[visionlist] Positions Available

[Winrich Freiwald]

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

I would veyr much like to post the following job offer on the VisionScience
website and on VisionList.

Thanks a lot,

yours Winrich

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I am looking for a postdoc or graduate student enthusiastic about
understanding how visual shapes are represented in our brains.  She/he would
work with me on multi-electrode recordings from the temporal lobe of trained
macaque monkeys. The goal of this work is to figure out how shape
representations evolve along the ventral stream. This work is part of a team
effort together with Tomaso Poggio (MIT), Bob Desimone (MIT) and Christof
Koch (Caltech) aimed at "decrypting the neural code in the ventral stream of
visual cortex", and is designed to be highly collaborative. The project
follows up on earlier work on fast readout from neural populations (Hung et
al., Science 310: 863ff (2005) and dedicated mechanisms for face
representations (Tsao et al., Science 311: 670ff (2005)). In my group at the
University of Bremen's Center for Cognitive Science and Center for Advanced
Imaging we have integrated electrophysiological techniques and fMRI to
investigate mechanisms of object representation and attention. A close
collaboration exists with the group of Doris Tsao at the same institute.



The ideal candidate should have a background in electrophysiology, strong
programming skills, an interest in collaborative research with
theoreticians, and an intense curiosity about the neural mechanisms of form
perception. Starting dates for the position are negotiable, but there is a
preference for candidates who can start early.  Interested individuals
should submit a curriculum vitae, list of publications, brief statement of
research interests, and (later) letters of recommendation from two
scientific references familiar with the applicant's scientific and personal
qualifications. Application are preferably sent by email to
winrich.freiwald at googlemail.com.





Winrich Freiwald, PhD

Center for Cognitive Science & Center for Advanced Imaging

Bremen University

FR Germany
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