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Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology
Sep. 29, 2026—Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University Description The Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Science at Vanderbilt University seeks applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in the areas of cognition and cognitive neuroscience broadly defined. Position to start August 16, 2027. Our department is...
Open Rank Faculty Position in Clinical Psychology
Sep. 29, 2026—Open Rank Faculty Position in Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University Description The Clinical Psychology Program in the Department of Psychology of the College of Arts & Science at Vanderbilt University invites applications for a faculty position in Clinical Psychology at any rank, tenure-track or tenured. The Vanderbilt Clinical Psychology Program is internationally recognized...
Neuroscience Seminar Series Fall 2026
Sep. 23, 2026—Neuroscience Brown Bag: Friday’s 1:25- 2:15pm 316 Wilson Hall August 28: Suzana Herculano-Houzel, PhD, Vanderbilt University September 4: Alex Maier, PhD, Vanderbilt University September 11: Rana Mozumder, Graduate Student, Vanderbilt University September 18: Kurt Schilling, PhD, Vanderbilt University September 25: Jon Kaas, PhD, Vanderbilt University October 2: Thilo Womelsdorf, PhD, Vanderbilt University October 9: Pax...
CCN Seminar Series Fall 2026
Sep. 23, 2026—CCN Brown Bag: Thursday’s 12:10- 1pm 316 Wilson Hall August 27: Gordon Logan, PhD, Vanderbilt University September 3: Jesse Spencer Schmidt, PhD, Vanderbilt University September 10: Frank Tong, PhD, Vanderbilt University September 17: Eren Günseli, PhD, Sabanci University, Istanbul September 24: David Osher, PhD, Ohio State University October 1: Geoff Woodman, PhD, Vanderbilt University October...
Clinical Seminar Series Fall 2026
Sep. 23, 2026—Clinical Brown Bag: Tuesday 12- 1pm 316 Wilson Hall September 1: Sohee Park, PhD, Vanderbilt University September 8: Julia Sheffield, PhD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center September 15: John Purcell, PhD, Rutgers University September 22: Ali Sloan & Ankita Mohan, Graduate Students, Vanderbilt University September 29: Laura Germine, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine October 6: Sophia Kekes-Szabo,...
Chloe Hord BA ’24
Jun. 18, 2026—Chloe Hord, Vanderbilt University Class of 2024, has accepted an offer to attend the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to pursue her PhD in Clinical Psychology. In 2024 Chloe graduated from Vanderbilt magna cum laude with her B.A. in Psychology and French, with Highest Honors in French. During her undergraduate years, Chloe served...
5/13 Department Colloquium Speaker: David Freedman
May. 4, 2026—Colloquium speaker David Freedman, PhD University of Chicago Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2026 Time: 12:00- 1:00pm Location: 103 Wilson Hall Recruitment of primate oculomotor networks for abstract cognition Humans and other animals are adept at learning to perform cognitively-demanding behavioral tasks. Neurophysiological recordings in non-human primates during such tasks find that task-related cognitive variables...
4/9/26 CCN Brown Bag: Lanting Qiu
Apr. 7, 2026—CCN brown bag Lanting Qiu Date: Thursday, April 9, 2026 Time: 12:10- 1:00pm Location: 316 Wilson Hall Are there information-processing limits in conscious perception across modalities? We cannot perform two attention-demanding tasks at once, even if they do not overlap in sensory and motor modalities. By contrast, it has been claimed that two targets...
Bunmi Olatunji, PhD, Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Clinical Training
Mar. 4, 2026—Bunmi O. Olatunji, Ph.D. Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Director of Clinical Training The Emotion & Anxiety Research Laboratory (EARL) Why do some people develop anxiety disorders while others do not? What role does disgust—an emotion typically associated with contamination and disease—play in conditions like OCD and PTSD? And how...
Frank Tong has been elected to the Society of Experimental Psychologist (SEP)
Jan. 7, 2026—Congratulations to Frank Tong on being elected a fellow of the Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP). https://www.sepsych.org/ The Society of Experimentalists was founded by Edward Bradford Titchener in 1904. Titchener’s design for his “Experimentalists” was that it be an ongoing workshop, with “members visiting labs, studying apparatus, and hearing and commenting on reports of ongoing...