Ph.D. and Masters Studentships in EEG Brain-Computer Interfaces & Neural Attention Mechanisms

[Jim Kroger]

(Apologies for multiple postings)

The Mind and Brain Laboratory at NMSU is seeking graduate students at the 
Ph.D. and Masters level who are interested in research on Brain-Computer 
Interfaces, as well as on the neural mechanisms underlying attention and 
control of attention.

Our Brain-Computer Interface work is currently funded by the U.S. Air 
Force, and is a joint project between Jim Kroger in the Mind and Brain 
Laboratory, and Dr. Joseph Lakey in Mathematical Sciences, and Dr. Kwong Ng 
in Electrical Engineering. We focus on developing algorithms for 
interpreting mental activity as control signals, with an emphasis on 
algorithms to increase speed, accuracy, and decrease training in the 
interest of making Brain-Computer Interfaces practical. The NMSU Psychology 
Department, in conjunction with the NMSU Physical Sciences Laboratory and 
the NMSU Computing Research Laboratory are participating in building a 
multi-million dollar Human Performance Research Center that will include an 
emphasis on future research on BCIs. Dr. Kroger is also a professor at the 
University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and connected to the MIND 
Institute there.

We are also looking at how neural mechanisms operate during reasoning and 
other higher cognition, with an emphasis on the functional organization and 
interaction of frontal and parietal cortices. It is possible for students 
to work in both the BCI and Attention areas. Research is also being 
conducted on developing superior head models for source localization.

We have a state of the art, high-density 128-channel electrophysiology 
laboratory using a Biosemi Active-2 system, with IBM Intellistation A Pro 
dual 64-bit Opteron processor workstations running the EMSE EEG analysis 
suite, as well as Matlab and EEGLAB and other Matlab EEG analysis packages. 
We have access to MRI locally for anatomical brain scans, a 32-processor 
Opteron cluster for high-speed data analysis, and access to fMRI and MEG 
facilities at the Mind Institute in Albuquerque. We are also in 
collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratories scientists on fMRI, 
EEG, MEG, source localization, and computational models of neural processing.

Students traditionally receive full support. Additionally, there are 
opportunities to spend time at Los Alamos National Laboratories.

Interested students with backgrounds in psychology, neuroscience, biology, 
mathematics, engineering, physical sciences, or related disciplines, are 
encouraged to apply. Students must submit 3 letters of recommendation, 
their GPA (official transcripts), and their GRE scores. However, though the 
deadline is in March, we will accept promising students soon, so please 
contact Dr. Kroger by email if you have an interest in these positions.

Please visit our laboratory website below for further information.

http://www.psych.nmsu.edu/~jkroger/lab/index.html

This website has our application information:

http://www-psych.nmsu.edu/grad_admission.html


Sincerely,
Jim Kroger



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Jim Kroger
Department of Psychology
220 Science Hall, MSC 3452
Williams Street
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces,  NM 88003-8001
USA
http://www.psych.nmsu.edu/~jkroger/lab/index.html
Tel:  (505) 646 2243
Fax: (505) 646 6212
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