The Brain and Behaviour group in the School of Psychology, University of
Surrey, UK invites applications for funded PhD studentships, to commence
in October 2014. For further details see:
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/psychology/study/pgr/index.htm We have two
routes for PhD funding: the first is as part of the South East Doctoral
Training Centre (SE DTC) and the second route is via a Faculty
studentship - further information can be found here:
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/postgraduate/psychology-phd The Brain and
Behaviour group investigates the neural bases of a variety of cognitive
functions in healthy humans as well as in patients suffering from
neurological disorders. Its work draws on diverse approaches including
psychophysics, cognitive modelling, neuroimaging and neurostimulation.
The group has access to shared fMRI facilities and on-site EEG and TMS
laboratories. There are three broad research topics within the group:
Action Representation, Neuroplasticity/Neuromodulators, and Cognitive
Control. More information about the group and specific supervisors'
research interests can be found here:
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/psychology/research/brainandbehaviour/index.htm
We invite applications from students who have gained a 1st class BSc
Hons and/or a Distinction in Masters degree in Psychology, or related
disciplines. If you are interested, please contact one of the group
members to discuss your project before applying. To apply, fill in the
University of Surrey online application form and submit it by the 31st
of January 2014, 4pm.
PhD Studentship
Cognition and Emotion: intertwined or distinct abilities?
University of Hull -Faculty of Science and Engineering
A psychophysical and eye-tracking study.
To celebrate the University's research successes, the University of Hull is offering 13 full-time UK/EU PhD Scholarship or International Fees Bursaries for candidates applying for the areas within the Faculty of Science and Engineering, including the one listed below.
Closing date: - 3rd February 2014.
Studentships will start on 29th September 2014
Supervisor: Dr Tjeerd Jellema, T.Jellema(a)hull.ac.uk<mailto:T.Jellema@hull.ac.uk>, 01482-466490, Department of Psychology
Co-supervisor: Dr Jason Tipples, Department of Psychology
This project investigates the intricate ways in which cognition and emotion relate to each other. To what extent can they operate separately and independently, to what extent do they enhance, compensate or cancel each other? These are fundamental questions psychologists only recently are starting to get a grasp of.
For cognition to be fully effective, it is not enough that the agent is able to understand and predict developments in the environment, it must also care about them, it must desire certain types of outcomes and shun others. This would suggest that the capacities for cognition and emotion are closely intertwined, and that emotions are basically computational tags that subserve and facilitate cognitive processes like decision making. However, research using subliminal stimulus presentations suggested that affective values can get attached to a stimulus without recognition of that stimulus. This view is best exemplified by a study reported in Science by Kunst-Wilson and Zajonc (1980), which forms the starting point for the current project.
The questions are in particular relevant for the study of autism, where the core deficits are of a cognitive-emotional nature. Therefore, individuals with autism will be compared with matched typically-developed individuals to investigate how the intertwinement of emotion and cognition is affected in autism. The participant's eye position will be tracked (EyeLink1000) as an indicator of unconscious learning effects (preferences).
Experience with autism and/or eye-tracking is an advantage, but is no requirement as training will be provided. The Psychology department offers a vibrant and supportive research environment with excellent research facilities (including eye-trackers, EEG, TMS, and fMRI).
To apply for this post please click on the 'Apply' button below
In order to qualify for this scholarship you will require a 2.1 in a relevant subject.
Full-time UK/EU PhD Scholarship will include fees at the 'home/EU' student rate and maintenance (£13,726 in 2013/14) for three years, depending on satisfactory progress.
Full-time International Fee PhD Studentships will include full fees at the International student rate for three years, dependant on satisfactory progress.
PhD students at the University of Hull follow modules for research and transferable skills development and gain a Masters level Certificate, or Diploma, in Research Training, in addition to their research degree.
Dr Jason Tipples
Department of Psychology
The University of Hull
Hull, HU6 7RX, UK
T: +44 (0) 1482 466158
F: +44 (0) 1482 465400
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University of York
York YO10 5DD
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http://www.york.ac.uk/psychology/staff/faculty/awe1/
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Trinity College Dublin
Institute of Neuroscience and School of Psychology 3-year PhD Studentship
Applications are invited for a PhD studentship in cognitive neuroscience to
be held in Trinity College Dublin Institute of Neuroscience and School of
Psychology. This is funded under the EU Marie Curie Initial Training
Network ‘INDIREA’ which is co- ordinated by Prof Glyn Humphries of
University of Oxford.
This project, to be run in collaboration with a range of European partners,
involves the development of a new and fully integrated approach to
understanding and rehabilitating attentional disorders in human volunteers
and patients – going from the measurement and modelling of basic brain
processes through to the creation of linked, clinically applicable,
neuropsychological assessments and attentional training.
The studentship will focus on dissociating components of attention using
novel paradigms combined with EEG/ERP investigations. Protocols employing
non- invasive brain stimulation and biofeedback will be used in an attempt
to enhance different facets of attention in elderly people with memory
difficulties.
Candidates should ideally have undergraduate or Master’s-level experience
with cognitive neuroscience. They should have experience with human EEG/ERP
testing, data analysis, preferably including Matlab skills.
Candidates should also have excellent statistical and presentation skills
and should not have been resident in the Republic of Ireland for more than
one out of three of the previous three years.
Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (www.tcd.ie/neuroscience) is
Ireland’s only dedicated neuroscience institute, with over 220 staff and
students, 40 Principal Investigators and world class brain imaging (3T and
small bore 7T research only MRI, with scan-compatible eye-tracking and
pupillometry), EEG/ERP (multiple rigs), and Non-invasive Brain Stimulation
(TMS, TDCS, TACS).
Its NIEL (www.tcd.ie/neuroscience/neil) programme on aging includes a
Memory Research Unit with over one thousand volunteers and which will
provide the participants for the current study.
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The positions are tenable from March 2014.
For further information contact Professor Ian Robertson email
iroberts(a)tcd.ie or
Professor Paul Dockree, email dockreep(a)tcd.ie
The closing date for applications is December 15th 2013
Recent publications from the TCIN cognitive neuroscience group include the
following:
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O’Connell, RG, Dockree PM, Kelly SP (2012) A supramodal accumulation-to-
bound signal that determines perceptual decisions in humans. Nature
Neuroscience 15, 1729–1735 (2012)
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Balsters, J. H., R. G. O'Connell, A. Galli, H. Nolan, E. Greco, S. M.
Kilcullen, A. L. W. Bokde, R. Lai, N. Upton and I. H. Robertson (in press)
"Changes in resting connectivity with age: a simultaneous
electroencephalogram and functional magnetic resonance imaging
investigation." Neurobiology of Aging
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Balsters JH, O’Connell RG, Galli A, Nolan H, Greco E, Kilcullen SM,
Bokde AW, Upton N and Robertson IH (in press) Changes in resting
connectivity with age: A simultaneous EEG/fMRI Investigation. Neurobiology
of Aging.
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Hoerold D, Pender, N and Robertson IH (2013) Metacognitive and Online
Error Awareness Deficits after Prefrontal Cortex Lesions. Neuropsychologia
51, 385-391.
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Balsters, J., O’Connell, R. G., Martin, M., Galli, A., Cassidy, S. M.,
Kilcullen, S. M ... Robertson IH (2011). Donepezil Impairs Memory in
Healthy Older Subjects: Behavioural, EEG and simultaneous EEG/fMRI
biomarkers. Plos One 6, 9, e24126
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Finnigan S, Robertson IH (2011) Resting EEG theta power correlates with
cognitive performance in healthy older adults. Psychophysiology, 48, 1083–
1087
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Finnigan S, O’Connell RG, Cummins TDR, Broughton M and Robertson IH
(2011) ERP measures indicate both attention and working memory encoding
decrements in aging. Psychophysiology 48, 601-611.
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O'Connell, R. G., Dockree, P. M., Robertson, I H., Bellgrove, M. A.,
Foxe, J. J., & Kelly, S. P. (2009). Uncovering the Neural Signature of
Lapsing Attention: Electrophysiological Signals Predict Errors up to 20 s
before They Occur. Journal of Neuroscience 29 8604-8611.
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Post-doctoral Research Opportunity: the STRATEGIC Study
The STRATEGIC Study will investigate the role of white matter connections and brain connectivity in human memory, mostly by studying perturbations of memory caused by focal stroke. The project will apply techniques including diffusion tensor MRI, tractography, functional MRI of networks at rest and during memory tasks, and novel neuropsychological paradigms. The post will be located at the Denmark Hill campus of King's College London and utilise the new £30M Wellcome Trust NIHR King’s Clinical Research Facility, which houses a 3T research-dedicated MR scanner, facilities for investigation of patients at all levels of clinical care (including critical care) and ample facilities for cognitive assessments including a virtual reality suite. The post-holder will also have full access to the facilities of the Centre for Neuroimaging Sciences (with co-investigators Prof Steve Williams, Dr Flavio Dell'Acqua and Dr Andre Marquand). Clinical aspects of the project will take place within stroke services at King’s College Hospital, including the Hyperacute Stroke Unit.
STRATEGIC is funded for 3 years by a grant from the Medical Research Council. The postholder will play a central role in the core studies to be performed at King’s. The broader project includes collaborations with CUBRIC in Cardiff and the internationally-renowned Rotterdam Study and there will be opportunities to develop collaborative themes.
Contact Dr Mike O'Sullivan for an informal chat, mike.osullivan(a)kcl.ac.uk
Job particulars and applications: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/apply.php?id=16843920
Applications are now OPEN for autumn 2014 PhD studentships within the
Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology (CCACE) at The
University of Edinburgh. The full advertisement is at
http://www.ccace.ed.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Advert%20Sept%202014%20-%2020…
and a brief description of potential projects/applicants are below:
Are you interested in the mechanisms of cognitive ageing in humans or in
model systems? Are you interested in how cerebral small vessel disease
affects cognitive ageing? Do you want to use neuroimaging to investigate
age-related changes in the brain, study the genetics of cognitive
ageing, or translate between experimental mechanisms and human ageing
diseases?
Then one of our PhD studentships could be for you!
Applicants should have a good undergraduate and/or masters degree, as
appropriate to the chosen research topic. For example, a neuroscience,
biomedical sciences, genetics, molecular biology/medicine, neuroimaging,
statistics, physics, mathematics, or engineering related discipline.
If you are interested in pursuing one of these studentships, please send
an informal email enquiry to David Alexander Dickie, Postdoctoral
Fellow, Neuroimaging Sciences, The University of Edinburgh,
ddickie1(a)staffmail.ed.ac.uk
The closing date for applications is 31st January 2014.
Thank you and best of luck!
Dear all,
between 1pm and 2pm there will be a UCAS visit to YNiC. During the visit
access to the workstations will not be restricted, however as the
presentation area is likely to be quite crowded, please could you use
workstations towards the back wall of Open Plan during this period.
With thanks,
Michael
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Dr Michael Simpson
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
Innovation Way
York
YO10 5DG
Tel: 01904 567614
Web: http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
A 3-year PhD position is available at the Danish Research Center for Magnetic Resonance (Copenhagen) and the Technical University of Denmark.
The focus of the project will be on applying novel MR methods to significantly improve the sensitivity of MR electrical impedance tomography (MREIT). MREIT allows estimating the ohmic conductivity of tissue in-vivo. As such, MREIT is a potential novel diagnostic technique for tumor detection. In addition, it allows for a direct validation of the volume conductor models used in EEG/MEG source localization and in brain stimulation. The latter is highly needed as inaccurcies in the assumed ohmic conductivities of tissues pose a fundamental limitation on the accuracy of those models.
The work will be conducted in collaboration with the MR-Center at the Max-Planck Insitute in Tübingen (Germany).
Please refer to the following link for details:
http://www.dtu.dk/english/career/68b8dc4f-495a-4496-9f53-cd7560ff805b.aspx
The CMRR at the University of Minnesota seeks to recruit two additional
postdoctoral associates to join the WashU-UMinn Human Connectome Project
(HCP). The postholder will be actively working in the component of the
HCP that focuses on optimization of data acquisitions and data analysis
for resting state and task induced fMRI (R/T-fMRI), and diffusion
imaging for high angular resolution diffusion imaging (HARDI), with
different subject populations. Responsibililties include: Data
acquisition and optimization at 3T and 7T, testing, debugging and
optimization at 3T and 7T, evaluating the performance with the RF coils
that will be developed within the HCP project, provide feedback and
evaluations on RF coil performance, and provide feedback regarding
resting state and diffusion data pre-processing.
More information can be found at :
https://employment.umn.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.js…
(requisition number 187166)
A 3-year PhD-position is available from early 2014 at the Freiburg
Brain Imaging Center
(http://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/fbi/live/index_en.html), Department
of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, in Germany.
The project focuses on compensatory mechanisms in neurodegenerative
disorders by combining functional and structural imaging as well as
transcranial magnetic stimulation. The candidate can obtain a PhD in
the field of Psychology, Medicine or Biology and is welcome to
participate in developing MRI-based pattern recognition methods for
diagnostics and prognostics
(http://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/fbi/live/groups/kloppel/Projects/
diagnosing_en.html ). If desired, candidates can be involved in
teaching and cognitive testing at the local memory clinic.
We offer
The FBI combines efforts in neuroimaging research of the departments
of Psychiatry/Psychotherapy, Biological and Personality Psychology,
Neurology, Neuroradiology and Neurosurgery. We offer a continuous
education program (image analyses, SPSS, etc.) and weekly research
meetings. Support for MRI sequence development is provided by the
Department of MR-Physics. The research group is closely collaborating
with the Department for Pattern recognition methods
(http://lmb.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/index.en.html) and is part of
large research initiatives (www.humanbrainproject.eu/de;
http://www.brainlinks-braintools.uni-freiburg.de/ ).
We require
Applicants must hold a master degree or equivalent in medicine,
psychology or a related field. Previous experience with fMRI is
desired and basic programming skills (e.g. Matlab, FSL, SPM) are
advantageous but not required.
Disabled applicants are preferred if qualification is equal. As the
University of Freiburg intends to increase the proportion of female
employees in science, women are particularly encouraged to apply.
Please send applications until 15/12/13 to PD Dr. Stefan Klöppel
Informal enquiries may call +49 761 270 52960 or the email address
given above.
http://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/fbi/live/groups/kloppel/team/kloeppel_en.h…