Acre, Israel
25-27 February 2025
As in previous years, our aim is to bring together the large and diverse Israeli community of cognitive researchers and students (and international colleagues) in a single venue to share their research and perspectives on this rapidly advancing field. We are excited to host this year Prof. Mike Kahana (University of Pennsylvania) as our distinguished keynote speaker.
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São Paulo, Brazil
21-25 July 2025
We are pleased to invite submissions for the 18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition jointly organized with the 17th International Conference of the Brazilian Association of Cognition and Musical Arts. The ICMPC 18 will be held in a hybrid format (participation will be possible either in-person or through virtual attendance), with most activities live-streamed and accessible remotely.
We have an open PhD position to fill at the laboratory for Cognitive Psychology at Medical School Hamburg, Germany. Salary will be according to TVL-13; 75%. It is a fixed-term position for three years. Starting date is as soon as the position is filled.
We know your mind is brimming with ideas and, at ”la Caixa” Foundation, we want to help you develop them further. ”la Caixa” Foundation’s doctoral INPhINIT fellowships support talented researchers of the future like you. This programme enables you to pursue a doctorate at the best universities and research centres in Spain and Portugal.
The 2025 application round for the PhD Program International Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language And Brain (IDEALAB) is now open!
San Sebastian, Spain
4-6 June 2025
The Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language is pleased to announce the seventh biennial Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD). The overarching goal of WILD is to bring together scientists with different perspectives and methodological approaches to the study of early language and cognitive development.
We are now accepting proposals for symposia, which offer the opportunity to showcase exciting research findings or advance theoretical discussions. Each symposium should focus on a common research area comprising 5 related talks that help to promote discussions, debates, and resolutions concerning that topic.
Applications are open to join a new research group at the Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne (Switzerland). The group conducts research in Psycholinguistics with a focus on applied statistics and experimental methods.
The Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) is offering a predoctoral position for a PhD project aimed at investigating perceptual consciousness and metacognition. The research will utilize visual psychophysics and functional MRI techniques, including decoded neurofeedback.
Online event
We're reaching out to invite you to the new online International Cognitive Development Seminar Series, organised by Dr Agnieszka Graham (Queen's University Belfast) and Dr Alicia Forsberg (The University of Sheffield).
Statistical learning (SL) is a crucial capacity supporting efficient cognition and action throughout the lifespan. SL is an organism’s ability to attune to coherent covariation in its environment (e.g., an infant learning sound patterns of a language, or visual patterns corresponding to objects). This project uses recurrent neural network modeling to investigate the types of computations that may support human SL. The modeling motivates EEG and MEG studies with human subjects. Together, the modeling and experiments will advance our understanding of the nature and computational basis for human SL.
Job description: designing and implementing studies exploring FDS perception and production in adults; analysing acoustic, behavioural and electrophysiological data during speech processing; writing research articles under the supervision of the PI, aiming to publish at top-tier journals; dissemination of results at international scientific conferences and to general public.
Bressanone/Brixen, Italy
13-15 February 2025
The Cognitive Science Arena is 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. The idea of the CSA is to reverse the usual format of scientific conferences. Young researchers first: they play the starring role (no talks or posters from senior researchers are allowed), they compete for a prize for the best talk and poster voted by the audience. We would like to bring together young and promising minds now working in cognitive science and provide them with a fruitful and cooperative environment.
Speech processing and reading are essential unique human abilities underpinning social, educational, and professional advancement. However early biomarkers of speech processing deficits that have been documented in reading disabilities such as Developmental Dyslexia (DD) have yet to be identified. Here, we will explore whether the cortical tracking of speech (CTS) - the temporal alignment between fluctuations in the speech signal and fluctuations in electrical brain activity – can predict later reading deficits in DD.
Speech processing and reading are essential unique human abilities underpinning social, educational, and professional advancement. However early biomarkers of speech processing deficits that have been documented in reading disabilities such as Developmental Dyslexia (DD) have yet to be identified. Here, we will explore whether the cortical tracking of speech (CTS) - the temporal alignment between fluctuations in the speech signal and fluctuations in electrical brain activity – can predict later reading language and reading development from infancy stages.
Speech processing and reading are essential unique human abilities underpinning social, educational, and professional advancement. However, biologically constrained models of spoken and visual word recognition are still lacking, particularly in the domains of bilingualism. Here, we will investigate the neurobiological underpinnings of speech and reading in bilinguals and second language learners using data collected with advanced neuroimaging tools in our lab.
The ESCoP Early Career Publication Award (€1000) is an award for the best article accepted for publication in 2023. The applicant has to be the first author of the article and a member of ESCoP. In any given year, one person can only submit one application.
The Attention and Consciousness Laboratory at the University of Granada is offering a 4-year FPI contract to pursue a PhD in the Cognitive Neuroscience program. The selected candidate will contribute to the development of the project "Rich but imprecise: exploring the quality of perceptual experiences" (PID2023-152001NB-I00), led by Professor Ana B. Chica Martínez. This project aims to explore the quality of perceptual experiences under different attentional conditions.
We are looking for a candidate with an interest in research and neuroscience to work on a project in collaboration with Meta AI on decoding the neural correlates of language production. You will be in charge of collecting MEG data and recruiting research participants. In addition, you will be processing video recordings to extract finger tracking measures.
The research project Psychological Reactance and Polarization: Causes, Consequences, and Solutions, funded by the Research Council of Finland, invites applications for a fixed-term position as Project Researcher in Psychology for the period 1.1.2025-31.5.2028. The position is focused on the fields of social psychology and communication. The position is full time.
Crete, Greece
6-9 July 20205
The 28th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness will be held at the Cultural Conference Center of Heraklion. The conference themes will include the neural correlates of consciousness, the nature of subjective experience and the implications of consciousness research for our understanding of mind-brain-body relationships.
San Francisco, USA
30 July - 2 August 2025
The Cognitive Science Society brings together researchers from around the world who hold a common goal: understanding the nature of the human mind. The mission of the Society is to promote Cognitive Science as a discipline, and to foster scientific interchange among researchers in various areas of study, including Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Anthropology, Psychology, Neuroscience, Philosophy, and Education.
The Spoken Language research group at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language aims to sponsor a candidate for a Juan de la Cierva Postdoctoral Fellowship (a competitive call for a fellowship awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities).
Adélaïde de Heering (lullaby, CRCN) is hiring a postdoc for 1.5 years to investigate infants’ active exploration mechanisms and the development of curiosity. They will recruit, test, interpret, and write about infants’ data collected from behavioural and EEG measurements.
Äkäslompolo, Finland
6-9 April 2025
The special theme of the LaP 2025 meeting is “Interventions to promote cognition and well-being”. However, most of the program will consist of free papers reflecting the broad spectrum of learning and plasticity research.
The UC San Diego Department of Cognitive Science invites applications for up to three tenure-track faculty positions at the Assistant Professor rank. We seek exceptional candidates in any relevant area of Cognitive Science.
The Department of Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh invites applications for a tenure-track position at the level of assistant professor in the area of cognitive psychology, pending budgetary approval, to begin Fall of 2025.
We are excited to announce two postdoctoral positions funded by an ERC Starting Grant, focusing on the investigation of cognitive maps. This project aims to quantify the role of language experience in cognitive maps through the use of distributional semantics models.
Sheffield, United Kingdom
September 3-5, 2025
We are pleased to announce the dates and website for the upcoming 24th conference of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP), taking place in Sheffield, United Kingdom.
We are inviting applications for a 2-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position (start date January 1st 2025) to work at the University of Birmingham (funded by the Leverhulme Trust), on the benefits of language exposure for language processing in healthy older adults.
The Center for Cognitive and Brain Health (CBH) at Northeastern University invites applications for a Director of the Center for Cognitive and Brain Health at the rank of Full Professor.
We are looking for passionate researchers for two on-site positions at our Nebrija Research Center in Cognition (CINC) at the Madrid - Arturo Soria campus of Nebrija University: a predoctoral contract and a postdoctoral contract. These positions will be associated with the International Chair in Cognitive Health.
We are pleased to announce that Francesca Peressotti has been chosen as the new ESCoP's President-Elect. The new Committee members are Alessandra Souza, Luca Rinaldi, and Tilo Strobach. Congratulations!
A PhD position is available at the ONERA in Salon-de-Provence. The successful candidate will work on studies of perceptual decision-making and confidence. The project aims at decoding individuals' confidence from EEG and eye-tracking signals. Research methods include psychophysics, EEG and eye-tracking.
Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
9-13 June 2025
We invite submissions in all areas of bilingualism and multilingualism, linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, neurolinguistics, applied linguistics, neuropsychology, language acquisition, clinical linguistics, language and education, and multilingual societies.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
23 July 2024
Analogy 2024, the fifth conference on analogy, is organized around a few symposia posing some central questions in the analogy research, thus facilitating productive discussion around specific questions that will constitute the topics of the symposia.
Leuphana University is looking for a PhD student for 75% of the regular weekly working hours of a full-time employee. The project will start on February 1, 2025 and will investigate whether and how social factors (such as group membership, perceived similarity, etc.) influence imitative behaviour.
Applications are open to join a new research group at the Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne (Switzerland). The group conducts research in Psycholinguistics with a focus on applied statistics and experimental methods.
Applications are open to join a new research group at the Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne. The group conducts research in Psycholinguistics with a focus on applied statistics and experimental methods.
We offer a three-year postdoctoral position at the Institute of Psychology, University of Lausanne. The successful candidate will work on project "L2-Spell: The Impact of Orthography on Second Language Word Learning and Processing" together with Audrey Bürki (Lausanne), Elsa Spinelli (Grenoble) and Pauline Welby (Aix-en-Provence).
We are looking for a highly motivated postdoctoral research associate to join a project funded by the UKRI Frontier Research Guarantee Funding (for selected ERC starting grants), entitled “Lost For Words: Cognitive Ageing And Language Control In Bilingual Older Adults With And Without Cognitive Impairment”.
Susanne Jaeggi and Aaron Seitz are looking for interdisciplinary postdocs to join the SoundMind Collaboratory and Brain Game Center for Mental Fitness and Well-being. Our joint research program takes a lifespan approach using a variety of cognitive and cognitive neuroscience approaches to understand and address the needs of cognitively diverse populations, ranging from individuals with cognitive deficits to neurotypical individuals across the lifespan. Our research uses a mixture of in-lab and ambulatory tools (e.g., apps that run on mobile phones and tablets) to reach larger, more diverse, and traditionally underserved/understudied populations.
One postdoctoral position at the Department of Psychology at the University of Milano-Bicocca, working on the project “Functional characterisation of decisional components in motor responses for young and older adults”, under the supervision of Simone Sulpizio.
Lüneburg, Germany
29 July – 2 August 2024
We are happy to offer a workshop on Nonlinear Methods for Psychological and Social Sciences again, taking place from 29th July to 2nd August 2024 at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Germany).
We are looking for a highly motivated candidate with a background in psycholinguistics, experimental linguistics, or experimental psychology (Ph.D. in Psychology, Cognitive Science, or Linguistics). The ideal candidate has expertise in experimental data analysis and excellent written communication skills in English. Programming skills (e.g., Python, Matlab) are a plus.
Munich, Germany
7-9 October 2024
We are organizing the International Meeting on Quantifying Semantic-Orthographic Regularities Across Languages (QuaSemO, 2024) in Munich this year with a fantastic speaker lineup.
We have an open PhD 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. Starting date is approximately July, 1, 2024.
Applications are invited for two funded doctoral positions (4 years), with a flexible starting date between September and December 2024. The successful applicants will work with Prof. Dr. Evie Vergauwe.
Brussels, Belgium
27-28 November 2024
The workshop aims to gather senior and junior researchers from all fields, from fundamental neuroscience to clinical research, sharing an interest in social cognition and interpersonal behaviour. This year's main topics: “Towards better Interventions: What are the initiatives, methods, results, and strategies for enhancing or modulating social cognitive processes?” and “Understanding and tracking changes: How to unlock the plasticity of social cognition?”
The freshly established Perceptual Inference Group at the BCBL studies how the subcortical and early cortical stages of the brain work together to make sense of the sensory world. This project will investigate how the brain learns to predict the onset of incoming sounds with high temporal precision, conforming the sensations of rhythm in speech and music. The project will make use a combination of modelling and high-resolution fMRI to explore the encoding of time in the human brain.
The freshly established Perceptual Inference Group at the BCBL studies how the subcortical and early cortical stages of the brain work together to make sense of the sensory world. This project will investigate the neural circuits implementing perceptual inference along the subcortical auditory pathway. This is a fantastic opportunity for individuals with a quantitative background who wish to start a career in Computational Neuroscience.
The freshly established Perceptual Inference Group at the BCBL studies how the subcortical and early cortical stages of the brain work together to make sense of the sensory world. This project will investigate how the brain learns to predict the onset of incoming sounds with high temporal precision, conforming the sensations of rhythm in speech and music. The project will make use a combination of modelling and high-resolution fMRI to explore the encoding of time in the human brain.
Marseille, France
26-28 June 2024
Abstract submission is open for the International Workshop on Language Production, IWoLP, to be held in Marseille between June 26th and 28th, 2024. Following the established workshop format, this call is for posters only. We look forward to reading your submissions and welcoming you to Marseille!
The successful applicant will work with Klaus Oberauer and the Cognitive Psychology team. The post involves research and teaching (one course per semester). Our research focuses on capacity limits of cognition, in particular working memory, long-term memory, and attention, which we investigate with experimental, individual-differences, and computational modeling studies.
Aix-en-Provence, France
10-12 June 2024
The conference is open to the numerous aspects of multilingualism within the broad scope of cogntive science, in the fields of linguistics, psychology, neurology, education sciences, and informatics.
Nijmegen, Netherlands
5-7 June 2024
The IMPRS conference will take place in a hybrid format. On-site attendee slots are limited. 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.
The workshop brings together scientists studying language processing in aging from different perspectives, and it represents an opportunity to discuss recent scientific findings, exchange knowledge, and stimulate new ideas. The workshop will include a poster session. We welcome contributions made in any area of language processing investigating aging populations. We welcome contributions made in any area of language processing investigating ageing populations.
Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
16-17 May 2024
To understand thalamic function and structure represents a formidable neuroscientific challenge, wherein the collaboration between cellular and cognitive neuroscientific approaches holds much promise.
The 2024 International Conference on Working Memory (ICWM) is being held in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the publication of the seminal publication of the Baddeley and Hitch (1974) framework for working memory. The conference will cover the full range of theoretical and empirical approaches to the understanding and study of working memory
San Sebastian, Spain
5 June - 7 June 2024
The conference will discuss statistical learning and its underlying mechanisms from behaviour to neuroscience, in various domains such as language, music, vision, and audition, with data from adult participants, development, individual differences, computational modeling, and non-human species.
Zagreb, Croatia
23-26 October 2024
By organising the third international PAM-IE 2024 conference, we aim to bring together the diverse research endeavours of individuals and institutions in the interdisciplinary field of psychology and music and to continue providing a setting in which they can make their work visible to each other as well as to a broader interested audience.
Psycholinguistics in Flanders (PiF) was first organised in 2002 as a workshop for young researchers with a keen interest in the psychology of language. After two decades and many more iterations of PiF, we continue this tradition and would like to welcome you to Brussels (Belgium) from 27-28 May 2024 for the 21st edition of PiF.
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.
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.