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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><font face="Calibri">Please go to the following link to find out more about this project:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>https://jeffbowers.blogs.ilrt.org/researchgrants/<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If you are potentially interested in a position please send me your CV and a short statement explaining why you are interested.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I will be at NIPS 2017 and if I think there might be a fit I would be happy to meet up and talk more about the project.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I anticipate officially advertising for posts early in the new year.</font></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Calibri"><font face="Times New Roman"><font face="Calibri">Unlike most work with deep neural network, this project uses networks with the intention to better understand the human mind/brain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For one post I would like to hire a computer scientist with expertise in deep learning. In this case, knowledge of psychology and neuroscience desirable, but not strictly necessary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For other posts, modelling in psychology and neuroscience is a prerequisite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For PhD positions a modelling background is desirable, but not strictly necessary.</font></font><font face="Times New Roman">
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><font face="Calibri">To have a better idea of the perspective I take on neural network modelling, please see the following paper:</font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri">https://jeffbowers.blogs.ilrt.org/files/2017/11/bowers-tics-2017.pdf</font></p>
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<p><font face="Calibri">Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sincerely,</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><font face="Calibri">Jeff Bowers</font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 8pt;"><font face="Calibri">j.bowers@bristol.ac.uk</font></p>
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