[visionlist] Research Studentship

[Alan Johnston]

Research Studentship

Department of Psychology

University College London

 

Applications for are invited for a 3 year Research Studentship funded by a
research grant on “Vision-based mechanisms of time perception” from the
Leverhulme Trust (£12,300 p.a., with UK/EU fee waiver). Recent work in Prof
Johnston’s laboratory has shown that adaptation to movement and temporal
flicker can cause a reduction in the perceived duration of sub-second events
for stimuli presented in the adapted region of visual space. The project
aims to use psychophysical techniques to select out components of the visual
system such as the magnocellular pathway, which encodes temporal change, and
neural mechanisms in the lateral parietal area (LIP), that are believed to
be associated with the re-alignment of visual coordinate frames after a
saccade, both of which have recently been implicated in visual time
perception. The applicant will join a team working on time perception in a
well equipped interdisciplinary vision laboratory
(http://www.psychol.ucl.ac.uk/vision/index.html). The Psychology Department
and the wider UCL vision community provide an excellent environment for
post-graduate research. Applicants should have (or expect to be awarded) a
good 2.1, first class degree or an MSc in a relevant discipline. The
studentship can be taken up at any time before the 1st October 2007.
Enquiries and initial applications in the form of a letter of interest and
CV with the names to two academic referees should be sent to Prof Alan
Johnston, Department of Psychology, University College London, Gower Street,
London, WC1E 6BT. a.johnston at ucl,ac.uk (Tel. 02076795310) by 23rd February
2007. 

 

 

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