[vslist] iLab - Postdoctoral position in fMRI/psychophysics of attentional modulation

[Laurent Itti]

iLab - Postdoctoral position in fMRI/psychophysics of attentional
modulation

The iLab at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles,
California (http://iLab.usc.edu) has one opening for a postdoctoral
position in functional neuroimaging and human psychophysics. iLab is a
joint Computer Science, Neuroscience and Psychology laboratory with
particular research focus on vision, visual attention, scene
understanding and neuromorphic engineering. The opening is for a joint
research project with Dr. Thomas Ernst at Brookhaven National
Laboratories (BNL), New York. The research involves designing and
programming psychophysical experiments which tease apart the
modulatory effect of visual attention on early visual processing, on
Linux machines using Matlab/OpenGL; running experiments on human
subjects at USC; repeating the experiments on the trained subjects, at
BNL in a 4-Tesla Varian fMRI scanner; and developing a computational
model of early visual processing which quantitatively links the
psychophysical, fMRI and modeling results. This study is to extend our
previous findings (Lee, Itti, Koch & Braun, Nat Neurosci,
2(4):375-381, 1999; Itti, Koch & Braun, JOSA-A, 17(11):1899-1917,
2000) in a number of novel directions.

The successful applicant is expected to have extensive knowledge of
the Linux operating system and programming of visual psychophysics
stimuli, of fMRI processing using SPM, and of computational modeling.
Although a relatively new laboratory, iLab provides state-of-the-art
facilities, including a 16-CPU Beowulf computer cluster with 1/2TB of
disk space for data processing and model simulations, and a 1TB
DVD-RAM jukebox for data archival. Please see http://iLab.usc.edu for
further information. The successful applicant will have the
opportunity to supervise one or two graduate students on this project.
USC is located at the heart of Los Angeles, 15-30 minutes from
Hollywood, Beverly Hills, the San Bernardino mountains and the pacific
ocean. Salary will be commensurate to experience and skills. Funds for
salary, equipment, psychophysics subjects and travel, as well as the
present position are available immediately (April 2002).

Please send a CV, two or three letters of recommendation, a brief
description of past research, and a brief statement of research
interests and goals.  Please send applications or requests for more
information to Laurent Itti, University of Southern California, Hedco
Neuroscience Building - Room 30A, 3641 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA
90089-2520 or by email at itti@usc.edu.


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Laurent Itti - University of Southern California - Computer Science Dept.
Hedco Neuroscience Bldg HNB30A, 3641 Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520
itti@pollux.usc.edu - Tel/Fax: +1(213)740-3527/5687 - http://iLab.usc.edu
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