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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">The<span> </span></span><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/rubencoencagli" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Laboratory
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 York City. The position is available immediately, it is funded for two years through a NIH<span> </span></span><a href="https://einsteinmed.edu/centers/iddrc/training/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">training
 grant to the Rose F. Kennedy IDDRC at Einstein</span></a><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">, and targets eligible candidates interested in careers in the biomedical sciences focused on the neurobiological underpinnings of
 neurodevelopmental disorders associated with intellectual disability and autism. The candidate will have the opportunity learn and apply innovative experiments and computational modeling of perceptual grouping and segmentation developed by the Coen-Cagli lab,
 to test theories of sensory processing in autism, in collaboration with the Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory (</span><a href="https://einsteinmed.edu/faculty/12028/sophie-molholm/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Molholm
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Eligible candidates must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents (green card holders) and have a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline, with an academic record of scientific excellence and independent
 research. Successful candidates will be highly motivated toward IDD research coupled with excellent training in the neurosciences/biomedical research. Candidates should have substantial experience in psychophysics and excellent programming skills. Prior experience
 with computational neuroscience, machine learning, statistics, computer vision, or EEG recordings is also preferred.  </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Candidates will provide their current CV, 3 letters of recommendation and a personal statement (3-page maximum length) outlining their previous training, qualifications and proposed areas
 of research interest to the IDDRC administrator,<span> </span><b>Lisa.Guillory@einsteinmed.edu</b>. Candidates are also encouraged to reach out to<span> </span><b>ruben.coencagli@gmail.com</b><span> </span>as part of their application process. </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">The Coen-Cagli lab studies how biological sensory systems interpret the surrounding environment. We study how populations of visual-cortical neurons represent and transmit visual information,
 and how those processes control perception. We combine theories of probabilistic neural coding, machine learning and natural image statistics, psychophysics, and neurophysiology through collaborations. Most recent publications include:  </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">(2022) J. Vacher et al.<i><span> </span></i>Neural Networks<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fdoi.org%2F10.1016%2Fj.neunet.2022.02.010&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw2AXVx_xlmHOAXGpDsa-P-y" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">149:107-123</span></a><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><span> </span>(</span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Farxiv.org%2Fabs%2F1905.10629&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw07Y51VfdA5zoBB5uXcOSyy" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="4" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">preprint</span></a><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">) </span></p>
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<span lang="IT" style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">(2021) S. Sokoloski et al. eLife<span> </span></span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Felifesciences.org%2Farticles%2F64615&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AOvVaw0YVzNslStofdDCcVl1rIGl" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="5" style="margin:0px"><span lang="IT" style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">10:e64615</span></a><span lang="IT" style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> </span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">(2021) D. Festa et al.<i> </i>Nature Communications </span><a href="https://rdcu.be/cmy7M" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="6" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">12:3635</span></a><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> (</span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.06.17.142182" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="7" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">preprint</span></a><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">)<br>
(2021) D. Herrera et al.<i> </i>Journal of Vision </span><a href="https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2772139" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="8" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">21(1):1</span></a><u><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><br>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">(2021) D. Herrera et al.<i> </i>Vision Research<span> </span></span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2021.06.007" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="9" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">187:55-65</span></a><i><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> </span></i><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">(</span><a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.26.441524v1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="10" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">preprint</span></a><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">) 
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">(2020) J. Vacher et al. <span> </span></span><a href="https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2020/hash/fba9d88164f3e2d9109ee770223212a0-Abstract.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="11" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">NeurIPS
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<span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">The Rose F. Kennedy IDDRC was established more than 50 years ago as one of a dozen flagship research centers founded during the John F. Kennedy administration, and is known for its strong
 foundations in basic and translational neuroscience, and for its multidisciplinary cross-departmental membership. In addition to its many research laboratories and clinics, the IDDRC maintains four outstanding scientific core facilities – these consisting
 of a </span><a href="https://einsteinmed.edu/centers/iddrc/resources/human-clinical-phenotyping-core/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="Visit the Human Clinical Phenotyping (HCP) core" data-linkindex="12" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;color:windowtext !important">Human
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