PhD Position: Cognitive Neuroscience of Curiosity at the Donders Centre for Cognition Radboud University in Netherlands

Babes-Bolyai University is recruiting a postdoctoral scientific researcher for a position within the project “Mental health in a rapidly changing society: A multi-level approach, from genes and molecules to neural networks and psychosocial systems” (PN-IV-P6-6.1-CoEx-2024-0139). The role is based in the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences in Cluj-Napoca, Romania , and is a full-time, temporary research appointment. The successful candidate will work in an interdisciplinary environment...

PhD position at Leiden University: The effect of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on cognitive functions This 4-year PhD project at the Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, investigates whether transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) can improve cognitive functions such as memory, attention, perception, and cognitive control. tVNS is a non-invasive electrical stimulation technique applied through the skin at the ear or neck. The project addresses an important scientific questi...

University of York’s Department of Psychology is advertising PhD research opportunities in a research-intensive environment with strong facilities and training support. The programme includes three main doctoral routes: PhD in Psychology , PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging , and PhD in Psycholinguistics . Students can benefit from first-year modules, ongoing research-skills training, academic tools sessions, weekly research seminars, and access to specialised facilities such as the ...

Postdoctoral position in cognitive computational neuroscience at the University of Birmingham , advertised by Matthew Apps (Full Professor of Cognitive Computational Neuroscience). The project is funded by the Wellcome Trust Discovery Award and is being run in collaboration with Masud Husain , Catherine Harmer , and Simon Little . The research aims to understand the neural and computational mechanisms of apathy in healthy people. Core methods include large-scale online testing , brain imaging , ...

ERC-funded postdoctoral opportunity in Neuropixels / high-density extracellular electrophysiology at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam, within the Social Brain Lab led by Christian Keysers . The project, HarmAversion , asks how mammalian brains learn to avoid actions that harm others and combines rodent behavior, computational modeling, circuit manipulations, optogenetics, and cross-species social neuroscience. The postdoc will lead the large-scale electrophysiology arm of ...