cognitive neuroscience

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

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 […]

2017-03-27

TMS study on primary visual cortex

A team of researchers including our own Antti Revonsuo have just published a paper in NeuroImage entitled ‘Early processing in primary visual cortex is necessary for conscious and unconscious vision while late processing is necessary only for conscious vision in neurologically healthy humans.’ Briefly, the study found that activity in the primary visual cortex at […]

2017-03-25

Small spring updates

After something of a lull in posting (busy times in cogneuro-land), here are some recent updates: How better to establish that your theory has gone mainstream than it being featured in the SMBC webcomic?! Kristoffer Ekman talks New Year’s resolutions with local media (in Swedish only). One of our BSc program students talks exercise and […]

2016-12-16

Student and program appearances in local media

Two new local media pieces (both in Swedish only, unfortunately). One covering the use of psychedelic narcotics in clinical research, the other detailing collaboration with Estonian entrepreneurs seeking to develop a device for improving sleep.