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[Sue Denham]

The Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience and the
Computer Music Research Group, University of Plymouth, UK, are looking
for highly qualified candidates for 2 Post-Doctoral and 2 Research
Assistant positions to work on a 3-year research project in the field
of Computational Neuroscience & Music Cognition, entitled Emergent
Cognition through Active Perception.

The project is funded by the Sixth Framework Programme of the European
Union and involves a consortium lead by Dr Sue Denham, Prof Mike
Denham and Dr Eduardo Miranda (University of Plymouth), in
collaboration with Dr Henkjan Honing (University of Amsterdam,
Institute for Logic, Language and Computation), Prof Istv=E1n Winkler
(Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences), and Prof
Gustavo Deco and Prof Xavier Serra (University Pompeu Fabra,
Barcelona, Music Technology Group & Computational Neuroscience Group).

The goal of the project is to investigate how complex cognitive
behaviour in artificial systems can emerge through interacting with an
environment, and how, by becoming sensitive to the properties of the
environment, such systems can develop effective representations and
processing structures autonomously. Music is an ideal domain in which
to investigate complex cognitive behaviour, since music, like
language, is a universal phenomenon containing complex abstractions
and temporally extended structures, whose organisation is constrained
by underlying rules or conventions that participants need to
understand for effective cognition and interaction. We will
investigate the development of music cognition by combining the
complementary approaches of perceptual experiments using human
subjects, functional and neurocomputational modelling, and the
implementation of an interactive embodied cognitive system.


Provisional project start date: 1 October 2005

More details are available here:
http://neuromusic.soc.plymouth.ac.uk/EmCAP.html


Alternatively contact:
Sue Denham s.denham at plymouth.ac.uk
Or Eduardo R Miranda eduardo.miranda at plymouth.ac.uk