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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;" class="elementToProof">The Humphries’ lab at the University of Nottingham is seeking a postdoc
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="">Whether choosing to leave one shop for another, switching TV programs, or seeking berries to eat, humans and other animals make innumerable stay-or-leave decisions, but how we make them is not well understood. The goal
of this project is to develop new computational accounts of stay-or-leave decisions, and use them to test hypotheses for how humans, primates, and rodents learn and make these decisions. The work will draw on and develop new reinforcement learning and accumulation
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="">The Humphries’ group </span><span lang="EN-US" class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="">researches fundamental insights into how the joint activity of neurons encodes actions in the world (</span><a href="https://www.humphries-lab.org" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="x_x_ContentPasted0" data-loopstyle="link"><span lang="EN-US" style="">https://www.humphries-lab.org</span></a><span lang="EN-US" class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="">).
This post will join our developing research program into how humans and other animals learn to make the right decisions (e.g.
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https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.30.505807</a>). </span></p>
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The post is until 14<sup class="x_x_ContentPasted0">th</sup> February 2025. </p>
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Nottingham University welcomes researchers from around the globe. As part of this support, the university will provide financial support to the post-holder for all visa costs. </p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="color:black; background:white">Unsure if you're a good fit for the post? Got any questions? Then contact <span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm">Mark for a chat: </span></span><u><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="color:#5B9BD5; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm; background:white">mark</span></u><span style="color:#5B9BD5; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm; background:white">.humphries@nottingham.ac.uk</span><u><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="color:#5B9BD5; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm; background:white">.</span></u><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="color:#5B9BD5; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm; background:white"> </span><span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="color:black; background:white"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
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<span class="x_x_ContentPasted0" style="color:black; background:white">For full details of the role and how to apply</span> </p>
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<a href="https://jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=SCI092323" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="x_x_ContentPasted0">https://jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=SCI092323</a> </p>
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Closing date: March 30<sup class="x_x_ContentPasted0">th</sup> 2023 </p>
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