Center for Research in Cognition & Neurosciences

23/10/2023

Have you thought about joining us at NeuroCog this year? Don't think too long, send us your abstract before October 30th, and while you're there, sign up to secure your spot! You can find all the information on our website, at https://neurocog.be/

We are looking forward to seeing you in 30 days!
..still not convinced? Read through the program at
https://neurocog.be/

NEUROCOG is an international conference in cognitive neurosciences intending to provide a workshop for recent advances in all domains of cognitive neurosciences. This year, the conference will take place on November, 23-24, 2023, at the Royal Academy in Brussels (Belgium). The conference topic will....

21/06/2023

Are you interested in doing a Postdoc at the CRCN? Axelle Calcus is currently looking for candidate to work on her ERC starting grant SensationHL! You will investigate functional changes in the auditory pathway during adolescence, together with her team! All details can be found on our website. Feel free to share the information with anyone who might be interested!

Come work with us at the CRCN, on work package 2 - Functional changes in the auditory pathway during adolescence of 's ERC starting grant project SensationaHL. Project – The main goal of SensationaHL is to investigate the development of complex auditory processing at adolescence. Specifically, the...

21/06/2023

Wonderful news for Dr. Alison Mary, and the entire CRCN: She just obtained the (permanent) position of Chercheuse Qualifiée FNRS! Alison already worked at the UR2NF during her PhD, supervised by Philippe Peigneux, and returned to the CRCN after her postdoc in Caen, France, in 2019, where she had worked on a project headed by Pr. Francis Eustache, identifying the structural and functional neurobiological markers promoting resilience in individuals exposed to the 13th November 2015 Paris terrorist attacks. This work was conducted under the supervision of Dr. Pierre Gagnepain. She currently works on cognitive aging, sleep architecture, and functional and structural connectivity in the brain, a line of research she will continue and extend in the coming years.
Congratulations, Alison !

10/03/2023

The ULB neuroscience institute, comprised of multiple research groups interested in neuroscience across the ULB and including the CRCN, will hire a full-time research manager (logisticien·ne de recherche), to start in June 2022.

Do you have an interest in neuroscience, like to work on a diverse range of research related topics, and in close relation to both researchers and research support entities at the ULB and beyond, in English and French? This position might be for you! You can find a detailed job description, eligibility criteria and the application procedure here:https://cwfront.ulb.ac.be/greffe/modules/vac/data/sources/pdf/prod/8066.pdf

22/12/2022

We celebrated the end of the year AND the end of our ✨10th year✨as the CRCN✨ Did you know that we have 5 research groups united in one research center? if you can name all five, we might tell you some fun facts about all of them... next year! Happy Holidays to everyone!

28/10/2022

Does consciousness have a function? Do you want to work on this question in a team around Axel Cleeremans' new ERC grant EXPERIENCE? Applications for prospective PhD candidates and Postdoc positions are still open! More information here:

The Consciousness, Cognition & Computation Group of the Center for Research in Cognition & Neurosciences at the Université Libre de Bruxelles seeks applicants for two four-year Ph.D. positions and two post-doc positions funded under the EXPERIENCE Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (...

26/10/2022

The science on lucid dreams just levitated to a new level – Péter Simor, Tamás Bogdány (Eötvös Loránd University )and Philippe Peigneux propose a new, multicomponent framework in the PNAS! You can read all about it here:

Lucid dreaming (LD) is a mental state in which we realize not being awake but are dreaming while asleep. It often involves vivid, perceptually inte...

27/04/2022

For the second time, Axel Cleeremans received an ERC Advanced Grant!
The 5-year project EXPERIENCE will investigate the "why" question of consciousness: what is consciousness good for? Congratulations, Axel!
Find more information in English on our website:
https://crcn.ulb.ac.be/news/a-second-erc-advanced-grant-for-axel-cleeremans/
Et en français sur le site de l'ULB: https://actus.ulb.be/fr/actus/recherche/une-nouvelle-bourse-erc-pour-axel-cleeremans

Pour la deuxième fois, Axel Cleeremans – CRCN - bénéficie de la bourse prestigieuse décernée par le Conseil européen de la recherche. Bravo !

01/03/2022

After a good night of sleep, you feel refreshed, and you might notice the positive impact of yesterday's study session. Have you ever wondered what happens in your brain to achieve both of these aims? Prof. Sara Mednick from the University of Irvine, California, will share her research on this topic at Wednesday's connex seminar, exceptionally held at 17h Brussels time! The entire abstract as well as the link to join us online can be found here:

This will be an online seminar on Teams. Link for the seminar: https://bit.ly/3h2x5cG Two of the primary benefits of sleep are the promotion of restorative functions via the enhancement of parasympathetic activity and offline cognitive functions via reactivation of memories in thalamocortical networ...

26/01/2022

📣 POSTDOC POSITION OPENING AT THE CRCN 📣
STA(R)T TO LEARN is Julie Bertel's project on infant's statistical learning capabilities: How do these abilities develop in the first year of life? How do the constraints linked to cerebral maturation and to the infant’s experience with their environment interact with statistical learning mechanisms? How does prematurity impact the development of these abilities?
If you are interested in addressing these questions together with Julie, you can find all the practical information, and how to get in touch with her, here: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/733305