16 Nov
2015
16 Nov
'15
10:59 p.m.
Applications are invited for PhD studentships at the Department of Cognitive Science at
Central European University (CEU), Budapest, Hungary.
This is a research-based training program in human cognition with social cognition and
learning as core themes. Research topics include cooperation, communication, social
learning, cultural transmission, embodied cognition, joint action, cognitive development,
strategic decision-making, problem solving, visual cognition, sensory and statistical
learning, visual psychophysics, computational neuroscience, and social cognitive
neuroscience. Students will follow courses in cognitive psychology, philosophy of mind,
cognitive anthropology, computational cognition and linguistics, and will receive
practical research training in the laboratories of the members of this new department.
Faculty includes
Gergely CSIBRA
(cognitive development, cognitive neuroscience)
József FISER
(visual perception and cognition, biological and statistical learning)
György GERGELY
(infant cognition, developmental psychopathology)
Christophe HEINTZ
(culture and cognition, scientific cognition, behavioral economics)
Günther KNOBLICH
(embodied cognition and social cognition, problem solving)
Ágnes M. KOVÁCS
(development of social cognition, theory of mind, mental representations)
Máté LENGYEL
(computational neuroscience, learning and memory)
Natalie SEBANZ
(social cognition, social cognitive neuroscience)
Dan SPERBER
(culture and cognition, communication and language, evolution)
Ernő TÉGLÁS
(cognitive development, reasoning)
Applicants are expected to hold an internationally recognized Master’s or comparable
degree in the standard disciplines that constitute cognitive science. A comparable degree
in other Social Sciences, Humanities, or other disciplines will also be considered in case
of an excellent academic record. We will consider the applications of exceptional students
who only hold a Bachelor degree, provided it is in a discipline closely associated to
cognitive science.
Application deadline: February 4, 2016. For further details see
http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/Admission <http://cognitivescience.ceu.hu/Admission>
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CEU (www.ceu.hu <http://www.ceu.hu/>) is a graduate research-intensive university
located in Budapest, Hungary and accredited in the United States and Hungary. CEU enrolls
more than 1300 graduate students from more than 90 countries in its master's and
doctoral programs. The teaching staff consists of more than 190 resident faculty from 28
countries, and prominent visiting scholars from around the world. The language of
instruction is English.