Connectionists: Post-doc position at UCL Ear Institute in auditory/multisensory neurophysiology

[Jenny Bizley]

Dear Colleagues, please see the advertisement below for a 3 year
postdoctoral position at UCL Ear Institute,
Best wishes,
Jenny

*UCL Ear Institute*

*Research Associate Position in auditory neurophysiology
*

A 3-year postdoctoral research associate position, funded by the BBSRC, is
available at the UCL Ear Institute to investigate the neural basis of
auditory perception. Specifically, the project will examine the neural
activity underlying a listener’s ability to identify signals, such as speech
sounds, across varied and noisy listening conditions. Experimental work will
include training animals in listening tasks and using state-of-the-art
recording techniques to measure the activity of single neurons and
populations of neurons in the auditory cortex of freely moving animals,
whilst they discriminate speech-like sounds. These methods will be combined
with reversible-inactivation methods in trained animals to identify which
auditory cortical fields contribute to different aspects of auditory
perception.  Similar techniques will be used to investigate the conditions
under which visual information can help us to “hear better” and to examine
neural activity in auditory cortex which might underlies this.



The successful applicant will have a PhD in auditory neuroscience or a
related discipline and will have experience in electrophysiological
recordings and/or animal psychophysics. They are expected to be proficient
in signal processing techniques, matlab programming and computational
analysis of multi-electrode data sets.



The Ear Institute (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ear) is a multi-disciplinary
facility with the remit of “*understanding hearing and fighting deafness”*.
Facilities at the Ear Institute are world-class, and will enable all of the
components of the project to be undertaken to a high level. The laboratory
is also affiliated with UCL’s Department of Neuroscience, Pharmacology and
Physiology (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/npp/) enabling the successful applicant to
become part of UCL’s exceptional neuroscience community.



The position is funded for three years by a BBSRC project grant and is
available immediately.* *For an informal discussion please contact Dr
Jennifer Bizley (email: j.bizley at ucl.ac.uk).
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