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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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),

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 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 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). 

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.

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)’.

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.

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.

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 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. 

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 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). 

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).

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.

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).

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.

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.