[vslist] Postdoc in Visual Cognition at MIT

[Mary C Potter]

Postdoctoral position in visual cognition, attention, and memory

An NIMH-supported postdoctoral position is available for one year with the
possibility of renewal, to study attention and visual cognition in human
subjects in the lab of Molly Potter. Recent research in my lab includes
RSVP studies of attentional competition between targets at short SOAs,
studies of memory for glimpsed pictures, detection of targets in RSVP
presentations when multiple pictures are presented on each frame, the
effects of semantic priming and sentence context on perception, and the
perceptual interaction between background setting and foreground objects.

The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences offers a good environment
for researchers, with many active cognitive and vision labs and a rich
program of talks and seminars.

The candidate should have a Ph.D. in experimental psychology or a related
field. A background in cognitive or psychophysical research will be
helpful. Experience in computational modeling is desirable but not
essential. Salary will be based on experience and will be consistent with
NIH recommendations.

Send (preferably by email) a CV, a statement of research interests, and
names of three references, to Mary C. Potter (mpotter@mit.edu). I will be
happy to meet with anyone who is interested, at the Vision Sciences
Society meeting: I will be there from May 1-4, staying at the Hyatt.

Molly Potter

MIT is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Mary C. Potter
Professor of Psychology
NE20-453
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
MIT
Cambridge, MA 02139
617-253-5526