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PhD student for 'Neural Mechanisms of Perceptual Decisions'
Organization: Radboud University Nijmegen
Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands
Field: Medical sciences
Requirements:
You have a Master’s degree (or equivalent) in a field related to cognitive neuroscience (e.g., experimental/cognitive psychology, biology, artificial intelligence). However, excellent candidates from other backgrounds will also be considered. Programming skills (e.g., Matlab) and demonstrable prior experience in scientific research are highly desirable
Abstract:
The Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour currently has a vacancy at the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging for a PhD student to work on the Neural Mechanisms of Perceptual Decisions project.
Description:
The Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour currently has a vacancy at the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging for a PhD student to work on the Neural Mechanisms of Perceptual Decisions project. The goal of this project is to investigate how different kinds of top-down factors such as attention and expectation influence conscious and unconscious visual perception and relevant neural mechanisms. You will make use of behavioural experiments in healthy participants and state-of-the-art psychophysical/neuroimaging methods (MEG, fMRI, TMS, eye tracking) to investigate how conscious and unconscious visual perception is shaped by top-down factors. The project is a collaborative project between Dr. Floris de Lange (Donders Institute, Nijmegen, Netherlands) and Dr. Hakwan Lau (Columbia University, New York, USA). You will work primarily at the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, which is part of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (http://www.ru.nl/donders/). This is an internationally renowned centre for cognitive neuroimaging, which currently hosts more than 100 PhD students and post-doctoral researchers of many different nationalities. We offer a unique, multidisciplinary working and learning environment with possibilities to develop expertise in a diversity of research areas and techniques. The work will also involve occasional visits to New York and collaboration with researchers in Dr Lau’s laboratory at Columbia.
You will be appointed as a PhD student (1 FTE) for a period of 4 years. Your performance will be evaluated after 18 months. If the evaluation is positive, the contract will be extended by 2½ years. The gross starting salary is € 2,042 per month, which will increase to € 2,612 (fourth year). P-scale.
Deadline: 01-05-2011
Contacts:
Link: http://www.ru.nl
Email: vacatures@dpo.ru.nl
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