
26-27 May 2021

APS will host a virtual conference that convenes psychological scientists from around the world, and features the latest research and luminaries in the field.

Online
13-16 March 2021

Experience CNS 2021 in a whole new virtual way with access to all meeting events, including keynote and award talks, symposia, data blitz talks, posters, exhibitors, and live chats during the 2021 conference, and limited later “on-demand” viewing.

The Department of Cognitive Psychology at the University of Würzburg offers a position for a Postdoctoral Researcher (1.0 FTE for 3 years). The planned research targets action representation and control in social interactions using behavioural and electrophysiological (EEG, EMG) data.

Cardiff University School of Psychology is seeking to recruit up to five Lecturers or Senior Lecturers to contribute to the teaching, research and impact portfolio of our school.

Scientific research in the SFB (“Register”) third-party funded project with the title “Situation-register congruence meets morphosyntax and verb-argument violations: real-time and post-sentence comprehension”.

As part of the German Excellence Strategy, the Field of Focus 4 at Heidelberg University aims to fill a 75-100% position for 2 years from February 2021 onwards (or soon thereafter): Academic Manager of Laboratory for Neurocognitive Foundations of Self-regulation and Regulation Process (w/m/d).

The ULB Neuroscience Institute (UNI) comprises more than 200 scientists grouped into 24 research groups. It offers a dynamic and diverse research environment in all fields of brain research, from molecular and cellular neurobiology, to systems, cognitive, and clinical neurosciences.

The IMPRS for Language Sciences invites applications for two fellowships that are fully funded by the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science. 

The Department of Psychology invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level, to commence July 1, 2021. The candidate will be expected to teach courses in neuroscience and related areas (e.g., Neuropsychology, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience).

Our research-driven program explores cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and neuro-modelling. Taught in close cooperation with the École Normale Supérieure and Aarhus University, the program combines lectures with practical training at prominent laboratories in Moscow and at international partner institutions.

TCU is pleased to offer a postdoctoral fellowship committed to enhancing our strong teacher-scholar model, which emphasizes the creation and dissemination of knowledge in equal measure. This fellowship, which may last up to two years, is designed to promote diversity and support stellar scholars who are committed to research and teaching.

We are looking for a motivated PhD student to conduct research in the field of cognitive control under the supervision of Eva Van den Bussche. 

We are all hoping that by next summer we will be over the worst of the pandemic. Nevertheless, there is still much uncertainty about how the situation will develop until then. Therefore, together with the organizing team in Lille, the ESCoP Executive Committee decided to postpone the next conference to the summer of 2022. The conference will still take place in Lille, just one year later. After that we will move back into our old 2-year cycle, with the following conference in 2023.

Online
13-17 April 2021

To protect from COVID-19 & due to travel restrictions, our 8th annual SAS conference will be fully virtual!

As part of a DFG-funded project (Olfactory associative memory: How and when odours bind to events) we are offering a scientific researcher position.

Can unconscious thought boost lie detection accuracy? This special issue in Frontiers in Psychology aims to formalise this debate with two target articles taking contrasting views.

The unit of cognitive psychology (Prof. Dr. Tilo Strobach) is offering a three-year PhD position (65 %) focused on ”Cognitive training effects across the adult lifespan: A diffusion modelling approach".

The Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) is offering a four-year PhD studentship position focused on “the role of the hippocampus in statistical learning”. 

Rome, Italy: hybrid or online only, depending on the course of the pandemic
13-17 September 2021

The Cognitive Psychology Unit at Leiden University (the Netherlands) invites applications for an assistant professor position with a preferred start date between the 1st of November 2020 and the 1st of February 2020.

A postdoc position is available at the Action-Perception Laboratory, University of Verona, Italy for a brain-stimulation project on the sense of agency.

The One World Cognitive Psychology Seminar is a weekly online seminar in Zoom.

The ESCoP Early Career Publication Award for Post-docs 2020  was given to Freek van Ede from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (the Netherlands). 

The ESCoP Early Career Publication Award for PhD students 2020 was given to Pieter Verbeke from Ghent University (Belgium).

The 2021 Bertelson Award goes to Dr. Roland Pfister (University of Würzburg, Germany). 

We offer the following position: Automatic recognition and generation of Cued Speech using deep learning.

The Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (Department of Music) has a vacancy for a PhD candidate in a project on music and eye-tracking.

We are conducting a systematic review and a meta-analysis of experiments that used priming as a method to examine how different variables influence the creative performance of individuals.

Kraków, Poland
25-27 August 2021

The 2021 FENS Regional Meeting in Kraków has two goals: to bring together presentations of the latest advances in neuroscience and to create opportunities for building collaborative networks.

Do you want to join our effort to optimize the communication with, and the social inclusion of children with hearing impairment?

The Psychology Department at the University of Hildesheim offers 2 PhD Positions (50% TV-L E13, 2.5/3 years) starting in October 2020. The positions are part of the General (Cognitive) Psychology laboratory, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Christina Bermeitinger.

A 3-year PhD scholarship is available at the Université de Montréal under the supervision of Dr. Benjamin Pageaux and Dr. Pierre Rainville. Applicants should have, or anticipate having, a MSc and a strong research background in motor and/or cognitive performance.

We are delighted to announce that the 22nd meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology will be held in Lille (France) on the 29 August - 1 September 2021. The event will be hosted by the Cognitive & Affective Science laboratory from the University of Lille .

The  BCBL is offering a predoctoral position to work on a PhD funded project to investigate metacognitive functions using real-time functional MRI. The PhD student will join the Consciousness group at the BCBL to work under the supervision of David Soto.

The BCBL is offering a predoctoral position to work on a PhD funded project to investigate the effects of bilingualism on language development in the first years of life. The PhD student will join the Infant Language and Cognition group at the BCBL to work under the supervision of Dr. Marina Kalashnikova.

August 6-8, 2020
Registration is now open.

The International Neuroethics Society (INS) and the International Youth Neuroscience Association (IYNA) are pleased to announce a call for submissions for the Neuroethics Essay Contest in 2020. Now in its seventh year, the contest aims to promote interest in neuroethics among students and trainees around the world.

In 2015, the Best Illusion of the Year Contest became an annual online event, with the goal of bringing the creativity of the illusion creator community all around the world. Anybody with an internet connection can now participate!

BCBL offers Research Professor & Research Associate positions in seven main broad areas or research.

The position is a full-time, six year (non-tenure track) research only position (although teaching can be arranged if of interest for the candidate) which is designed to bridge the time between the first or second postdoc and a first proper faculty position.

The Psychonomic Society is pleased to announce that its annual meeting in November will now be fully virtual.

You will prepare a PhD in the field of decision-making and decision confidence. Its starting point is that people continuously evaluate whether their decisions are correct or not. For example, when a medical doctor is unsure whether a patient is healthy or not, she can recommend additional screening.

The Department of Psychology at the University of Freiburg offers 1 PhD Position (65% TV-L E13, 3 years) starting in October 2020. The position is located in the work group on Cognition, Action and Sustainability under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Andrea Kiesel.

The School of Social Sciences at the University of Mannheim invites applications for the position of an Assistant Professor (W1) in Psychological Methods with Specialization in Statistical Modeling of Psychological Processes (non-tenure track) starting on the 1st of February 2021.

The University of Trento, in collaboration with the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, announces the 36th cycle of the Doctoral Programme in “Cognitive Science” for the 2020-2021 academic year.

The Laboratory of Developmental Psychology and Child Education is seeking to appoint a tenured research engineer (‘Ingénieur de Recherche’) funded by the CNRS. 

Our Master’s Program is accepting applications for the academic year 2020-2021 from international applicants.

The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) offers  Research Professors & Research Associates positions in three main broad areas or research.

We invite applications for a doctoral (PhD) position (60%, 4 years) in the Cognition lab at the University of Zurich, starting in September / October, 2020.

Are you working on a project or thesis related to mental effort? If so, we are inviting you to submit a 250-word abstract.

The Comm4CHILD project is hiring two PhD candidates/Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs).

There is an opening for a three-years postdoc to work on the dynamics of visual working memory at Utrecht University.

In this PhD project, we will critically re-evaluate the role of preparatory activity in attentional selection, developing a paradigm that dissociates attention-related signals from cue- and task-related signals.

U Leuven is looking for a motivated PhD student in the field of decision making and decision confidence. The position entails 2/3 of academic research and 1/3 of teaching duties, therefore candidates should be fluent in Dutch.

Ghent University is looking for two full-time PhD student positions on the topics of cognitive control, decision making, and reinforcement learning. Both are four-year positions (provided positive periodic evaluation), preferably starting in October 2020 or earlier.

21 April - 26 May 2020
Online (Zoom)

As conferences and guest speaker invitations are being canceled around the world and information about Corona dominates our minds, we are probably all starting to miss some good old cognitive psychology.

The Comm4CHILD project is hiring 15 PhD candidates / Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) in different domains united around the effort to optimizing the communication with, and social inclusion of children with hearing impairment.

Applications are invited for one postdoctoral researcher position in cognitive development, with flexible start date between September 2020 and February 2021.

1-4 June 2020

Edward Ester and colleagues propose a virtual meeting to provide a venue for trainees to present their work and network with like-minded scientists. More generally, this meeting is intended as an intellectually stimulating, collegial, fun, and enlightening way for all participants to share their recent findings and keep up with peers despite social distancing!

The Padova Neuroscience Center is delighted to announce its second call for about 12 fully funded PhD fellowships in Neuroscience at the University of Padova.

Two PhD positions are available within an exciting ERC-funded project on “Preparing memories for action: how visual working memories are sculpted by their anticipated use”, headed by Principal Investigator Freek van Ede.

We are looking for an assistant or associate professor with persuasiveness who is willing and able to contribute in a positive and transparent way to teaching and research at the Institute of Psychology, and the Cognitive Psychology Unit in particular. 

Heidelberg, Germany
30 August - 11 September 2020

Rationality is central to many scientific disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, and economics. This may suggest that research in these fields is conducted in close concert. But unfortunately, researchers from these disciplines are traditionally entrenched in separate academic sub-cultures and rarely collaborate and learn from one another.

The SMiP group is a transregional collaboration of twelve renowned behavioral researchers from five German universities: University of Mannheim, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, University of Koblenz-Landau at Landau, and Eberhard Karls University Tübingen.

The School of Psychology at the University of Aberdeen has tow fully-funded PhD studentships on offer.

The Paul Bertelson Award is granted every two years to an outstanding young scientist for making a significant contribution to European Cognitive Psychology. A committee of peers rates each candidate on the candidate's general scientific achievements, the international character of the candidate's work, and the range and the outstanding character of the candidate's contribution.

The ESCoP Early Career Publication Award is an award for the best article accepted for publication in 2019.

The Journal of Cognition invites proposals for Special Research Collections, similar to special issues of traditional print journals. Special Research Collections should focus on an important topic within the scope of the journal, and should include at least three manuscripts (typically 3-6 contributions) with corresponding authors from at least three different universities.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and creative Post-doc to work on our project  LOSTME (PTDC/PSI/ESP/30958/2017) with Dr. Moreno I. Coco (PI, University of East London) and Dr. Ana Raposo (CO-PI, University of Lisbon) for a period of 12 months (renewable to 13 months) paid 1600€ (one thousand six hundred euros) gross per month.

Kyoto, Japan
28 February-3 March 2021

The field of brain stimulation continues to undergo remarkable growth. Brain stimulation methods are rapidly transforming research on brain mechanisms, from the molecular to the behavioural, and offer new approaches to therapeutics for brain disorders.

Burgundy, France
6-17 September 2020

The forthcoming NeuroBridges 2020 will be a ten-day summer school. Students will attend lectures delivered by a group of leading neuroscientists, experimentalists, as well as theoreticians, which will address the fundamental questions in the field of decision making. 

Budapest, Hungary
1-4 July 2020

We welcome symposium, oral presentation, and poster submissions reporting studies from all fields of cognitive, affective and social neuroscience.

Tel-Aviv, Israel 
15 -18 June 2020

The Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness is the prime international conference for those who are interested in the scientific study of consciousness.

A postdoc position is available to work with Michael Pitts at Reed College, Portland Oregon, USA, and Liad Mudrik at Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel (location flexible in one of the two labs).

Full-time Postdoctoral and PhD Positions are Currently Available at the Visual Attention and Cognition Lab of Dr. Amit Yashar at The University of Haifa.

A funded PhD position is available in the Movement Sciences lab with Dr. Jason Friedman, in the field of human motor control, on the topic of enhancing motor learning. 

An exciting opportunity to join a new research group studying the cognitive mechanisms involved in skilled reading (in adults), as well as the development of children’s reading skills.

Cracow, Poland
9 - 10 May 2020

The Cracow Cognitive Science Conference is an annual event organized by the Jagiellonian University’s Cognitive Science Student Association

The Junior Researcher Programme (JRP) is currently looking for six engaged Ph.D. students and postdoctoral researchers in psychology to become Research Supervisors for the 2020 jSchool.

St Andrews, Scotland
28 June - 18 July 2020

We bring together a variety of thinkers interested in the study of mind, cognition, and intelligence for several weeks of transdisciplinary exploration.

Frankfurt, Germany    
16-17 July 2020    

We are very pleased to announce the call for abstract submissions to the second conference on “Music and Eye-tracking“, which will be held at the Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, Germany.

We seek candidates for an open PhD student position at the laboratory for Cognitive and Experimental Psychology at Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany. 

The Comm4CHILD Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network is hiring 15 PhD candidates / Early-Stage Researchers in different domains united around the effort to optimise the communication with, and social inclusion of children with hearing impairment.

This unique program trains researchers interested in a scientific career, or those interested in leading positions that require a scientific, quantitative and critical approach to human behaviour.

We are pleased to invite you to apply for our Master’s program in Psychology "Cognitive Sciences and Technologies: From Neuron to Cognition”. 

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral researcher position, with flexible starting date in the Working memory, Cognition and Development lab at the University of Geneva.

The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) offers research fellow positions in three main broad areas or research.

Bologna, Italy
23 -25 April 2020

The 4th MIC Conference 2020 is jointly organized by the International Society for the Study of Creativity and Innovation (ISSCI) and the Marconi Institute for Creativity (MIC), in the year that marks the 125th anniversary of the invention of radio by Guglielmo Marconi (1895-2020)!

SISSA is an elite postgraduate research institution located in Trieste, Italy, and focused on Maths, Physics and Neuroscience. It operates in English: many among its students and faculty are not Italian.

The Master of Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience of the University of Granada in Spain will be accepting applications for admission (1st phase) from the 8th until the 31st of Jan 2020. 

We invite applications for a doctoral position in the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 1410) Hybrid Societies – Humans Interacting with Embodied Technologies at Chemnitz University of Technology.

We invite applications for a doctoral position in the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC 1410) Hybrid Societies – Humans Interacting with Embodied Technologies at Chemnitz University of Technology.

Äkäslompolo, Finnish Lapland
5-8 April 2020

LaP is a small, highly interactive cross-disciplinary meeting that connects psychological and neuroscience research on the mechanisms of learning and brain plasticity.

Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, HSE, Moscow, is seeking postdoctoral fellows.

We are inviting applications to three positions, two PhD students and a postdoctoral fellow, to the newly established international Laboratory of Social Neuroscience (LSN) at Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.

Leiden University, Cognitive Psychology Unit of the Institute of Psychology at Leiden University and the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC) are looking for a highly talented researcher for a Postdoc Position in Cognitive Neuroscience.

Granada, Spain
5-6 June 2020

The Consortium of European Research on Emotion (CERE) is an informal organisation showcasing the latest research on emotion across Europe and beyond. 

The Learning and Cognitive Control Lab at Ghent University is recruiting two postdoctoral fellows. The positions are funded by a European Research Council Advanced Grant, “Cracking the Anterior Cingulate Cortex Code: Toward a Unified Theory of ACC Function”.

We seek candidates for an open PhD student position at the laboratory for Cognitive and Experimental Psychology at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany.

To expand internationally and to increase its level of excellence, UNI offers an International PhD Program in Neuroscience.

The Master's program aims to provide specialized, comprehensive and rigorous training in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language.

There are currently two vacancies at the faculty of psychology and educational sciences, ULB,  the first in Psychology and Cognitive Neuropsychology, the second in Neuropsychology and Speech Therapy.

The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language is offering a predoctoral position to work on a funded research project aimed at investigating the functional and structural role of thalamocortical projections on typical and atypical reading (i.e., Dyslexia).

The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language is offering a predoctoral position to work on a funded research project aimed at investigating the functional and structural role of thalamocortical projections on typical and atypical reading (i.e., Dyslexia).

Nijmegen, the Netherlands
3-5 June 2020

The aim of the biannual IMPRS conference series on Interdisciplinary Approaches in the Language Sciences is to inspire the next generation of language scientists to take on new challenges that will further our understanding of human language ability.

Dr. Angela de Bruin and Prof. Beth Jefferies are inviting applications for a fully funded PhD position on cognitive ageing and language production.

The Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Geneva, Switzerland has an opening for a tenure-track full time position, open rank.

The Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences at the University of Geneva, Switzerland has an opening for a tenure-track full time position, open rank.

The positions are part of the Collaborative Research Centre "Crossmodal Learning" of the University of Hamburg and four partner universities and research institutes in Beijing.

The Learning and Cognitive Control Lab is a highly motivated PhD student for a 4-year position at the Department of Experimental Psychology, Ghent University. The position is funded by an ERC Advanced Grant.

The International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Language Sciences is offering one fully-funded PhD Fellowship for four years (2020-2024) with a preferred start-date of 1 September 2020. 

ESCoP is happy to announce the open call for proposals for the next ESCoP Summer School!

In several fields of psychology, MPT models have proved to be powerful tools to disentangle different cognitive processes contributing to the same observable responses. This two-day workshop on MPT modeling will be largely application-oriented.

The Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities has published the call for PhD Students 2019.

The Department of Computer Science at the Faculty of Science of the University of Helsinki invites applications for a Professor or Assistant/Associate Professor in Artificial And Human Intelligence. 

The special issue aims to collect well-designed, well-powered research on the social modulation of perception-action coupling to better understand the potential top-down effects of high-level social variables on representing others’ actions and tasks.

We seek a full-time project manager for the administration and organisation of the EU funded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network Comm4CHILD “Communication for Children with Hearing Impairment to optimize Language Development”.

C. Shawn Green (UW-Madison), Aaron Seitz (UC-Riverside) and Susanne Jaeggi (UC-Irvine) are seeking to hire a postdoctoral researcher to work on a project funded by the National Institute on Aging.

Brixen, Italy
7-8 February 2020

The aim of the CSA is to set a conference where young scientists can disseminate their scientific contributions in a friendly and cooperative environment, and challenge the senior scientists in a fruitful debate. 

SLSP is a yearly conference series aimed at promoting and displaying excellent research on the wide spectrum of statistical methods that are currently in use in computational language or speech processing.

In this special issue, we will concentrate on direct and conceptual replications specifically in the field of numerical cognition and mathematics learning.

The BCBL invites applications for four 4-year full-time Ph.D positions in Cognitive Neuroscience funded by the Spanish Ministry of Innovation and Universities, within the call “Ayudas Predoctorales Severo Ochoa 2019” (to be opened in the fall 2019).

The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language is offering a postdoctoral position focused on the neurobiological basis of predictive processing and statistical learning.

We are seeking a highly motivated full‐time PhD student for a project aimed at understanding the self in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The research will be under the supervision of prof. dr. Roeljan Wiersema and in collaboration with prof. dr. Marcel Brass.

Targeted project start is October, 1st, 2019; the contract is limited to three years.

The position is part of the newly established distributed Research Unit „Binding and Retrieval in Action Control“, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG FOR 2790),

We are pleased to announce the seventh edition of the Rovereto Attention Workshop - RAW 2019. The goal of RAW is to provide a unique forum for researchers from a range of perspectives to come together to discuss their research and develop new directions and collaborations.

The Institute of Psychology at the Alpen-Adria University of Klagenfurt in Austria invites applications for the following position within the Cognitive Psychology Unit Research Group; Prof. Dr. Stephan Dickert): Senior Scientist (PostDoc) (100%, 40h/week).

We invite you to take part in a 10-minute online questionnaire focusing on research practices in psychological research, by University College London, U.K. We are interested in factors that influence research practices.

We seek a PhD student as part of our research group on self-control in value-based decisions. The position is available from October 2019 or later. The position is initially available for 2 years, with an option for an extension of 1 more year.

The Crockett Lab at Yale has a postdoctoral position available to begin Fall 2019 or Spring/Summer 2020 (start date flexible). The position is for one year initially and renewable for up to three.

The William K. and Katherine W. Estes Fund invites proposals to fund advanced training opportunities in mathematical and computational modeling for psychological science in summer schools or focused workshops.

The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language offers permanent research positions for Group Leaders in three main broad areas or research: Language, reading and developmental disorders; Multilingualism and second language learning; Neurodegeneration, brain damage and healthy aging.

We seek candidates for a Ph.D. position in cognitive psychology (3 years, full time, starting on the 1st of October 2019) at the Laboratoire d'Etude de l'Apprentissage et du Développement (Laboratory for Research on Learning and Development). 

Timing Research Forum (TRF2) is the second international conference dedicated to multidisciplinary research on timing and time perception. TRF2 builds upon the massive success of TRF1 held in Strasbourg, France in October 2017 that was attended by 250+ scientists with a shared passion for understanding timing and time perception through varied experimental, computational and clinical approaches.

We seek candidates as scientific employees for two PhD positions (m/f) in Cognitive Psychology (65% part-time, TV-L 13, duration: 3 years, starting point: September, 1st, 2019) at the Department of General Psychology II, Institute of Psychology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena.

The Centre for Change and Complexity in Learning (C3L) is based in the Teaching Innovation Unit. The primary purpose of the C3L is to pursue research that will facilitate and lead to the adoption of innovative education models that meet the needs of the future learner.

The scientific programme of WORKLOAD 2019 will consist of regular and technical contributions reviewed and selected by an international programme committee, as well as keynote talks given by leading experts in their fields.

An NICHD-funded postdoctoral fellowship for up to 3 years is available immediately, until filled, in Nelson Cowan’s laboratory on working memory and its development from the elementary school years through early adulthood.

We are currently conducting a meta-analysis investigating affective influences on the congruency-effect in tasks like Stroop, Simon and so on. If you have any unpublished data that might be relevant, we would highly appreciate if you get in contact with us.

One predoctoral fellowship is offered to individuals with a background in cognitive neuroscience or psychology and with experience in research on language and speech perception and/or production.

One postdoctoral position is offered to individuals holding a PhD in cognitive neuroscience or psychology and with experience in research on language and speech perception and/or production.

We are hiring a PhD student for a period of 36 months to work on the ANR-DFG (FRAL2019) project ‘Phonological Networks in Language Production and Comprehension (PhoNet)’.

Nice, France
12 July 2019

Spatialization is the process by which spatial information is added by the cognitive system to process information, often resulting in what is called a mental line.

The DFG Research Training Group 2386 “Extrospection. External access to higher cognitive processes” offers five research positions for doctoral candidates.

The postdoctoral positions announced will be part of a large international project on the neuroscience and philosophy of free will, where some 20 neuroscientists and philosophers will collaborate to explore the neural basis of volition, using experimental, theoretical and computational approaches.

Toruń, Poland
4-5 September 2019

The Conference focus on spatial cognition, abstract thinking and self-location. The event will explore the details of last year's Science publication ("Navigating Cognition: Spatial codes for human thinking") and relate it to other topics in cognitive science.

Research project "The impact of arousal on cognitive function and cortical state"

We offer a four-year term position. Please submit online your application no later than the 30th of April 2019.

We are looking for a post-doc researcher to work in the team “Social cognition in human-robot interaction”  within the framework of the ERC grant “InStance”, at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa.

This workshop aims at bringing together experts in the field of Cognitive Control and Performance Monitoring, to honour the memory of Laurence Questienne, a bright researcher that abruptly passed away in May 2018.

Each position is supported by a grant. The supervisor of Doctoral students can be one of the approximately 60 faculty members, experienced researchers in different areas of psychology.

The school organised by the Donders Sleep & Memory Lab, based at the Donders Institute will explore the cognitive functions of sleep in a summer school. Topics covered include dreaming, memory consolidation, emotional processing, sleep medicine, and sleep research methods for all levels of expertise.

Join more than 2,500 of your colleagues at the Psychonomic Society's 60th Annual Meeting. Attendees are cognitive psychologists from over 40 countries, including some of the field’s most distinguished researchers, innovative early career investigators, and graduate students already making important scientific contributions. 

The Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence at Tilburg University has several openings for Assistant/Associate Professors.  The candidates are expected to contribute to the teaching in the bachelor/master program ‘Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence’ and/or the master program ‘Data Science and Society.’

We are seeking instructors from around the world to collaborate on an upcoming large field experiment that explores whether a commitment policy for student laptop use may improve the classroom experience. Professors who participate in this field experiment (with minimal time commitment), will become co-authors on the paper arising from the study. 

The conference explores all aspects of multilingualism in the fields of linguistics, psychology, neurology, sociology, and educational sciences. This year’s Keynote speakers include: Ludovica Serratrice (University of Reading, United Kingdom), Maria del Carmen Parafita Couto (Leiden University, The Netherlands), Theo Marinis (University of Konstanz, Germany), and Kristin Lemhöfer (Radboud University, The Netherlands).

At the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL), we are organizing the second edition of Brainhack Donostia, an event focused on neuroscience and the promotion of open-source resources in an accessible way across disciplines and experience levels. 

This is a call to recruit two centers for a Synergy grant to support the functioning of the Psychological Science Accelerator. 

We are looking for a motivated PhD student to conduct research in the field of cognitive control under the supervision of Eva Van den Bussche, Kobe Desender and Gethin Hughes. The position is for four years (provided positive periodic evaluation), preferably starting Nov 2019 or earlier.

The Psychonomic Society Mid-career Award is given for exceptional contributions to the field of experimental and cognitive psychology and related areas by an individual who is currently in the middle of their career.

The Psychonomic Society will confer scientific awards each year upon young scientists who have made significant contributions to scientific psychology early in their careers. The purpose of the awards is to raise the visibility of our science and of our very best young scientists within the field, within the awardees’ institutions, in the press, and in the larger community.

The open positions are integrated in research-oriented departments at the local universities and participate in the training program of the SMiP group. The training program starts in October 2019 and entails 6 semesters of courses, skill trainings and workshops instructed by renowned experts in the respective fields.

International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) is an elite postgraduate research institution located in Trieste, Italy, and focused on Maths, Physics and Neuroscience. It operates in English: many among its students and faculty are not Italian. The Cognitive Neuroscience Department hosts 7 research labs that study the neuronal bases of time and magnitude processing (Bueti), visual perception (Zoccolan), motivation and intelligence (Rumiati), language and reading (Crepaldi), tactile perception and learning (Diamond), neural computation (Treves), and inference (Mathys). 

The Helsinki Summer School in Cognition, Communication and the Brain focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to studying the neurocognitive underpinnings of topics in cognitive sciences, speech sciences and cognitive neuroscience using a wide variety of both electrophysiological (EEG, MEG, and EEG with TMS) and behavioural (e.g. Eye tracking and other psychophysiological methods) approaches.

University of Klagenfurt is establishing a Graduate School under the title ”Decision-making in a digital environment“ and offers 8 predoc scientist positions (30 h/week; limited to 36 months).

The Barcelona Summer School on Bi- and Multilingualism (BSBM) is an academic opportunity intended for post-graduate students and researchers interested in an updated overview of the field in an international academic context.

EuroCogSci 2019 aims at providing a platform for researchers working in cognitive science broadly understood — from Neuroscience to Psychology, Linguistics to AI, etc. — the event will feature plenary talks as well as invited symposia on robotics and cognitive development. 

A series of postdoctoral positions are available at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN) in Moscow. ICN is a dynamic and ambitious research institute with a growing international reputation of a and state-of-the-art equipment. 

A Master's Program in Cognitive Science is now open for international candidates at the National Research University - Higher School of Economics (HSE) in Moscow, Russia. This program is entirely taught in English.

Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Centre for Language and Brain, Higher School of Economics welcome you to the 25th Architectures and Mechanisms of Language Processing meeting (AMLaP). AMLaP is an international conference, which has established itself as the premier international forum for interdisciplinary research into how people process language. 

The Laboratory of Behavioural Neurodynamics (Saint Petersburg State University) is holding a 5-day-long comprehensive workshop on wide range of topics including the neurobiology and psychology of speech and language, human-animal communication, evolution of language faculty, language acquisition and development, speech production and disorders, and many others. Participation is free, but places are limited and registration is obligatory.

The Jacobs Foundation is pleased to announce the 2019 call for applications for its Research Fellowship Program. The Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program is an internationally open, competitive fellowship program for early and mid-career researchers focusing on learning and development of children and youth.

The main project will focus on the oscillatory correlates of predictive processing in vision and audition with a special focus on neural entrainment phenomena and top-down control. The project is part of a collaborative research effort of the BCBL with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem funded by the ERC with PIs: Ram Frost (Hebrew U), Craig Richer (BCBL), Nicola Molinaro (BCBL).

iWORDD was created back in 2013 with the aim to bring together researchers interested in understanding the causes and manifestations of developmental dyslexia and attempts to address the theoretical issues faced in this field.

Across two full days (October, 2nd -3th), the third edition of iWORDD will feature four excellent invited speakers whose theoretical views will cover various issues related to the impact of cross-linguistic variations on the manifestations of reading development and reading disorders.

The successful candidate shall investigate how visual information is temporarily remembered, possibly making use of eye movement patterns and pupillometry, and behavioural dual-task interference manipulations. The candidate shall aim to apply new findings about remembering visual materials to compare models of WM and suggest ways of better specifying WM models.

We are looking for cognitive neuroscientists or experimental psychologists with a background in psycholinguistics and/or neighboring cognitive neuroscience areas, computational modelers, and physicists and/or engineers with fMRI/MEG expertise.

The Harms Paradox: When matched for levels of alcohol consumption people from deprived communities suffer greater ill-health than people from more affluent communities (Mackenbach et al, 2015). The purpose of this research is to investigate whether the same phenomenon is also true for gambling behaviour. 

The ULB Neuroscience Institute (UNI), located at the Université libre de Bruxelles offers a dynamic and diverse research environment in all fields of neuroscience, from molecular and cellular neurobiology to systems and neurophysiology, from cognitive neuroscience to clinical research.

The Faculty of Psychology’s Department of Psychosocial Science has a vacancy (full time) for preferably a Professor, alternatively an Associate Professor, of Cognitive Psychology.

The Chair of Psychology (Cognitive and Experimental Psychology; Prof. Iring Koch) at RWTH Aachen University is seeking to hire a post-doctoral researcher (salary TVL13; full-time, fixed-term position). Starting date is April 1st, 2019. The position is for three years, with the option of extension for another three years.

The Society for Philosophy and Psychology (SPP) invites philosophers, psychologists, and cognitive scientists to submit papers to be presented at its 45th annual meeting.

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers who share the focus on multimodality but come from different areas.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and creative Post-doc to work on our bilateral project LOSTME (PTDC/PSI/ESP/30958/2017) with Dr. Moreno I. Coco (PI, University of East London) and Dr. Ana Luisa Raposo (CO-PI, the University of Lisbon).

The Cognition, Action, and Sustainability Unit (Abteilung Allgemeine Psychologie; Prof. Dr. Andrea Kiesel) at the University of Freiburg, Germany, is looking for a PhD student (TV-L E13 65%, earliest start date: 01.04.2019) for a project embedded in the new Cluster of Excellence "Living, Adaptive and Energy-autonomous Materials Systems (livMatS)". 

Nominations are being sought for the position of Editor of three Psychonomic Society journals: Behavior Research Methods, Memory & Cognition, and Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 

We are looking for one full-time PhD student position at Ghent University on the topic “The role of confidence and urgency in deciding to stop sampling information” (with Tom Verguts, Kobe Desender, and Elise Lesage), and one full-time PhD student position at Ghent University and Vrije Universiteit Brussel on the topic “A model-based approach to study transfer in decision making and cognitive control” (with Tom Verguts and Senne Braem).

Applications are invited for a full-time post-doctoral position in the Psychology of Language and Bilingualism Lab at the Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland.

The Department of Philosophy is accepting applications for a McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2021-2022 academic year in the Department’s program in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology (PNP).