Independent research and field-building. Remote-first, headquartered in Boston.
Cognition Futures
Contribute to the Cognition Futures paper series exploring connections between spatial navigation, affordance perception, epistemic orientation, and moral reasoning. The series argues that these capacities share a common computational architecture (hippocampal-entorhinal system) and that affordance perception may serve as a "common currency" for comparing diverse intelligences.
The intern would conduct literature review, help develop arguments for Papers II and III in the series, and contribute to the researcher tracking database. The Embodied Intelligence Conference 2026 paper anchors this work.
Graduate students in cognitive science, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, computational neuroscience, or related fields. Familiarity with spatial cognition, place cells/grid cells, or embodied cognition literature is a strong plus.
Or email start@jopro.org with your statement of interest and CV.