Fwd: Open PhD position at the University of Magdeburg, Germany

Applications are invited for PhD candidates to contribute substantially to the German-Japanese cooperation project â??Testing computational models of learning from social, real, and fictive feedback in human and nonhuman primatesâ??, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). Principal investigators: Prof. Dr. Markus Ullsperger (OvGU Magdeburg) and Prof. Dr. Masaki Isoda (Kansai Medical University, Osaka). The collaboration of both research groups shall be fostered by research visits in the partner labs. The project is embedded in Prof. Ullspergerâ??s labâ??s general research line. The team is multidisciplinary and combines a broad variety of cognitive neuroscience methods. The Department of Neuropsychology and Magdeburg in general offer cognitive neuroscientists a unique, multidisciplinary working and learning environment with opportunities for developing expertise in a diversity of research areas and techniques. Four MRI scanners (7T, 3T), several (MR-compatible) EEG systems, an MEG system, TMS and high-performance computational facilities are available. Please find complete description here: http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/unimagdeburg_media/Stellenausschreibungen/2014/… -- *Dr. Roland Nigbur (Dipl.-Psych.)* Institut für Psychologie II / Neuropsychologie Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg Universitätsplatz 2, G24-Raum 004 39106 Magdeburg Tel.: +49 (0)391 67 18698 Fax: +49 (0)391 67 11947