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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Post-doc (or PhD student) in Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">– How is reinforcement learning implemented in the brain?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">A post-doc (or PhD student) position is available to develop new biologically plausible reinforcement learning theories. This project is a collaboration
between in the Vision & Cognition group (Dr. Pieter Roelfsema) at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience in Amsterdam and the </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">NeuroInformatics Lab at the </span><strong><span lang="EN-US" style="font-weight: normal;">Centrum
Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-US"> </span></strong><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">(Dr. Sander Bohte)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Our recent theoretical insights have allowed a preliminary understanding of how animals learn to represent and memorize the key features of sensory
stimuli for the guidance of action, and how this learning can proceed by trial-and-error (Rombouts et al. NIPS 2012, Roelfsema et al., TiCS, 2010). The present project focuses on the learning of subroutines, which can be incorporated into larger routines,
during trial-and-error learning. We aim to develop a biologically plausible learning rules that endow neural networks with the possibility to learn hierarchical task structures.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The project is funded by an NWO grant from the Natural Artificial Intelligence </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">program.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The successful applicant will have a solid computational background, an interest in cognitive neuroscience and good programming skills.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Appointment:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The position involves a temporary appointment for 2-4 years. We offer a competitive salary with excellent secondary benefits and friendly taxes, and
also an extremely friendly, interactive and international working environment. Amsterdam is one of Europe's most beautiful and lively cities where almost everybody speaks and understands English, so that candidates need not be afraid of the language barrier.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">To apply, please send application letter, CV and two letters of recommendation to:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Tini Eikelboom<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Meibergdreef 47<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">1105 BA Amsterdam, The Netherlands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Telephone: +31-20-5664587<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Cambria;"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">E-mail: </span><a href="mailto:t.eikelboom@nin.knaw.nl"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: rgb(11, 76, 180);">t.eikelboom@nin.knaw.nl</span></a><span lang="DE" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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