Menghuan Chen

Availability and support

Would love to join, thanks

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Position (80%) at the Cognitive Psychology Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich. The ideal start date would be January 1st, 2026 but could be somewhat earlier or later. The position is for initially 3 years, with possible renewal for another 1.5 years. The successful applicant will work with the head of the Cognitive Psychology Unit, Prof. Dr. Klaus Oberauer, and the Cognitive Psychology team. The post involves research and teaching (one course per semester). Research at the Zurich Cognitive Psychology Unit focuses on capacity limits of cognition, in particular working memory, long-term memory, and attention, which we investigate with experimental, individual-differences and aging studies and computational modeling. For further information see: https://www.psychology.uzh.ch/en/areas/nec/allgpsy.html We offer: - An attractive research environment with close collaboration within the team - Excellent lab infrastructure - Salary according to Cantonal regulations We expect: - a PhD in psychology or a related discipline - experience with experimental research - excellent method knowledge and skills - very good command of English - interest in pursuing an academic career in cognitive psychology In addition, it would be desirable if you had: - experience with publishing in international journals - programming skills - experience with mathematical / computational modeling Please send applications including your CV and motivation letter no later than September 10, 2025 electronically as a single PDF to: Michaela Oestmann, michaela.oestmann@psychologie.uzh.ch For questions about the position please contact Klaus Oberauer, k.oberauer@psychologie.uzh.ch

🚨 PostDoc Opening 🚨 The lab of Klaus Oberauer is looking for a new postdoc, starting end of this/beginning next year. Research focus is #cognition, #workingmemory, #methods and #computationalmodeling or anything in that direction. I cannot highlight ENOUGH how great it is to work in this lab 🥰🤓

Postdoc job alert! I’m looking for someone with a PhD in neuroscience/psychology, psychiatry, biomed engineering, computational modeling or a related field to join my NIH-funded team at UCLA studying the neural & computational mechanisms of #interoception in anorexia nervosa 1/2

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

📢 Job announcement: Two (!) 3-year postdoc jobs in our lab at UCL 📢

🧠💫🔊 We are looking for postdocs interested in the abstract mechanisms underlying social cognition. Modelling, fMRI and non-invasive ultrasound, a new deep-brain stimulation method.

Please RT

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

fMRI Course Instructors

Online #fMRI course coming up August 6-8!
3-day intensive with lectures and hands-on analysis for all skill levels. #SPM, #ICA, #DataScience with @vcalhoun.bsky.social and Kent Kiehl. We love teaching this course and meeting students from all areas! Info+Reg here:
sites.google.com/dartmouth.ed...

We are hiring for several research positions for this grant, starting early next year. Please reach out if you're interested!
More details on the jobs here: devcompsy.org/wp-content/u...

Hallo #CPConf2025, Poster 3.7!
Excited to share our fMRI study on #approach-avoidance conflict at this amazing conference.
Avoid something you want, or approach something you fear? 😧😲🙈
Come see how the our brain resolves these motivational dilemmas!🧠👁️💃

It would be much more wonderful if the sound equipment (speaker) in front of the stage could be moved (lower or upper), so it won’t block the audiences’ view.

A super interesting meta-research on flexibility of exp design of reversal learning paradigm.

"methodological standards diverge dramatically across taxa... "The number of reversal phases differed more than threefold among groups."

osf.io/preprints/ps...

reminds me a similar work in my group ->

Neural correlates (fMRI) will come soon 🧠

A big thank you as well to my colleague Mario Heutter @mreutter.bsky.social from the group and department for the invaluable help at the start of my PhD ☺️

<em>Psychophysiology</em> | SPR Journal | Wiley Online Library This study advances our understanding of how individuals control automatic approach and avoidance tendencies to appetitive and aversive stimuli. Merging behavioral, physiological, and oculomotor resp...

Very glad to share my first published PhD paper
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We provide evidence of the behavioral/cognitive costs of overcoming automatic approach-avoidance responses triggered by affective stimuli.
Huge thanks to my supervisors @gamerlab.bsky.social and @Andre Pittig

Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in (w/m/d) Bewerberfrist: 06.07.2025

We are looking for a Postdoc who loves fMRI, psychophysiology and data analysis 🎉. We run studies on social cognition and related processes with a focus on schizophrenia. German skills could be beneficial, bc the position involves teaching, but not mandatory.
stellen.uni-konstanz.de/jobposting/4...

DFG Research Unit 5389

Job altert: Postdoc position (100%, 2 yrs) in our lab (@cmdn-lab.bsky.social) in context with the DFG Research Unit on Belief Updating (www.uni-hamburg.de/ru5389/resea...).

We are looking for people with strong quantitative skills.

Info and application via: www.uni-hamburg.de/stellenangeb...

Where is this spot? I have not seen the city from this view😂

Next poster from the group #pug2025 - B 191 by @menghuanchen.bsky.social on approach-avoidance control

Hi #PuG, B 191: Come and visit👉
How competing outcomes (reward vs. threat) bidirectionally but asymmetrically reshape approach-avoidance behavior, physiology and attention

🛌 Time for memory consolidation of the first day at the #PuG2025

🚨 Job adverts LIVE! 🚨

We want to understand how the brain supports abstract cognition in psychosis, using cutting-edge neuroscience.

Non-Clinical RA:
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Clinical RA:
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Postdoc:
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Oxford University
Due June 23

What dopamine teaches depends on what the brain believes - Nature Neuroscience How does the brain learn to predict rewards? In this issue of Nature Neuroscience, Qian, Burrell et al. show that understanding how dopamine guides learning requires knowledge of how animals interpret...

Nature Neuroscience

What dopamine teaches depends on what the brain believes

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨JOB ALERT🚨

@oxengsci.bsky.social, in collaboration with @oxexppsy.bsky.social & St Catherine's college, is hiring an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering (Technologies for Mental Health and Cognition).

To view the job particulars and apply, click the link below. Feel free to share! 👇

We also have a open Postdoc position in human brain electrophysiology in collaboration with Prof. Maxime Baud at the University of Bern, check it out: ndlab.ch
#JobAlert #PostDoc #EEG #MachineLearning

Thank you very much for sharing. Are you still recruiting?

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

My colleague Dan Bush (not on BSky) at UCL is looking for a post-doc. Focus on intracranial EEG and single cell recordings from epilepsy patients + MEG recordings from healthy volunteers during spatial and episodic memory tasks. Apply here
tinyurl.com/n6nkty8e

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

My PI is hiring a new postdoc! if you are interested in memory, navigation, or just curious about the hippocampus, come join a lab processing data from human single cell recordings up to whole brain MEG!

(Deadline 28th May)

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Convergence of Cannabis and Psychosis on the Dopamine System This cohort study investigates the association between cannabis and the midbrain dopamine pathway involved in psychosis.

We show cannabis use disorder is associated with higher midbrain neuromelanin, where such an increase is associated with #psychosis severity. The higher the use, the greater the putative dopamine turnover.
Led by Jessica Ahrens @healthsciences.mcgill.ca IPN

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

A cellular basis for mapping behavioural structure - Nature Mice generalize complex task&nbsp;structures by using neurons in the medial frontal cortex that encode progress to task goals&nbsp;and embed behavioural sequences.

A bit late to the Bluesky party but here’s our work showing a coordinate system for behavioural space, and an algorithm for computing behavioural sequences in the mFC: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

📢 Fantastic post doc job opportunity in my group and co-supervised by DeepMind's @mariaeckstein.bsky.social - now live! Ad here: tinyurl.com/26rafzdc - deadline May 29th.
This is part of a very exciting collaboration with @melgaby.bsky.social and Matt Nour, funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social.

Walter Benjamin Programme Monday, 26 May 2025, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. CET

#ECR attention! Just finishing your #PhD and wondering if the DFG’s Walter Benjamin Programme might be a funding option for you? Come and find out in our info talk in our research career series #Prospects (in English). The link to the meeting will be published here:
➡️ www.dfg.de/en/research-...