[FieldTrip] Birmingham-Leiden Summer School in Computational Social Cognition 2025

[Lei Zhang]

(sorry for cross-posting)

We are delighted to welcome applications for the second edition of the
Birmingham-Leiden
Summer School in Computational Social Cognition (CSC)
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University of Birmingham (UK), in collaboration with Leiden University
(NL), and will take place from 2nd-5th September 2025. Apply by 18th April
2025 (see information below)!



Attending the Birmingham-Leiden CSC Summer School will equip a diverse
cohort of early career researchers (trainees through to junior faculty
members) with the ability to understand, program, and interpret the output
of a range of computational models of social cognition (e.g., reinforcement
learning models, evidence accumulation models, Bayesian inference models)
and their potential interaction with other modalities of measurements
(e.g., fMRI, EEG, eye-tracking). Attendees will receive various types of
training (keynote lectures, workshops, tutorials, etc) and work on a group
project, both aimed at understanding modelling as well as the theoretical
and practical inferences that can be drawn from computational models under
social contexts.


Keynote speakers:

 - Matthew Rushworth, University of Oxford (UK)

 - Diana Tamir, Princeton University, (USA)

 - David Amodio, University of Amsterdam, (NL)


The full list of instructors is available at
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To apply, please complete this form covering your motivation and experience
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including a short CV. The deadline is 18th April 2025. Outcomes will be
communicated in early May, with registration for successful applicants then
open until mid-June.


This year, the CSC Summer School received financial support from the William
K. & Katherine W. Estes Fund in association with the Association of
Psychological Science
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We hope to see you this summer in Birmingham!


Jo (2025 co-lead), Lei (2025 co-lead), & Anna, on behalf of the CSC 2025
organising committee


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*Dr. Lei Zhang (He/Him)*

Associate Professor/Principal Investigator, Centre for Human Brain Health
(CHBH) & Institute for Mental Health (IMH)
Psychology, College of Life & Environmental Sciences
University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, Birmingham, UK

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