Learning & Behavior

American University (Several PhD positions available with faculty in the BCaN program. Apply here:
https://www.american.edu/cas/psychology/behavioral/requirements.cfm ; deadline 12/1/19)

Arizona State University (Several PhD positions available with faculty in the Behavioral Neuroscience program. Federico Sanabria: Learning, impulsivity, motivation, and time perception in animal and computational models. Clive Wynne: Canine behavior and cognition Apply here:
https://psychology.asu.edu/bn; deadline 12/1/19)

Bloomsbury College (Studentships Funded Ph.D.; Award includes tuition fees and a stipend of £17,009 including London Weighting (at 2019/20 rates, so slightly higher for 2020 entry)100% FTE for 3 years, from September 2020. Candidates must have a first class or upper second undergraduate degree in a relevant scientific discipline, including but not limited to psychology, neuroscience, or linguistics.) [http://www.bloomsbury.ac.uk/studentships/studentships-2020/perceptual-strategies-underlying-second-language-acquisition]

Northeastern University, Boston MA (see listing under Cognitive; Learning & Brain Development Lab, Juliet Davidow)

City University of New York (Andrew Delamater, Psychology & Neurobiology of Associative Learning Laboratory; Interests include reward encoding in Pavlovian learning, extinction learning, sign/goal tracking, action/habit learning, configural discriminations, interval timing, computational theories of associative learning. Please check out our program for more information at: [https://ccp-cuny.github.io/index.html]; deadline 12/1/19)

Florida Atlantic University PhD in Experimental Psychology The Department of Psychology is actively recruiting PhD students in the area of Behavioral Neuroscience for fully funded positions. The group is broadly interested in understanding brain-behavior relationships through investigation of neural circuits, and cellular and molecular mechanisms.
Nancy Aaron Jones -Brain and socio-emotional development of at-risk infants and children
Monica Rosselli -Neuropsychological assessment of cognitive in aged and Alzheimer’s patients, Bilingualism
Robert Stackman, Jr. -Hippocampal neuronal activity and its contribution to spatial and non-spatial memory processes
Carmen Varela -Midline thalamus and cortical circuits supporting learning and memory, Computational modeling
Robert Vertes Neuroanatomical and functional analysis of the contribution of midline thalamus regions to sleep, attention, and memory
Application Deadline 12/11/2019. Step 1-FAU's Graduate College Website AND Step 2 -Dept of Psychology online app

Texas Christian University (Ken Leising, TCU Comparative Cognition Laboratory; associative learning, spatial behavior, discrimination learning, more info at [https://psychology.tcu.edu/prospective-students/experimental-ph-d-program/]; deadline 1/1/2020.

Trinity College ( In Dublin Irerland, the Cusack Lab is offering PhD Scholarship in Infant Neuroimaging, and in Computational Modelling​ starting in September 2020. Includes fees, stipend and travel for 4 years, with funding from the ERC FOUNDCOG project. Excellent candidates from outside of the EU will also be considered. Selection will begin in March 2020, and the position will remain open until filled.) [https://www.cusacklab.org/vacancies.html]

University of Oslo(A 3-year fully-funded PhD position, starting in October 2020, is now available at the BabyLing lab (Psykologisk Institut, University of Oslo) to work on the project "The role of parental speech on infant language development: Insights from Norwegian language", financed by a FRIPRO-grant of the Norwegian Research Council (PI - Natalia Kartushina, in collaboration with Alex Cristia and Julien Mayor). Application deadline is 05.08.2020)[https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/185610/phd-fellowship-in-developmental-psychology]

University of California, Irvine (Arielle Tambini; human memory consolidation and reactivation, learning and memory, episodic memory, rest, TMS, causal manipulations, fMRI, hippocampus; apply via UCI Interdepartmental Neuro Program Application Info; deadline 12/01/19)

University of California, Riverside [https://psychology.ucr.edu/about-our-department/faculty/cognition-and-cognitive-neuroscience/] Multiple positions for Fall 2020 Ph.D. program for the Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience Area in the Department of Psychology. Faculty (John Anderson, Ilana Bennett, Curt Burgess, Christine Chiarello, Steven Clark, David Rosenbaum, Lawrence Rosenblum, Aaron Seitz, Weiwei Zhang) in our interdisciplinary program conduct basic, applied, and translational research to study various mental processes and their neural substrates. Application deadline: 12/1/19.

  • Aaron Seitz (Perception and Learning Lab, https://faculty.ucr.edu/~aseitz/; UC Riverside Brain Game Center for Mental Fitness and Well-being, https://bgc.ucr.edu). Students can work in one or both of the Perception and Learning lab and the Brain Game Center. The Perception and Learning lab conducts basic research on perception, learning and memory using a variety of approaches including advanced Psychophysics, EEG, fMRI, and computational methodologies. The UCR Brain Game Center for Mental Fitness and Well-being is a unique research unit that focuses on translational psychology and neuroscience work where we exploit the potential of consumer technologies to conduct research at large scale. This involves running hundreds to many thousands of participants on research studies designed to develop better measurements of perceptual and cognitive abilities as well as new training tools for these skills. To date we have developed numerous approaches addressing vision, hearing, working memory, executive function, and fluid intelligence. In both labs we use computational modeling and machine learning as well as standard data analysis approaches.
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