Connectionists: PhD positions announcement - Recurrent Associative Memories for Categorization and Classification

[Sylvain Chartier]

Two PhD positions in Psychology are available to work with Dr. Sylvain Chartier at the new COmputational NEurodynamics Laboratory (CONEL) at the University of Ottawa. The CONEL laboratory is part of the School of Psychology (http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/psy/eng/index.asp) and the Center for Neural Dynamics (http://www.neurodynamic.uottawa.ca/). The CONEL aims to better understand how human cognitive system accomplishes the complex task of create (and enhance) representations from patterns as well as recognize, identify, categorize and classify them using recurrent associative memories. Further details about the laboratory's research activities can be found at http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~schartie/

 

The ideal candidates should have programming experience with interpreted language (Matlab and/or Mathematica) and should have the mathematical basis to perform computational modeling. Applicants should complete the application package that can be found at http://www.socialsciences.uottawa.ca/psy/eng/prog2_future_students.asp?ID=adm 

and send an email to Dr. Chartier (sylvain.chartier at uottawa.ca) about their intention to apply.

 

Deadline: January 3rd, 2008.