Fwd: Postdoc opening in computational/cognitive affective neuroscience

FYI ---- 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 and clinical neuroscience and computational vision are also present at the two sites. Please contact Prof Bishop on sbishop(a)berkeley.edu <mailto:sbishop@berkeley.edu> for further information.