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<div>Dear Colleagues,<br>
<br>
Please convey the following announcement to bright undergraduates
looking for opportunities to earn a Ph.D. in perception, action,
and neuroscience. <br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
Ila Fiete<br>
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<p class=""><span class="">The program in Perception at The
University of Texas at Austin is encouraging applications for
interdisciplinary graduate study in vision sciences, with
emphasis on naturalistic tasks and stimuli. Housed in the
Department of Psychology, the Institute for Neuroscience, and
the Center for Perceptual Systems, our program is a vibrant,
growing, and highly-collaborative collection of research
laboratories boasting world-class facilities for conducting
research in visual perception, visually guided actions, and the
underlying neural mechanisms. These facilities include fMRI, eye
tracking, head and body tracking, face and facial expression
tracking, virtual reality, the collection of 3D time-varying
natural scene statistics, computationally-intensive modeling and
computer graphics, psychophysics, 2 photon microscopy, optical
imaging, and electrophysiology. Funding opportunities are
available through an NIH training grant, Research
Assistantships, Fellowships, and Teaching Assistantships.
Faculty actively engaging in interdisciplinary research in the
program include:</span></p>
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<p class=""><span class="">Dana Ballard: computational neuroscience,
machine learning, visuo-motor control</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Larry Cormack: vision and natural scene
statistics; psychophysics, motion and depth</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Ila Fiete: computational neuroscience of
network dynamics and coding</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Bill Geisler: vision and natural scene
statistics; computational modeling</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Mary Hayhoe: eye movements, attention,
virtual environments.</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Alex Huk: sensory-motor decisions, neural
mechanisms of motion and depth perception</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Ian Nauhaus: circuitry underlying
functional maps and coding in visual cortex</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Jonathan Pillow: computational
neuroscience, neural coding, Bayesian modeling</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Nicholas Priebe: neural coding in early
visual cortex, intracellular recording</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Eyal Seidemann: neural basis of visual
perception, neural population coding</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Max Snodderly: early visual system, eye
movements, and natural environments</span></p>
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More information on our research can be found at <a
href="http://www.cps.utexas.edu"> <span class="">www.cps.utexas.edu</span></a>,
and we encourage you to contact investigators directly if you
are interested in their research.</span></p>
<p class=""><span class=""><br>
You can apply via the Ph.D. programs in Neuroscience </span></p>
<span class=""><a href="http://neuroscience.utexas.edu/program/">http://neuroscience.utexas.edu/program/</a></span>
<p class=""><span class="">512-471-3640, <a
href="mailto:neuroscience@mail.clm.utexas.edu"> <span
class="">neuroscience@mail.clm.utexas.edu</span></a></span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">and Psychology</span></p>
<p class=""><span class=""><a
href="http://www.psy.utexas.edu/psy/GradProgram/gradhome.html">http://www.psy.utexas.edu/psy/GradProgram/gradhome.html</a></span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">512-471-6398, <a
href="mailto:gradoffice@psy.utexas.edu"> <span class="">gradoffice@psy.utexas.edu</span></a></span></p>
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<p class=""><span class=""><i>Interested students are strongly
encouraged to apply to both programs</i>.</span></p>
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Ila Fiete
Assistant Professor
Center for Learning and Memory
The University of Texas at Austin
Phone: 512.232.8439
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