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Fwd: PhD position "Mechanisms of top-down control in the accumulation of sensory evidence"

by Gary Green

FYI ----------------------------------------- PhD position at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior. /Mechanisms of top-down control in the accumulation of sensory evidence/ Many studies have shown neurophysiological correlates of top-down factors in perception (e.g., attention and expectation) which are already active prior to the sampling of sensory evidence. One of the puzzling observations in this line of investigation is the rather weak relation between these anticipatory neurophysiological signals (typically, modulations of oscillatory activity) and perception (most importantly, accuracy). The overall objective of this project is to identify additional neurophysiological processes that explain behavioral accuracy and its modulation by attention. The main working hypothesis that guides us in this search is that one should not only investigate anticipatory neural activity but also the neural activity during the accumulation of sensory evidence. The objectives of this research project will be addressed in experiments in which extracranial neural signals are recorded using Magnetoencephalography (MEG). Within the Donders Institute (DI), you will belong to the research group Neurophysiology of Active Perception (PI Eric Maris). As this is a collaborative project within the DI, you will also be affiliated to the research groups Prediction & Attention (PI Floris de Lange) and Neuronal Oscillations (PI Ole Jensen). A successful candidate has a Master' s degree in a field at the interface of behavior and neurobiology (Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurobiology, Cognitive Science) and excellent analytic and quantitative skills. Programming skills (e.g., Matlab) are required, and it is an advantage if you have experience in running EEG or MEG experiments. Please include with your application: - a curriculum vitae, including academic qualifications, grades, a list of publications (if applicable), and the names and contact details of two referees; - a letter explaining your motivation, your interest in the project, and your competence in the research field;" Closing date: 2012-9-15 Employment start date: 2012-10-15 Contract length: 4 years Contact Information: Dr. Eric Maris E-mail: e.maris(a)donders.ru.nl <mailto:e.maris@donders.ru.nl> Website: http://www.nphyscog.com www.nphyscog.com/contact <http://www.nphyscog.com/>

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Fwd: PhD position

by Gary Green

apologies for cross-postings Gary ---------------------------- Dear colleagues, I would like to bring your attention to the PhD position below. All the best, Ole Jensen ----------------- PhD position for 3 years at the Dept. of Cognitive Neuroscience/Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience http://www.academictransfer.com/employer/UM/vacancy/14845/lang/en/ An attractive 3 year PhD position funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific research (NWO) is now being offered at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience/Dept. of Cognitive Neuroscience. Job description An attractive 3-year PhD position funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific research (NWO) is now being offered by Maastricht University (UM). The project aims to use oscillatory human brain activity as a tool to investigate changes in neural communication in elderly as compared to matched, adult controls. Changes in neural communication will be investigated using visual paradigms in which effects of variations in stimulus parameters, attention and learning will be investigated. The project will be done in a collaborative context involving Dr. O. Jensen (Donders Institute, RUN), Dr. M. Roberts (Cognitive Neuroscience Department, UM), and Dr. P. De Weerd (Cognitive Neuroscience Department, UM). The research will be carried out in Nijmegen, in the Donders Institute for Neuroimaging. The PhD candidate will be part of the Donders Graduate School of Cognitive Neuroscience, and will obtain his/her PhD in Maastricht. Requirements The ideal candidate would have experience with EEG/MEG, and with Matlab, and would have a general interest in the link between cognition and oscillatory brain activity, and in cognitive ageing. A 2-year research master diploma is required to be eligible to apply. Conditions of employment Temporary employment for 3 years. Your salary would be € 2.042,-- gross per month in the first year up to € 2.612,-- gross per month in the last year according to the PhD-student salary scale. Each year an evaluation will take place. Contract type: Temporary, 3 years Organisation http://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/ Maastricht University is renowned for its unique, innovative, problem-based learning system, which is characterized by a small-scale and student-oriented approach. Research at UM is characterized by a multidisciplinary and thematic approach, and is concentrated in research institutes and schools. Maastricht University has around 14,500 students and 3,800 employees. Reflecting the university's strong international profile, a fair amount of both students and staff are from abroad. The university hosts 6 faculties: Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Faculty of Law, School of Business and Economics, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience. For more information please contact prof. P. De Weerd . Email: p.deweerd(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl / Phone: 00 31 43 3884513 Closing data: 12/8/2012 -- Ole Jensen http://www.neuosc.com

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Fwd: postdoc position in neuroimaging of decision-making

by Gary Green

FYI --------------------------- Dear friends and colleagues, I include below details of a postdoc position on functional and neurochemical imaging of decision-making. I would be grateful if you circulated to your groups and colleagues (apologies for cross-posting). Many thanks and happy summer, Anastasia Dr Anastasia Christakou Centre for Integrative Neuroscience & Neurodynamics School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences University of Reading anastasia.christakou.org <http://anastasia.christakou.org> ********* *Postdoctoral Research Assistant* ********* Job reference : *RS12039* Application closing date : 30-July-2012 Location : University of Reading, UK Salary : Grade 6 £27,578 to £35,938 per annum Package : School of Psychology & Clinical Language Sciences, full-time, fixed term for three years and starts in October 2012 Job category/type : Fixed Term, Full time, Research http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/science/jobs/272066-Postdoctoral-Research-… Job description : We seek a talented postdoc to join us in investigating the role of corticostriatal connectivity and neurochemistry in decision-making using human brain imaging. The post is part of an international multidisciplinary research project funded by the Human Frontier Science Program. The ideal candidate will have experience with multiple neuroimaging modalities, strong programming skills, and a demonstrable interest in interdisciplinary research. You will have: - fMRI experience - Strong analytic skills - Scripting/programming skills - Cognitive / neuropsychological testing - Ability to work independently and as part of a team - Excellent English language communication Experience in MR spectroscopy and/or interest in systems and behavioural neuroscience would be an advantage. For informal enquiries please contact the PI: Dr Anastasia Christakou anastasia.christakou(a)reading.ac.uk <mailto:anastasia.christakou@reading.ac.uk> Further Particulars: http://www.reading.ac.uk/about/jobs/docs/RS12039.pdf To apply on-line please visit: Reading Jobs <https://www.reading.ac.uk/about/jobs/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107G…> Alternatively, if you wish to apply using a hardcopy form please email recruitment(a)reading.ac.uk <mailto:recruitment@reading.ac.uk> or contact Human Resources, University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 217, Reading RG6 6AH or Telephone +44(0)118 378 6771 <tel:%2B44%280%29118%20378%206771> (voicemail). To view job details or apply on-line visit: https://www.reading.ac.uk/about/jobs/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107G… <https://www.reading.ac.uk/about/jobs/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107G…>

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Fwd: [JOB] Postdoctoral Positions on Image Segmentation and Registration

by Gary Green

FYI ------------------------ Several postdoctoral positions are available in IDEA lab (https://www.med.unc.edu/bric/ideagroup), UNC-Chapel Hill, NC. Position 1 (Deformable Segmentation): The successful candidate should have a strong background on Electrical or Biomedical Engineering, or Computer Science, preferably with emphasis on image feature extraction, shape representation, and shape statistics. Experience on medical image segmentation using deformable surface, level sets, and graph cut is highly desirable. People with machine learning background on image features and shape statistics are particularly encouraged to apply. Strong knowledge on programming (good command of LINUX, C and C++, scripting, and Matlab) are desirable. The research topic will be the development and validation of statistical deformable segmentation methods for prostate and brain. Position 2 (Brain Image Registration): The successful candidate should have a strong background on Electrical or Biomedical Engineering, or Computer Science, preferably with emphasis on image analysis, or computer vision. Experience on medical image registration and analysis is highly desirable. People with group-wise registration or 4D registration are particularly encouraged to apply. Knowledge on neuroscience and programming background (good command of LINUX, C and C++, scripting, and Matlab) are desirable. The research topic will be the development and validation of 3D, 4D, and group-wise image registration methods for brain image analysis. The successful candidates will be part of a diverse group including radiologists, psychologists, physicists, biostatistician, and computer scientists, and will build upon the group's previous work on medical image analysis. If interested, please email resume to Dr. Dinggang Shen (dgshen(a)med.unc.edu).

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Fwd: Post-Doctoral position in Computational Morphometry -- University of Geneva

by Gary Green

FYI ------------------------------ Post-Doctoral applications are invited at the Department of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Geneva, in collaboration with the Swiss Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Projects will include the development of new data-driven computational morphometry methods for analysis of structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) data, and application of these to large datasets in the context of normal variability, disease, and expertise. Candidates should have a degree in Biomedical Engineering, Computational Neuroscience, or a related field with a strong mathematical and computational background. Ideally they should have experience in brain image analysis, pattern recognition, machine learning, statistics as well as excellent programming skills. We offer a starting salary of 68, 964 CHF/year. The position is available immediately, and applications will be considered until the position is filled. Informal inquiries can be addressed to Narly Golestani (Narly.Golestani(a)unige.ch). Applications including a CV, a statement of research interests, and the names and full contact details of three referees should be sent to: Narly.Golestani(a)unige.ch.

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Fwd: [JOB] Software Engineer for Medical Image Analysis

by Gary Green

FYI ----------------------------------- A software engineer position is available in Biomedical Research Imaging Center (BRIC) at UNC Chapel Hill (http://www.med.unc.edu/bric/), for maintaining and packaging the software algorithms. The successful applicant will be trained to work broadly in medical image analysis field, and to help integrate various software packages developed in the research labs. This position needs to work with a multidisciplinary team on medical image analysis. The successful applicant must have a master degree in computer science or related engineering fields. He/She must be strong in programming, and familiar with C/C++, Matlab, and ITK/VTK. Experience with Linux is highly desired. Knowledge on medical imaging, computer vision, pattern recognition, and image processing is very helpful. If interested, please send your resume to Dr. Dinggang Shen (dgshen(a)med.unc.edu).

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Fwd: UCLA Advanced neuroimaging summer program

by Gary Green

FYI ---------------------------------- The 2012 UCLA NITP Advanced Neuroimaging Summer Program is streamed live beginning at 0830 Pacific Standard Time on July 9, 2012. Viewing is open to the public. Please see the page at http://www.brainmapping.org/NITP/Summer2012.php for the schedule and for greater detail

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Fwd: JOB OFFER –SUMMER IN ROME

by Gary Green

FYI --------------------------- The Department of Radiology at IRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, in Rome, Italy, has one open position for Early Stage Researcher (ESR) and one open position for Experienced Researcher (ER) in the EU Initial Training Network (ITN) Software for the Use of Multi-Modality Images in External Radiotherapy (SUMMER). SUMMER unifies experts from radiotherapy, radiology, human computer interaction, image registration, segmentation and medical visualization from five European countries with the goal to train a multi-disciplinary team of ten young experts for the development of future radiotherapy applications. Summer schools, workshops and research stays at the other participating institutions will ensure a high level of knowledge transfer and collaborative research. Fondazione Santa Lucia is a Scientific Institute for Research, Hospitalization and Health Care (IRCCS) in Rome, Italy, which carries out intensive research work in the fields of neuro-motor rehabilitation and, more generally, of neuroscience. The Department of Radiology studies structural and functional brain maturation in humans throughout life, in health and diseases with the aim of overcoming the segmented approach which is typical of conventional specialization training and scientific programs in order to transfer scientific research to the clinical activity. The Department of Radiology at FSL develops and implements MRI brain scan protocols and processing pipelines. Scans are being acquired for this purpose on the 1.5T and 3T scanners. Processing pipelines exist for volume quantification, Diffusion Tensor Imaging, brain iron-imaging, resting-state fMRI, BOLD fMRI, phase imaging. Fondazione Santa Lucia is responsible for the fMRI part of the project with strong focus on the development of automatic algorithms to contour target volume using fMRI imaging. by the systematic assessment, exploration and visualization of images that will be used as basis for highly reliable visualizations and delineations of the radiation target volumes. We are looking for two highly motivated young scientists preferably from European Countries interested in medical visualization and in the development of fMRI techniques development, implementation and analysis. Starting Dates for the position ESR is 1. January 2012 or later, position ER 2 starts 1. June 2013 or later. Duration ESR position is 36 month, and for ER position 18 month. ESR Applicants should have a MSc in physics, biology, biomedical engineering, psychology, or equivalent, and should fulfil the requirements to register to a PhD. They will be trained in pulse sequence programming and optimization for fMRI acquisition. ER Applicants should have a PhD in physics, biomedical engineering or medical image computing (or equivalent research experience), plus knowledge of MRI physics and experience in high-level programming; a background in pulse sequence programming is desirable. Applicants should have § Good programming skills in C++ and GPU programming § Basic knowledge in medical visualization and human computer interaction § Good knowledge of English in speaking and writing (English is working language of the ITN); § Tenacity in problem solving and willingness to learn The applicants must not have a history of employment in Italy for the past three years. We aim at increasing the percentage of female researchers at Fondazione Santa Lucia and especially encourage qualified women to apply. Your application should include: • Curriculum vitae • Publication list, including talks, master thesis, projects thatare online available, etc. • A short personal statement, why you in fact apply for this position • Names of references If you are interested in the position, please contact or directly apply via email to Umberto Sabatini (u.sabatini(a)hsantalucia.it). Applications will be considered until the position is filled. See http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/mariecurieactions/itn_en.html for more information on Initial Training Networks.

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Fwd: Brainhack 2012

by Gary Green

FYI ---------------------------------- Dear colleagues, I wanted to draw your attention on the upcoming 2012 Brainhack, 1st edition, to be held from September 1-4 at the Max Plank Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany. Brainhack is not a conference or a workshop. It should be closer to one of those exciting conversations you may have had at HBM during cocktail or poster sessions. Except that we will have over three days to build up those conversations into full-fledge collaborations. One should come to brainhack ready to engage into collaborative projects, and with some material (slides, ideas, data, tools) ready to start a project or a discussion panel. Brainhack will build on the successful techniques used in other unconferences <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference> to keep the meeting focussed and productive. It is possible to start a project and build a team as early as today. Please have a look at the website for informations on the conference and a sample of projects (more will be added over the summer): http://brainhack.org/2012/04/06/brainhack-2012-unconference/ The list of confirmed attendees includes F. Xavier Castellanos, Michael Hanke, Michael P. Milham, Tal Yarkoni, Arno Villringer, and many members of the neurobureau <http://www.neurobureau.org/NeuroBureau/Welcome.html>. Brainhack is a satellite of the resting-state connectivity conference <http://www.restingstate.com/>. Although many participants will have an interest in connectivity analysis, there will also be attendees coming from a variety of backgrounds within neuroscience. Registration is now opened: http://www.cbs.mpg.de/events/workshops/brainhack Please do not hesitate to share this invitation with your circles. Best Regards, Donald McLaren ================= D.G. McLaren, Ph.D. Research Fellow, Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School Postdoctoral Research Fellow, GRECC, Bedford VA Website: http://www.martinos.org/~mclaren <http://www.martinos.org/%7Emclaren> Office: (773) 406-2464 <tel:%28773%29%20406-2464> =

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Fwd: RESEARCH SENIOR, FACULTY and POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS at Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language

by Gary Green

FYI -------------------------- Hello all, Sorry for the multiple posting. Please let me draw your attention for the following call for several positions at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language. RESEARCH SENIOR FACULTY, RESEARCH FACULTY, POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) offers postdoctoral positions in several areas: language acquisition, production, multilingualism, neurodegeneration of language, language and learning disorders, neurocognition of language and advanced methods for cognitive neuroscience. The Center promotes a rich research environment without teaching obligations. It provides access to the most advanced behavioral and neuroimaging techniques, including 3 Tesla Siemens Trio MR scanner, a whole-head MEG system, four ERP labs, a NIRS lab, a baby lab including an eyetracker, two eyetracking labs, and several well-equipped behavioral labs. There are excellent technical support staff and research personnel (PhD and postdoctoral students). The RESEARCH SENIOR FACULTY POSITIONS are permanent appointments. The RESEARCH FACULTY POSITIONS have a term of appointment between 3 and 5 years with the possibility of a tenure track. The POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS have a term of appointment of 2 years with a possible renewal. We are looking for cognitive neuroscientists or experimental psychologists with a background in psycholinguistics and/or neighboring cognitive neuroscience areas; and MR physicists and/or engineers with expertise in functional MRI, DTI, structural MRI or multimodal imaging (EEG/MEG). Candidates should have a strong publication track record. Individuals interested in undertaking research in the fields described in www.bcbl.eu (research) should apply through the BCBL web page http://www.bcbl.eu/jobs Deadline September 30th For information about the positions, please contact Manuel Carreiras (info(a)bcbl.eu). Cesar Caballero MRI physicist / sequence developer www.bcbl.eu

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