*Research Fellow (Fixed-term) * * * *School of Psychology* *University of Nottingham, UK*

£27,854 - £36,298 per annum, depending on skills & experience. Salary progression beyond this scale is subject to performance

Applications are invited for a Leverhulme Trust funded postdoctoral fellowship on a project investigating cortical responses to sensory stimuli with high-resolution fMRI at ultra high field (7T). The project will seek to develop a novel behavioural method to map perceptual distortions in human observers who have had abnormal visual experience during development. The focus of this post will be to compare our behavioural approach to objective measures of cortical magnification mapping using ultra-high field functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

This project will involve a range of investigative techniques including magnetic resonance imaging at 7T and 3T, psychophysical (behavioural) testing, and computational modelling. Experiments will be conducted in collaboration with colleagues at the Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre. This post represents a unique training opportunity for an individual with an interest in high-field magnetic resonance imaging, visual development, and sensory science.

The School of Psychology at the University of Nottingham has a thriving Visual Neuroscience Group, with 10 Faculty members and a large cohort of postdoctoral fellows and PhD students. The group has a diverse range of interests in human vision, sensation, learning, and decision making, is supported by excellent laboratory and research facilities, and is firmly committed to the development of early stage career researchers. The Sir Peter Mansfield Centre for Magnetic Resonance is home to a world-leading team of physicists, with an active research program in magnetic resonance imaging/spectroscopy and the site of the first whole-body human 7T magnetic resonance scanner in the UK.

Candidates should hold a PhD (or equivalent) in a relevant field such as neuroscience, psychology, physiology, physics, computer science or a related discipline. We are looking for a highly motivated individual with a general interest in sensory perception, vision, attention and/or decision making. Candidates should have excellent quantitative skills, including a good background in computing (preferably Matlab or C/C++), as well as mathematical and technical skills. Experience with neuroimaging, in particular acquisition and analysis of functional MRI data, is a requirement.

This is a full time post and the person appointed will be expected to start no later than 1st October 2013. This post will be fixed-term until the 31st July 2015.

*Informal enquiries *may be addressed to Prof. Paul McGraw, Email: *Paul.McGraw@Nottingham.ac.uk mailto:Paul.McGraw@Nottingham.ac.uk* or Dr Denis Schluppeck Email: *denis.schluppeck@nottingham.ac.uk mailto:denis.schluppeck@nottingham.ac.uk*. Further details about the School of Psychology and the Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre are available at: http://www.nottignham.ac.uk/psychology and http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/magres.

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/Jobs/CurrentVacancies/ref/SCI1307. If you are unable to apply on-line please contact the Human Resources Department, tel: 0115 951 5206. Please quote ref. SCI1307. Closing date: 28 August 2013.

-- denis schluppeck university of nottingham tel:+44 [0] 115 84 x68580 mailto:denis.schluppeck@nottingham.ac.uk

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