Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences

Internship Application

Please fill out this form in English or in German.

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Personal information and details

*	Title	Mr Mrs Ms Mx
*	First Name
*	Last Name
*	Date of birth	month day year
*	Email address
	Home City

Internship preferences

* Time period for internship (at least 8 weeks within the period indicated):

(you may indicate more than one, if applicable)

Please note that you have to be enrolled in either a Bachelor's or a Master's program, that is, at the time of the internship.

yes no	Winter break (Feb - Apr)	Application deadline: 30 November of previous year
yes no	Summer term (Apr - Aug)	Application deadline: 28 February of same year
yes no	Summer break (Aug - Oct)	Application deadline: 31 May of same year
yes no	Winter term (Oct - Feb)	Application deadline: 31 August of same year

Comment on time period for internship:

Type of internship:

Required internship Voluntary internship

* Primary field of interest...

Please indicate your preferences for six research fields you are interested in (1 = top priority, 6 = lowest priority). You can find more information regarding our departments and research groups on our homepage.

	Department of Neuropsychology

*	Neurocognition of Language Processing
*	Neurocognition of Language Learning
*	Second Language Acquisition
*	Child Lab

	Department of Neurology


*	"The O'Brain Project" Neurobiology of decision making in obesity
*	"The O'Brain Project" Computational Modelling in obesity
*	Genes, aging and Obesity
*	Mind& Body& Emotion& Hypertension Group
*	Brain networks in Stroke
*	Neuroplasticity and Motor Recovery
*	Motor Plasticity Group
*	Somatosensory Group
*	Plasticity of Language
*	Music Evoked Brain Plasticity
*	Neuropsychology Group
*	In vivo brain morphology and parcellation
*	EGG-Lab
*	Cognitive Neuropsychiatry
*	Focused Ultrasound Group

	Department of Neurophysics

*	Research Group "Anatomical Analysis of the Organization of the Human and Non-Human Primate Brain"
*	ERC-Project (hMRI)

	Department of Psychology

*	Cognitive Space
*	Navigation and Spatioal Memory
*	Episodic Memory
*	Decision-Making

	Max Planck Research Groups

*	Lise Meitner Research Group "Cognition and Plasticity"
*	Max Planck Research Group "Adaptive Memory"
*	Max Planck Research Group "Early Social Cognition"
*	Max Planck Research Group "Language Cycles"
*	Otto Hahn Group "Neural Bases of Intonation in Speech and Music"
*	Max Planck Research Group "Pain Perception"
*	Research Group "Social Stress and Family Health"

*	Lise Meitner Research Group Cognition and Plasticity
*	Max Planck Research Group Adaptive Memory
*	Max Planck Research Group Pain Perception
*	Max Planck Research Group Language Cycles
*	Research Group Social Stress and Family health
*	Minerva Research Group EGG (Emotions & neuroimaGinG)-Laboratory
*	Max Planck Research Group Vision and Computational Cognition
*	Minerva Fast Track Group Milestones of Early Cognitive Development
*	Cognitive Neurogenetics
*	Research Group Learning in Early Childhood

	Methods & Development Groups

*	Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
*	Brain Networks
*	Databases and IT

Special interest for specific experimental methods

(you may indicate more than one, if applicable)

behavioral techniques (e.g., reaction time measurements)
fMRI
EEG / ERP
MEG
TMS

University education and previous knowledge

*	University
*	Major subject
	Minor subject
*	Semester

Grade of diploma achieved so far:

*	Intermediate exam / Bachelor / Intermediate examination	yes no
*	Grade
*	Date of graduation	month day year
*	Diploma / Master / Magister	yes no
*	Grade
*	Date of graduation	month day year

Which languages do you speak?

Please list the language(s) and judge your own knowledge on a scale of 1 to 7
(1 = basic knowledge, 7 = spoken and written fluently)

	Language 1
	Language 2
	Language 3
	Language 4

Please list all classes you have attended which are of relevance to the work at our institute (e.g., from the fields of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, neuroanatomy, psychophysiological methods, psycholinguistics, and developmental psychology). Please indicate the general field, the exact topic, the type of class (lecture, seminar...) and (if applicable) the finale grade (1 = excellent, 6 = failed, no = no grade was given or is available at the moment).

General Field	Topic	Type	Grade

Computer skills

*	Have you ever worked with a computer?	yes no
*	If so, for how long (years)?

*	How do you judge your own computer skills? minimal / none basic (Knowledge of terms such as file, folder, operating system, software etc.) advanced (Knowledge of specific software or programming languages)

In the following questions, you may check more than one answer.

	How did you acquire your computer skills?	Courses (University, private courses...) self-taught

	On what occasions do you use a computer?	private (at home) work / education

	What do you use a computer primarily for?	word processing data base graphics internet entertainment / games programming other:

	What operation system(s) / type(s) of computer are you familiar with?	PC Mac Workstation DOS Windows UNIX / LINUX OS/2 other:

	If you have any programming knowledge, indicate in which programming language.	C / C ++ Batch (DOS) Perl / AwK Pascal UNIX-Shell PostScript Basic Matlab other:

	Do you have any experience using statistics software?	SAS SPSS R others:

	Do you have any experience using acoustic analysis software?	Praat Nero Soundwave Cooledit / Adobe Audition Rezound other:

	Do you have any experience using stimulus presentation software?	ERTS E-Prime Presentation DMDX other:

	Do you have any experience in the analysis of experimental data?	fMRI (preprocessing etc.) reaction time (statistics etc.) EEG (using filters, artifact rejection etc.) other:

Practical and work experience

	Do you have any practical experience conducting ...	reaction time studies EEG-experiments fMRI-experiments other experimental methods:

	Have you previously had an internship? If so, where and when?

	Have you ever worked as a tutor, teaching assistant etc.? If so, please explain briefly the type of work you did, and state the institute / university you worked at and for how long.

	Do you have any other practical experience that might be relevant for your application for an internship, such as university courses, par- time jobs etc.?

File upload (PDF)

*	CV incl. photo
*	Letter of motivation (1 page)
	Certificates/references

Additional information

Date: 06/29/2025

This registration system has been created by S. Greber and W. Grieger, GWDG, Göttingen, based on Lotus Software.