Post-Doctoral Positions –University of Rochester, N

Post-Doctoral Positions –University of Rochester, NY

University of Rochester seeks outstanding postdoctoral fellows with research interests
in the field of Learning and Plasticity in humans to work as part of a
multi-investigator and multi-institutional program on learning and skill transfer. The
overarching goal is to develop a theory for learning in complex dynamic environments
that can not only account for the cognitive strategies used by human subjects during
learning and decision making at both the behavioral and neurobiological levels, but can
also explain and predict when transfer of learning will be observed across different
tasks, conditions, and domains. We are seeking candidates working in the domains of
computational sciences as well as behavioral and brain imaging investigations of
perception and action.

(1) COMPUTATIONAL: The successful candidate should have a strong background in
computational, and in particular Bayesian, approaches to Cognition and Neuroscience.
The candidate will work together with faculty and students from the Departments of Brain
& Cognitive Sciences, and Computer Science at the U. of Rochester, as well as at
co-institutions including Professors Dan Kersten at the U. Minnesota, Josh Tenenbaum at
MIT and Wayne Gray at RPI. We seek applicants from any of these disciplines who have
expertise in perceptual learning, decision making, causal reasoning and more generally
any form of statistical inference or machine learning. We are particularly interested
in postdoctoral fellows who want to contribute to an interdisciplinary community.
(2) PERCEPTION & ACTION, STATSTICAL LEARNING AND DECISION MAKING: The successful
candidate should have interests in human learning and plasticity. Contributing faculty
are in the Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, the Center for Visual Sciences,
and the Center for Language Sciences, and study various forms of learning ranging from
perceptual learning in vision to motor learning and language acquisition. Candidates
with brain imaging experience (fMRI, NIRS, or ERPs) can join the Imaging community at
Rochester, including the Rochester Center for Brain Imaging, the Biomedical Engineering
Department and ECE, as well as work in collaboration with S. Hillyard at UCSD. We seek
applicants from any discipline with interests in the study of learning and plasticity
within an interdisciplinary community.

Applicants should send a letter describing their graduate training and research
interests, a vita, and arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to:

Professor Daphne Bavelier
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Meliora Hall
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627-0268.

Review of applications will begin on June 15, 2007 and continue until the positions are
filled, with expected start dates ranging from September 1, 2007 to January, 1 2008.
Learn more about the faculty, students, and training facilities of the Department of
Brain and Cognitive Sciences, the Center for Visual Science, and the Center for Language
Sciences, as well as links to other affiliated departments and programs by visiting our
web site.

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