To Whom It May Concern,

Please find below an advertisement for a PhD position currently available in my laboratory. Please forward this to relevant students within your department.

Best wishes and Happy new year,

Maria Chait

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A 3 year PhD studentship in auditory cognitive neuroscienceis available as part of a research collaboration between the UCL Ear Institute (London, UK) and NTT Communication Science Labs (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone corporation, Atsugi, Japan). The student will be based at the UCL Ear Institute and supervised by Dr. Maria Chait. They will also be working with Prof. Makio Kashino and Dr. Shigeto Furukawa (NTT). The project will use psychophysics, eye tracking, autonomic response measures and MEG functional brain imaging to investigate auditory perception in natural scenes. Further information about research in the laboratory can be found here: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ear/research/chaitlab

The UCL Ear Institute provides state-of-the-art research facilities across a wide range of disciplines and is one of the foremost centres for hearing, speech and language-related research within Europe.

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*Key Requirements*

Applicants should have a UK/EU nationality and a 1^St class, or upper 2^nd degree in a relevant discipline (e.g. Psychology, Neuroscience, Engineering). The PhD work would require good programming skills (e.g. in Matlab). Previous experience with auditory research, functional brain imaging, signal processing and/or acoustics is desirable.

*For an informal discussion, or to submit an application please contact Dr. Maria Chait (**m.chait@ucl.ac.uk* mailto:m.chait@ucl.ac.uk*). Applicants should submit a supporting statement, a CV, and the details of two academic referees. The studentship includes fees and a yearly stipend (about £16000; tax free). *

Maria Chait PhD

m.chait@ucl.ac.uk mailto:m.chait@ucl.ac.uk

Reader in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience

UCL Ear Institute

332 Gray's Inn Road

London WC1X 8EE