PhD scholarships in connectionist/neural network/psychological models

[Denis Mareschal]

The Birkbeck College (University of London) psychology department has a
number of full-time PhD scholarships for students commencing their degrees
in October 1999. These are open to students wishing to undertake projects
comprising of computational methods (connectionist/neural network
and mathematical models) combined with experimental psychology.

The department has a strong commitment to cognitive neuroscience and
computational modelling. Strong candidates are invited to apply (see FULL
ANNOUNCEMENT below) for a variety of cognitive neuroscience projects
supervised by Denis Mareschal and/or by Marius Usher, as described:

Denis Mareschal (http://www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk/staff/dm.html)
   connectionist modelling of perceptual and cognitive development in childhood
   and infancy

Marius Usher (http://www.ukc.ac.uk/psychology/people/usherm/)
  Behavioral and computational studies of: choice reaction time,
  short-term and working memory and cognitive performance,
  information processing in the frontal lobes.

The  Birkbeck College psychology department includes the
recently founded Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development
(headed by Professor Mark Johnson) and is well complemented by a new
cognitive science laboratory consisting of a suit of
UNIX-based workstations dedicated to computational modelling research.
Birkbeck College is situated in the Bloomsbury section of London and
students would  benefit from its close proximity to the Gatsby
Computational Neuroscience Unit and the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience.


FULL ANNOUNCEMENT


Birkbeck College
Department of Psychology
PhD Studentships

The Birkbeck Psychology Department, rated 5 in the last Research Assessment
Exercise, is offering two departmentally-funded research studentships,
available from October 1999.  There are opportunities to work in a number
of research groups:
Brain and Cognitive Development
Perception, Cognition and Action
Child Family and Social Studies
For further details see http://www.psyc.bbk.ac.uk/

Students with or expecting a first class or upper second class degree in
psychology should send their full CV, the names of two referees, and a
two-page statement of their research interests to the postgraduate
admissions tutor:
Dr Paul Barber (PG Application)
Department of Psychology
Birkbeck College
University of London
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HX

phone: +44 171-631-6207
fax: + 44 171-631-6312

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	Dr. Denis Mareschal
	Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development
	Department of Psychology
	Birkbeck College
	University of London
	Malet St., London
	WC1E 7HX, UK
	tel +44 171 631-6582/6207
	fax +44 171 631-6312
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