PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience

We are recruiting a new fully-funded PhD student to join Dr Daniel Yon’s Uncertainty Lab at the School of Psychological Sciences at Birkbeck, University of London./nThis post is attached to a recent grant awarded to Dr Yon from the Leverhulme Trust entitled Public Communication and Private Confidence./nThe project aims to find out how social influences shape private metacognition and is a collaborative partnership between Daniel Yon and Chris Frith (Institute of Philosophy), Cecilia Heyes (Oxford) and Phil Corlett (Yale)./nIn this PhD studentship, the student will lead on experimental and computational work looking at how social interaction biases feelings of confidence and how these biases could be transmitted from one person to another, and will support brain imaging experiments (i.e., fMRI studies) in collaboration with a postdoc./nThe student will join the project at its earliest stages and will work independently and in collaboration with other members of the Uncertainty Lab. The studentship is located in London at Birkbeck, University of London.