Jan 18, 2013

Johns Hopkins Summer Internship Opportunities!

Summer Internship Opportunity
Full-Time
The Vision Sciences Group of Johns Hopkins University
May 29, 2013- July 31, 2013

Description:
Each summer the Vision Sciences Group at Johns Hopkins University offers a limited number of internships for college undergraduates, under the supervision of Dr. Jonathan Flombaum and Dr. Justin Halberda. Interns will gain experience with current behavioral techniques for investigating visual attention, working memory, and a number of fields within Cognitive Psychology. Interns will work closely with both professors and with graduate students and postdocs in the lab along with a number of other summer interns from around the country. Each intern will focus on an individual project and carry out data collection and analysis under the direction of the lab.
Responsibilities:
-Recruit and contact research participants
-Run experiments with adults
-Code and enter data
-Prepare materials for studies
-Participate in reading group led by graduate students and lab researchers
-Attend weekly lab meetings

Qualifications/Requirements:
-Must be a psychology, computer science, cognitive science, or neuroscience major
-Must have previous research experience
-Must have programming skills
-Must be highly organized and reliable

Compensation:
-$1,500 stipend may be awarded for full-time commitment

How To Apply:
Please e-mail application, resume, cover letter, unofficial transcripts, and two letters of recommendation to visionlabjhu.summer2013@gmail.com Application deadline is February 28, 2013.

For more information go to:
http://www.jhuvisionsciencesgroup.org/ or http://psy.jhu.edu/~visionandcognition/

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