(For general background about cognitive and behavioural neuroscience research at Sussex, see the Research pages.)
The following Group Leaders are offering projects on the 4-Year PhD Programme:
- Professor Aldo Badiani - Mechanisms of addiction and addictive behaviour
- Dr Chris Bird - Cognitive neuroscience of memory
- Dr Jenny Bosten - Ecological strategies of colour vision
- Dr Dan Campbell-Meiklejohn - Neural and cognitive models of social decisions
- Professor Hugo Critchley - Psychiatry; affective neuroscience; autonomic psychophysiology; neuroimaging; consciousness science
- Dr Hans Crombag - Mechanisms of appetite, learning and addiction
- Professor Dora Duka - Cognitive and emotional mechanisms of addiction by alcohol and nicotine
- Professor Anna Franklin - Cognition and cognitive development especially in colour vision
- Dr Sarah Garfinkel - Body-brain interactions in emotion and memory
- Dr Paul Graham - Insect visual navigation
- Dr Catherine Hall - How the brain uses and is supplied with energy
- Dr Sarah King - Inhibitory circuits influencing addition
- Dr Eisuke Koya - Neuronal ensembles involved in learned behaviours
- Dr Emiliano Merlo - Mechanisms that control memory maintenance and inhibition
- Dr Alexa Morcom - Cognitive neuroscience of memory, and memory in healthy ageing
- Dr Andy Philippides - Insect navigation: a computational approach
- Dr Charlotte Rae - Cognitive neuroscience of adaptive behavioural control
- Professor Jenny Rusted - Psychopharmacology of human memory, and memory decline in Alzheimer's disease and other brain disorders
- Professor Anil Seth - Characterizing neural dynamics underlying conscious contents using simultaneous brain stimulation and EEG
- Dr Natasha Sigala - Brain mechanisms of visual perception and memory
- Professor Julia Simner - Multisensory language and perception in synaesthesia and savant syndrome
- Dr Bryan Singer - Individual variation in synaptic neurobiology underlying incentive motivation and addiction
- Professor Jamie Ward - Synaesthesia - cognitive neuroscience of multisensory perception