[visionlist] Postdoc opening in computational affective visual neuroscience

[sonia bishop]

Hi all, I was hoping to further distribute the ad below. I am especially
looking for candidates interesting in applying computational approaches to
studying how emotional salience influences (brain-based) representation of
visual stimuli.

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From: sonia bishop <sbishop at berkeley.edu>
Date: 27 January 2013 18:11
Subject: Postdoc opening in computational/cognitive affective neuroscience
To: FSL - FMRIB's Software Library <FSL at jiscmail.ac.uk>


The Affective Cognitive Neuroscience Lab lead by Sonia Bishop
http://bishoplab.berkeley.edu/index.html currently has an opening for a
postdoc to be primarily based at UC Berkeley, CA, with opportunities to
also work at fMRIB, Oxford University, Oxford. Currently funded by both NIH
and the European Research Council, our group is interested in how stimulus
emotional salience impacts different aspects of human cognitive and brain
function. The lab has done much work in the area of attentional processes
(and their dysregulation in anxiety) and associative learning (e.g. fear
conditioning). This is currently being extended into work on decision
making (with Tim Behrens) and visual processing (with Jack Gallant) and we
are keen to attract a postdoctoral candidate with experience (or aptitude
and interest) pertaining to computational approaches (e.g. Bayesian
modeling of fMRI data; construction of encoding and decoding models using
regularized regression). Programming experience is essential (e.g. C++,
matlab, python) and fMRI experience highly desirable. The start date is
flexible. Both UC Berkeley and Oxford University have outstanding
facilities for, and expertise in, cognitive and computational neuroscience
including 3T scanners (both sites), a 7T scanner (Oxford) and the Redwood
Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience (UCB). Eminent researchers in fields
ranging from affective science to cognitive neuroscience and computational
vision are also present at the two sites. Please contact Prof Bishop on
sbishop at berkeley.edu for further information.
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