cognitive neuroscience

2017-08-29

Publications over summer

Four new publications to add to the list! Our professor, Antti Revonsuo, has a new monograph coming in 2018 with the scholarly publisher Routledge, Foundations of Consciousness. According to the blurb, the book “provides an essential introduction to the scientific and philosophical approaches to consciousness for students in psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science, and philosophy.” An […]

2017-06-26

Article on visual awareness

A team of researchers including Antti Revonsuo has published an article in the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience with the title “Different Electrophysiological Correlates of Visual Awareness for Detection and Identification.” In short, the article looks at the electrophysiological differences between conscious detection and conscious higher-level identification of visual stimuli.

2017-06-21

PhD positions in Cognitive, Computational and Social Neurosciences (CCSN)

Several competitive scholarships available from the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Italy).

2017-05-10

More PhD positions of potential interest

Both at KU Leuven – one on inhibition and calculation in children, the other on goal-directed processes in emotional and unhealthy behavior.

2017-05-09

Two interesting PhD positions

One potentially interesting position at the University of Luxembourg. One extremely interesting position (especially for our MSc students) at the University of Basel.

2017-04-13

2 interesting PhD positions at ETH Zürich

Highly compatible with our MSc! More info at Academic Positions.

2017-03-31

On Oliver Sacks…

The Guardian has a nice excerpt from the recently published diary of Sacks’ longtime partner Bill Hayes, entitled “My Life with Oliver Sacks.” Very personal insight into the life of one of the more important modern figures within the broader field of brain science.

2017-03-30

Nightmare study

A team of researchers including our own Katja Valli have published a piece in the open-source Scientific Reports (under the Nature umbrella) entitled ‘Nightmares as predictors of suicide: An extension study including war veterans.’ In short, the study investigated the association between nightmare frequency and suicide risk, finding a positive correlation between the two, even […]