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. 

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).

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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

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 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.

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”. 

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. 

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 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).