IDEALAB offers an outstanding laboratory-based 3-year doctoral training to study structure, processing and foundations of human language, integrating interdisciplinary approaches. Candidates conduct original and independent research on experimental and clinical aspects of language and the brain. 

València, Spain
10-13 April 2024

We are delighted to announce that the Sixth Annual Meeting of the Society for the Cognitive Science of Culture will be held in València (Spain), at the School of Psychology (University of València) hosted by the ReadIt Research Group. 

The objective of the summer school on Computational Modeling of Cognition in a Social Context is to build a bridge between those two arenas that have thus far been pursued in parallel. The Summer School will be the first event, to our knowledge, that teaches students about modelling both individual cognition and the behavior of collectives of people. To this end, we have assembled a new team of instructors that spans both conventional cognitive modeling and computational social science.

Does your engagement with the world drive your visual perception? And in what ways? In this project we want to unravel the interaction between cognition, emotion and perception by studying neural correlates of visual perception within different task-settings and emotional contexts.

Lisbon, Portugal
10-12 January 2024

The purpose of this workshop is to promote the application of Bayesian methods among the early career researchers and to establish a good practice of open science within this group. No prior knowledge in Bayesian analysis is required. This workshop will provide an introduction on Bayesian concepts and hands-on materials using R and brms package.

Belfast, United Kingdom    
17-20 July 2024    

The ISRE conference is an exciting opportunity to meet international colleagues, present your work, and stay up to date with the latest developments in emotion research. ISRE members study emotions from a wide range of disciplines including psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, sociology, linguistics, law, affective computing, history, anthropology, art, and design. ISRE 2024 will include keynote addresses by Phoebe Ellsworth, Terry Maroney, and Yuri Miyamoto. 

The Nexus Emergent Attention Lab headed by Prof. Leonardo Chelazzi of the University of Verona is searching for a Postdoctoral Researcher interested in studying the behavioural and neurophysiological correlates of visuo-spatial attention. 

Nijmegen, Netherlands
5-7 June 2024

The IMPRS conference will be back next year in a hybrid format. The aim of the biennial 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 the human language ability. 

We invite expressions of interest for a forthcoming 2-year postdoctoral position, starting early 2024, in the context of the project "The world in words". The project, led by Marco Marelli (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy) and Luca Rinaldi (University of Pavia, Italy), aims at investigating the impact of linguistic experience on spatial and attentional processes, combining cognitive modelling with experimental approaches from psychology and neuroscience.

At the earliest possible date we are looking to support our team with a research assistant with a focus on research - general psychology (75 %) in the project "Automatized task-set reconfiguration: Mechanisms underlying practice-related improvement in task-switching performance" funded by the German Research Foundation. The project is headed by Prof. Dr. Tilo Strobach and Prof. Dr. Mike Wendt. The project is limited to 36 months.

This special issue aims to collect the latest developments in the field of numerical cognition and to provide a comprehensive overview of the phenomenon by including a variety of contributions from different disciplines and approaches. In particular, we welcome contributions that shed light on cognitive influences (e.g., attention, perception, memory), developmental and cultural factors, and biological and evolutionary foundations that play a role in number processing.

Adélaïde de Heering from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is hiring a postdoctoral fellow for 1.5 year (full-time contract) to join her lab, lulLABy, and work on a research project recently funded by an ARC consolidator grant. The aim of this project is to investigate infants’ active exploration mechanisms and the development of curiosity.

We invite expressions of interest for 2 postdoctoral research positions in the context of the project “Functional characterization of decisional components in motor responses for young and older adults (FundDeMYO)”, with Simone Sulpizio ( University of Milano-Bicocca) and Michele Scaltritti (University of Trento) as PIs. The project investigates the decisional components influencing motor responses in binary decision making, with the goal to better understand the transition from cognition to action.  

The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language – BCBL is offering one 4-year funded doctoral opportunity to integrate the Educational Neuroscience and Developmental Disorders group led by Dr. Marie Lallier. The candidate will work on the BILREADY project funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.

This course gives a unique insight into neuroscience in real world settings. You’ll study alongside our leading neuroscientists with contributions from external academics and professionals, and have access to the department’s excellent neuroscience facilities.

ESCoP is relaunching its support of thematic meetings. We offer partial funding for thematic meetings in 2024, organized by ESCoP members, for an amount of up to 4000 Euro.

We would like to invite you to send proposals for the 2025 ESCoP summer school. ESCoP offers partial funding for summer schools, up to a maximum of €15,000. Potential organizers are invited to send proposals, questions or suggestions to the ESCoP Secretary. 

The 24th meeting of ESCOP will be hosted by the Department of Psychology at The University of Sheffield in Sheffield, UK (precise dates in 2025 TBA).

In the upcoming 2024-2025 cycle, the Eureast Platform will host a minimum 13 visiting fellows from the following countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Scholars at risk from Belarus and Russia residing in Europe are also welcome to apply.

The ESCoP Committee has selected Dr. Vencislav Popov from the Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich to receive the Bertelson Award for 2025. Dr. Popov will give the Bertelson Award Lecture at the 2025 conference in Sheffield. Congratulations!

Belfast, United Kingdom
17-20 July 2024

The ISRE conference is an exciting opportunity to meet international colleagues, present your work, and stay up to date with the latest developments in emotion research.

The successful applicant will work with Prof. Klaus Oberauer on a project together with Prof. Ed Awh (University of Chicago) entitled: “Clarifying the cognitive role of neurally active representations in working memory”. The PhD position is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. 

We invite expression of interest for one forthcoming postdoctoral position at the Department of Psychology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, working on the project “epithets - explaining pejoratives in theoretical and experimental Terms ”, under the supervision of Simone Sulpizio. Epithets investigates the role of expressives, also in relation to the linguistic context of use.

The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian (Basque Country, Spain) is offering a 2-year funded Post-Doctoral opportunity. The post-doctoral fellow will work on a research project within the Consciousness research group.

Two funded PhD positions are available at the Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognition (PsyNCog) research unit (University of Liège, Belgium), under the supervision of Dr. Christel Devue (Cognitive Psychology research group).

Äkäslompolo, Finland
14-17 April 2024    

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

The ERC project EXPERIENCE will address the “why” question of consciousness by pursuing a rich interdisciplinary program rooted in integrative philosophy of mind and in innovative cognitive neuroscience methods applied to the interactions between affect and consciousness in perception and action.

Regensburg, Germany
17-20 March 2024

The TeaP is a renowned psychological research conference of international junior and senior scientists from various fields of Experimental Psychology (eg, cognitive, social, developmental, and biological psychology) and related disciplines. It has been held since 1958 and typically attracts between 600 and 900 scientists from Germany, Europe, and North America. 

Belfast, United Kingdom
17-20 July 2024

The ISRE conference is an exciting opportunity to meet international colleagues, present your work, attend talks and workshops, and stay up-to-date with the latest developments in emotion research. ISRE members study emotions from a wide range of disciplines, including affective computing, anthropology, art and design, education, history, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, psychology and sociology.

The Computational Cognitive Science Lab led by Dr. Moreno I. Coco at the Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome is looking for one post-doctoral fellow to join for 2 years and contribute to the project “The attentional curve of forgetting visual information in younger and older adults: experimental and computational insights .”, which is funded through the program PRIN 2022, sponsored by our Ministry of Education and Excellence (MIUR).

The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastián (Basque Country, Spain) is offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity.

We are looking for a motivated post-doctoral researcher for a period of 24 months to work on the ANR funded project ‘The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Syntax across the Language Modalities (DynSyn),’ with Dr. Kristof Strijkers of AMU-France as PI and with Prof. Liina Pylkkänen of NYU-USA as an external collaborator. In this project, we investigate whether our brains compute syntax similarly in language production and language perception.  

The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst is inviting applications for a tenure track, academic year, faculty position at the Assistant Professor level in its Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Psychology program, starting in Fall 2024. 

Rotterdam, the Netherlands
24-27 July 2024

COGSCI is the conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society brings together researchers from around the world who hold a common goal: understanding the nature of the human mind. 

Toronto, Canada
13-16 April 2024

We invite you to join us at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society 2024 Annual Meeting. We will have a full schedule of events slated for this year's meeting that will include Invited Symposia, Symposia, Several Poster Sessions, a Keynote Address as well as our Annual George A. Miller Award Lecture, Distinguished Career Contributions Award Lecture and Young Investigators Award Lecture.

San Francisco, USA
16-19 November 2023

Join more than 2,400 of your colleagues at the Psychonomic Society's 64th Annual Meeting this November 16-19, 2023 in San Francisco, California, USA. Attendees are cognitive psychologists from more than 40 countries, including some of the field’s most distinguished researchers, innovative early career investigators, and graduate students already making important scientific contributions.

You would work with the Cognition lab led by Klaus Oberauer. Our research focus is on cognitive capacity limits, in particular working memory and its relations to attention and long-term memory, which we approach through behavioral experiments, individual-differences studies, and computational modelling. 

We invite highly motivated and curious individuals to apply for our doctoral position. As a successful candidate, you will have the unique opportunity to contribute to ongoing research projects.

The University of Technology Nuremberg is looking to fill, at the earliest possible date, a position as a Professor (m/f/d) (W2 with a Tenure Track to W3) of Psychology with a Focus on Experimental Psychology at the Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences. 

We are looking for a research associate (Cognitive Psychology) at the University of Trier (department of Prof. Frings) in Germany. The goal is the own scientific further qualification (doctorate in psychology, Dr. rer. nat.). The doctoral student will hold one course per semester for Bachelor students (German or English).

The Department of Psychology at the University of Cologne invites applications for a tenured Professorship in Cognitive Psychology (W3). 

The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian (Basque Country, Spain) is offering a 2-year funded Post-Doctoral opportunity.

The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language is offering a 2-year funded Post-Doctoral opportunity. The post-doctoral fellow will work on a research project within the Consciousness research group.

We are looking for a motivated post-doctoral researcher for a period of 24 months to work on the ANR funded project ‘The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Syntax across the Language Modalities (DynSyn),’ with Dr. Kristof Strijkers of AMU-France as PI and with Prof. Liina Pylkkänen of NYU-USA as an external collaborator. In this project, we investigate whether our brains compute syntax similarly in language production and language perception. 

The Department of Psychology at Lancaster University has a vacancy for a full-time indefinite research Lectureship in the area of Cognitive Psychology. This position is a strategic appointment in Cognitive Psychology, to develop and enhance our research and teaching in this growth area.

You will work on an ESRC funded project “Working memory and its relation to outcomes in the real world”. This grant provides a unique opportunity to examine the relationship between working memory and a range of real-world outcomes (eg, inattentive and hyperactive behaviours, academic achievement, and unemployment) in data from thousands of participants. 

The core aspect of the position is the analysis of complex neurocognitive data (mainly EEG). The data comes from different settings and will also be analyzed using machine learning/AI. 

We are seeking a 3-year Postdoctoral Research Associate to contribute to an exciting project funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). The project “Strategy training to support healthy cognitive ageing: behavioural, neuroimaging, and real-world investigations” will commence in October 2023.

Two four-year PhD positions are available at the University of Liège (Belgium), Psychology and Neuroscience of Cognition research unit, under the supervision of Dr. Arnaud D’Argembeau and Dr. Christel Devue. We are seeking two highly motivated candidates for a research project on the spatio-temporal compression of information in episodic memory for real-world events.

Brussels, Belgium
31 August - 1 September 2023

A free two-day workshop to gather senior and junior researchers from all fields, from fundamental neuroscience to clinical psychology, sharing an interest in social cognition and interpersonal behaviour. 

The postdoc in experimental psychology will be part of a project entitled Selection in Cognition. The larger project develops and tests a new theory of basic cognitive selection mechanisms by combining methods and perspectives from experimental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, mathematical modeling, and philosophy.

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!

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.  

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).

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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!

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).

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. 

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).

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.

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. 

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!

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.

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.