Connectionists: Job Opening (RA or Postdoc): Cognitive Neurocomputational Modeling

[Mark A. Gluck]

Position Offered for  Research Assistant or Postdoctoral Fellowship in

Cognitive Neurocomputational Modeling
of Memory and Memory Disorders

We have a grant-funded opening to hire a full time Research 
Assistant/Programmer or Postdoctoral Fellow to work on computer 
programming projects developing neurocomputational models of the 
basal ganglia, cortex, and the hippocampal region, with the goal of 
using these models to capture a broad range of behavioral data on 
human learning, memory, and attention. Of particular interest is 
applying these models to understand and predict the nature of memory 
and cognitive dysfunction in clinical brain disorders including 
Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease, schizophrenia, 
Alzheimer's, and stroke/amnesia. These modeling efforts go 
hand-in-hand with our ongoing parallel experimental studies with all 
these clinical populations, as well as with related animal studies in 
our lab using selective lesions in rats and transgenic mice.

In addition, we are interested in applying the normative models to a 
broad range of applied engineering and Artificial Intelligence 
applications in control and cognition, to compare them to alternative 
computing methods for solving these problems.

We would be open to hiring either a post-BA who would work for two 
years before going on to graduate school or a postdoctoral fellow. In 
either case, it is essential that the person have (1) very strong 
computer programming skills, (2) prior experience with mathematical 
and computational models of brain and/or behavior, preferably with 
exposure and experience with neural-network models, and (3) strong 
English-language writing and speaking skills.

We are located in Northern New Jersey, less than twenty minutes by 
train from midtown Manhattan.

If interested, please email me a letter of interest summarizing your 
background, training, computer modeling skills and experience, 
previous publications and presentations of research, and future 
career goals.

Thanks, Mark Gluck


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Dr. Mark A. Gluck,  Professor 
   Co-Director, Rutgers Memory Disorders Project 
Center for Molecular  and Behavioral Neuroscience                           
Rutgers University                                 Phone:  (973) 353-1080 x3221
197 University Ave.                                    Fax:  (973) 353-1272
Newark, New Jersey  07102                   Email:  gluck at pavlov.rutgers.edu

   Lab:  http://www.gluck.edu
   Memory Loss & Brain Newsletter: http://www.memorylossonline.com
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Dr. Mark A. Gluck,  Professor 
   Co-Director, Rutgers Memory Disorders Project 
Center for Molecular  and Behavioral Neuroscience                           
Rutgers University                                 Phone:  (973) 353-1080 x3221
197 University Ave.                                    Fax:  (973) 353-1272
Newark, New Jersey  07102                   Email:  gluck at pavlov.rutgers.edu

   Lab:  http://www.gluck.edu
   Memory Loss & Brain Newsletter: http://www.memorylossonline.com