Undergrad Research or Opportunity

Research Assistant Position: Sleep, Cognition, and Neuropsychiatry

Research Assistant Position: Sleep, Cognition and Neuropsychiatry
Dr. Dara Manoach, Sleep, Cognition, and Neuropsychiatry (SCAN) Lab, Mass General Hospital / Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
fall term


The SCAN Lab is seeking a volunteer Undergraduate Research Assistant. We are currently conducting investigations on the contribution of abnormal sleep to cognitive deficits,...

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Research Assistant Positions: Cognitive Development and Learning

Research Assistant Positions: Cognitive Development and Learning (Behavioral Studies, Computational Models, & Education Research)
Elizabeth Bonawitz, Computational Cognitive Development Lab, School of Education
fall term

Research Description: My research bridges Cognitive Development, Computational Modeling, and Education to inform our understanding of human learning. Specifically, I study the structure of children's early causal beliefs, how evidence and prior beliefs interact to affect...

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Research Assistant Position: Introspective Accuracy in Judgment and Decision-Making

Research Assistant Position: Introspective Accuracy in Judgment and Decision-Making
Adam Morris and Professor Fiery Cushman, Psychology/FAS
fall term

 

How well can people perceive the workings of their own minds? This is a fundamental question in cognitive science, but a difficult one to measure. In this project, we will develop measures of introspective accuracy in judgment and decision-making -- i.e. how well people can perceive the...

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Research Assistant Positions: Cognitive Development (Spelke)

Research Assistant Positions: Cognitive Development
Professor Elizabeth Spelke, Laboratory for Developmental Studies at Harvard & Harvard-MIT Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines
fall term


Seeking interested and motivated students to assist with research in Prof. Elizabeth Spelke's cognitive development lab, under the aegis of the Laboratory for Developmental Studies and the...

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Research Assistant Position: Neural Architecture and Behavior (spring and summer)

Research Assistant Position: Neural Architecture and Behavior
Dr. Sasha Rayshubskiy, Rowland Institute, Harvarrd University
Spring and Summer 2021


Our lab is interested in neural architectures that define persistent states in animal behavior. For example, how does the brain configure the motor control system to coordinate movements during the persistent state of cooking and how is it configured differently when we’re in a persistent state of playing...

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Research Assistant Positions: Cognitive Development in Infants

Research Assistant Positions: Cognitive Development in Infants
Professor Elizabeth Spelke, Laboratory for Developmental Studies, Psychology/FAS and Harvard-MIT Center for Brainsk, Minds, and Machines
Spring 2021 (remote research environment)



Seeking interested and motivated students to assist with research in Prof. Elizabeth Spelke's cognitive development lab, under the aegis...

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Undergraduate Research Assistant Positions: Developing and Aging Brains, Law and Applied Neuroscience (summer)

Undergraduate Research Assistant Positions: Developing and Aging Brains, Law and Applied Neuroscience
Dr. Francis Shen, Dr. Judith Edersheim, Dr. Bruce Price, Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience, Harvard/Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior and Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics
Summer 2021 (June-August) (paid positions) (application deadline for first reviews February 1st, 2021)


As the intersection of law and neuroscience rapidly evolves, the...

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