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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Research Associate /Senior Research Associate positions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Bristol<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Salary: £32,548 to £41,212 per annum
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Deadline: 20th August 2018
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">We
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">are seeking to appoint talented computational modelers
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">to join an ERC-funded project entitled “Generalisation in Mind and Machine”. The project explores how well neural networks support human-like
generalisation across a range of tasks. Two postdoctoral fellows and two PhD students are working on project, and we are looking to hire two more persons with PhDs (or potentially BSc) in computer science or cognitive psychology (or a related field) with
experience working with neural networks. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">In contrast with the large community of researchers focused on improving the performance of deep networks for applied reasons, the goal of this project is to explore
what neural networks tell us about how the brain works. More specifically, the team will be working on questions of generalisation in the domains of object identification, word identification, short-term memory, and games, amongst other areas. A core issue
is whether networks need to be include symbolic computations to succeed on some forms of generalisation. For overview of some of the issues we are exploring in the project see: Bowers, J. S. (2017). Parallel Distributed Processing Theory in the Age of Deep
Networks. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12, 950-961. For more details regarding the project see our ERC website:
<a href="http://mindandmachine.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/">http://mindandmachine.blogs.bristol.ac.uk/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">This post is available from Oct 1st 2018 (but somewhat flexible about start date) and currently has funding secured until Oct
1st 2021. To apply go to: <a href="https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BKR397/erc-research-associate-senior-research-associate/">
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/BKR397/erc-research-associate-senior-research-associate/</a>
</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">If you have any questions, please get in touch with Jeff Bowers at: j.bowers@bristol.ac.uk</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Jeff Bowers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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