The Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience Division at Department of Psychology, University of Miami seeks highly motivated and creative Ph.D. students in our efforts to understand the brain and mind. 

Applications for entry in the Fall of 2025 are now being accepted, with a deadline of December 1st. For details, including contact information, please visit https://www.psy.miami.edu/graduate/how-to-apply/index.html .

The Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience Division at Department of Psychology, University of Miami offers a unique program of study spanning neurobiology, behavior, computational and brain imaging research on topics of emotion, mindfulness, learning and memory, mental disorders and health. 

A listing of faculty affiliated with the division can be found online at https://www.psy.miami.edu/research/faculty-research/index.html and below. 

Jennifer C. Britton (not accepting student this year) – Anxiety, development, executive function (e.g., flexibility), emotion, empathy; behavior, virtual reality, psychophyisology, neuroimaging 

Mingbo Cai – spontaneous thought, reinforcement learning, computational modeling, neuroimaging, brain-inspired AI

Ekaterina Denkova - cognitive and affective processes, mindfulness training, memory and thoughts

Aaron Heller – neuroimaging, experience sampling, computational modeling, emotion, depression, anxiety

Amishi Jha – mindfulness training, attention, neuroimaging, EEG 

Philip M. McCabe (not accepting student this year) – neurobiology, emotion, atherosclerosis, animal models

Roger C. McIntosh – aging, stress reactivity, inflammation, neuroimaging