PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Neurocognition in United States

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas is seeking a postdoctoral scholar to join research in neuroimaging within the Department of Health Physics and Diagnostic Sciences in the School of Integrated Health Sciences. The role is centered on work with the UNLV MR Imaging Core (UMIC), a public brain imaging research facility that supports interdisciplinary investigation of brain function and brain health. The scholar will work on MRI-based research and development, with opportunities to contribute to t...

The University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychiatry is seeking a full-time Associate Professor of Psychiatry with tenure in Pittsburgh, United States. The successful candidate will lead an independent, nationally recognized research program focused on psychiatric illness, mental health, the neurobiological substrates of complex human cognitive functions, and mechanisms underlying cognitive dysfunction. Responsibilities include developing innovative research initiatives, securing and maintainin...

Washington University School of Medicine is recruiting a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate in Radiology for the Multimodal Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory and Cao Lab in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. The researcher will investigate the neural and computational mechanisms underlying visual perception and social cognition . Projects may involve advanced 3T and 7T fMRI, human intracranial electrophysiology, behavioral experimentation, computational modeling, and multimodal analysis ...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Pediatrics at Indiana University School of Medicine This postdoctoral opportunity is based in the Health Equity through Autism Research Translation (HEART) Lab at Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis, Indiana. The lab is directed by Dr. Rebecca McNally Keehn and focuses on reducing autism and neurodevelopmental health disparities through innovative models of care in the United States and globally. Research themes include autism service disparities, primary...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Neurocognitive Aging at Johns Hopkins University (Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Baltimore, Maryland, USA). Audrey Branch’s newly launched lab is recruiting a postdoctoral research fellow for interdisciplinary studies on cognitive aging in a rat model. The project sits within a highly collaborative research program with Drs. James Knierim, Paul Worley, Alfredo Kirkwood, and Ni Zhao, and focuses on hippocampal circu...

Washington University in St. Louis (WashU Medicine) is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Psychiatry within the Cognitive & Perceptual Development Lab under the direction of John R. Pruett, Jr., M.D., Ph.D. The project focuses on cognitive neuroscience , neuroscience , autism , and developmental psychology , using fcMRI data from large studies of brain and behavior development in infants at risk for autism. The role includes data processing and analysis, hypothesis testing on brain-...

University of California, Berkeley is recruiting a Postdoctoral Scholar Employee in cognitive neuroscience through the Building Blocks of Cognition Laboratory in the Department of Psychology. The project, titled “Narrowing the mechanistic gap for anterior prefrontal cortex function” , focuses on the lateral anterior prefrontal cortex and its role in higher-level cognition, including planning, multitasking, reasoning, memory retrieval monitoring, and decision-making. The work uses fMRI , structur...

The Department of Neurological Sciences at the University of Nebraska Medical Center is recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join the laboratory of Dr. David E. Warren . This position focuses on cognitive neuroscience , neuroscience , psychology , and medical science research involving developmental, aging, and neurological populations, including healthy children, healthy older adults, and patients on the Alzheimer’s disease continuum. The lab uses a broad set of methods, including co...

UCSF Neuroscape is advertising a 2-year postdoctoral position in collaboration with Samsung . The project sits at the intersection of wearable sensing , machine learning , digital health , and cognitive neuroscience . The fellow will work with rich longitudinal wearable data, plus cognitive, behavioral, and multimodal datasets collected through Neuroscape. A strong quantitative/computational background is preferred, along with experience in machine learning and physiological signal processing, i...