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 https://compsoccog.com/instructors-and-speakers. For this year’s training program and organising committee, see https://www.compsoccog.com/about.

To apply, please complete this form covering your motivation and experience, 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  

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