QS Rank:

55

University of Amsterdam

North Holland
,Netherlands

Program Name
PhD in Cognitive Psychology

Deadline
February 15th, 2026
Overview
Research project “BrainShorts: Identifying neural mechanisms of dynamic video perception with deep learning”.
This PhD project aims to develop stimulus-computable models of human electroencephalogram (EEG) responses to video shorts. Together with a research assistant and post-doctoral researcher, the candidate will collect a large-scale EEG dataset of dynamic brain measurements during video watching, curate an open-science neural prediction benchmark for deep learning video-AI models, and assess representational alignment of bio-inspired deep learning models to the human brain. The bio-inspired models will be enriched with different temporal integration mechanisms. Location: Faculty of Science, Video & Image Sense (VIS) Lab, Informatics Institute, Lab42 building at the Amsterdam Science Park, University of Amsterdam.

Duration
4 Months
Ranking
#39
US World and News Report
#60
The World University Rankings
#55
QS World University Rankings
Class Profile
Application Requirements
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