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<p class="MsoNormal">PhD position, University of Birmingham: Identifying the Role of Conscious Perception, a Neuroimaging and Computational Investigation<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Howard Bowman and Damian Cruse, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham are seeking applications for this PhD project, which is competition-funded under the Midlands Integrative Biosciences Training Partnership (supported by the
UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council). The deadline for applications is Friday, January 20, 2023; a percentage of the available scholarships can be allocated to non-UK students. Informal enquires can be made to
<a href="mailto:H.Bowman@kent.ac.uk">H.Bowman@kent.ac.uk</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The question of what conscious perception is for remains a key issue for science. In fact, a substantial part of the scientific study of consciousness has focused on showing how sophisticated subconscious processing can be, seemingly leaving
little room for a “special” purpose for conscious experience.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have recently presented evidence that the subconscious brain is limited in its capacity to represent episodic information (Avilés, Bowman & Wyble, 2020; Bowman & Avilés, In Press; Bowman et al, 2014). We now have extensive behavioural
evidence for this hypothesis. We are thus at a perfect stage to 1) characterise the neural correlates (with fMRI, MEG or EEG) that support this formation of episodic memories, and 2) explain these findings with the Simultaneous Type/ Serial Token (STST) model
(Bowman & Wyble, 2007), a neural network model of temporal attention. We are proposing a PhD to work on one or both of these topics.
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<p class="MsoNormal">More details can be found at,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/mibtp/pgstudy/phd_opportunities/neurosciencebehaviour2023/neuroimagingand__;!!HJOPV4FYYWzcc1jazlU!-2wgsWrgR6_7-R4oIpWCqKVQBjk99i58a5ctch54uZaD6ur1g97j4z2vcjx7EK8ENixqNS36YmBlOc_JyKBpobWc$">https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/mibtp/pgstudy/phd_opportunities/neurosciencebehaviour2023/neuroimagingand</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/mibtp/__;!!HJOPV4FYYWzcc1jazlU!-2wgsWrgR6_7-R4oIpWCqKVQBjk99i58a5ctch54uZaD6ur1g97j4z2vcjx7EK8ENixqNS36YmBlOc_JyCicdD_w$">https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/mibtp/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Professor Howard Bowman (PhD)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Professor of Cognition & Logic in Computing at Uni Kent, and</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in Psychology at Uni Birmingham</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(honorary at Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and Cognitive Systems and the School of Computing, University of Kent at Canterbury, Canterbury, Kent, CT2 7NF, UK</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">email:
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue"><a href="mailto:H.Bowman@kent.ac.uk"><span lang="FR" style="color:blue">H.Bowman@kent.ac.uk</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="PL" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">WWW:
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/hb5/__;!!HJOPV4FYYWzcc1jazlU!-2wgsWrgR6_7-R4oIpWCqKVQBjk99i58a5ctch54uZaD6ur1g97j4z2vcjx7EK8ENixqNS36YmBlOc_JyDPNJ-ij$" target="_blank"><span lang="PL" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/hb5/</span></a></span><span lang="PL" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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