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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Please forward to anyone who might be interested.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">A 3 year PhD studentship
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">in auditory cognitive neuroscience<span style="color:black"> is available
</span>as part of a research collaboration between the UCL Ear Institute (London, UK) and NTT Communication Science Labs (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone corporation, Atsugi, Japan). The student will be based
<span style="color:black">at the UCL Ear Institute</span> and supervised by Dr. Maria Chait. They will also be working with Prof. Makio Kashino and Dr. Shigeto Furukawa (NTT). The project
<span style="color:black">will use psychophysics, eye tracking, autonomic response measures and MEG functional brain imaging </span>to investigate which features of sound are perceptually salient. Namely, those sounds that automatically capture attention in
a busy scene, even when listeners’ initial perceptual focus is elsewhere. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The UCL Ear Institute provides state-of-the-art research facilities across a wide range of disciplines and is
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">one of the foremost centres for hearing, speech and language-related research within Europe.<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Key Requirements<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The PhD start date would be September 2013. <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>Applicants should have a UK/EU nationality and a
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">1<sup>St</sup> class, or upper 2<sup>nd</sup>
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. Psychology, Neuroscience, Engineering). The PhD work would require good programming skills (e.g. in Matlab).
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Previous experience with auditory research, functional brain imaging, signal processing and/or acoustics is desirable.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For an informal discussion, or to submit an application please contact Dr. Maria Chait (</span></b><a href="mailto:m.chait@ucl.ac.uk"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">m.chait@ucl.ac.uk</span></b></a><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">).
Applicants should submit a supporting statement, a CV, and the details of two academic referees.
</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The closing date for receipt of applications is July 15th, 2013.</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The studentship includes fees and a yearly stipend (about
£16000; tax free). </span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Maria Chait PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="mailto:m.chait@ucl.ac.uk"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">m.chait@ucl.ac.uk</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Senior Lecturer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">UCL Ear Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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