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Fieldtrip discussion list, <br>
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see below for details of a fully funded PhD position in Birmingham, UK.<br>
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Best wishes,<br>
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Ian Charest<br>
Lecturer, School of Psychology,<br>
University of Birmingham, UK<br>
iancharest.com<br>
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Advert:<br>
The School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham is looking for a bright and motivated PhD student to join the Charest Laboratory (iancharest.com). The PhD position to be filled is part of a project recently funded by a European Research Council Starting
Grant entitled: "Spatio-Temporal Attention and Representation Tracking: the precise neural architecture of conscious object perception" (START).<span> </span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
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Project:<span> </span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">START
is an ambitious programme of work that will make use of cutting-edge multivariate pattern analyses (MVPA) techniques to reveal the brain mechanisms that are critical for consciously perceiving visual objects in tasks that manipulate conscious access to visual
information. The ability to consciously recognise faces, objects, or sounds is crucial for adaptive behaviour and survival. Yet, how our conscious experience of the world emerges in our brain remains unknown. The overall aim of the START programme is to fill
an important gap in our understanding of consciousness by elucidating the neural underpinnings of conscious access. How does the brain select relevant information among distractors, and keep this information in mind? Why does our ability to consciously recognise
salient objects sometimes fail under pressure and exhibit variability across days and individuals? START will try to address these important questions by precisely tracking where in the brain and when in time the representations critical for conscious access
are established, by using novel approaches of Representational Similarity Analyses which combines the strengths of EEG, fMRI, and Deep Convolutional Neuronal Networks. This project will provide new insights on the precise spatio-temporal dynamics of conscious
access, the mechanisms governing it, and the idiosyncratic subtleties behind the meanderings of consciousness.<span> </span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
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candidate:<span> </span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">The
successful candidate will have (or be in the process of obtaining) a Masters degree in cognitive neuroscience or a related field. Previous experience with psychophysical tasks that manipulate conscious access in vision is desirable. Given the nature of the
project, good understanding of and experience with fMRI, EEG/MEG and data analysis is desirable. Experience in using matlab or python (and Psychtoolbox or PsychoPy) is a requirement. The successful applicant will have experience with multivariate pattern analyses
(Representational Similarity Analysis, Fisher linear discriminants, etc) of neuroimaging data. This post will require designing experiments, collecting and analysing data associated with the project, preparing manuscripts for publication, presenting results
at national and international conferences and the possible supervision of research assistants and students.<span> </span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
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School:<span> </span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">The
School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham (</span><a class="noWrap inheritFont" href="https://www.findaphd.com/common/clickCount.aspx?theid=92145&type=184&DID=148&url=http%3a%2f%2fwww.birmingham.ac.uk%2fschools%2fpsychology%2findex.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(14, 118, 188); text-decoration: none; font-family: Roboto, arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; word-break: break-word; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/psychology/index.aspx</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">)
is one of the largest and most successful in the UK, currently ranked in the top 5 Schools in the country (REF 2014). The School is soon to move to new accommodation in the form of a fully refurbished, purpose-designed space and a new-build Centre for Human
Brain Health that will house our new MRI, MEG, EEG, NIRS, sleep lab, and the recently appointed Chair in Translational Neuroscience. The University of Birmingham is an equal opportunities employer. The School of Psychology has a Bronze Athena SWAN award and
strives to maintain a flexible and supportive environment that enables its staff to flourish.<span> </span></span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
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informal enquiries about the project please contact Dr. Ian Charest (</span><a class="emailLink" data-email-addr="32d466ac4c32bb7c581a42f29576652715f707cd8eb926e1ede12d895d13bec2" data-email-name="i.charest@bham.ac.uk" data-stattype="2" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(14, 118, 188); text-decoration: none; font-family: Roboto, arial; word-break: break-word; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">i.charest@bham.ac.uk</a><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Roboto, arial; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 100; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">).
Formal applications must be made via the postgraduate admissions system in the School of Psychology. Applicants are encouraged to attach to their application a short and original project proposal (500 words).<span>
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