Connectionists: Post-doc position at UCL Ear Institute

[Jenny Bizley]

Dear Colleagues, please forward the following advertisement to anyone
who might be interested.

Best wishes,
Jenny

UCL Ear Institute

Research Associate Position

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 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, with a start date of not later than October
1st. For an informal discussion please contact Dr Jennifer Bizley
(email: j.bizley at ucl.ac.uk)





The closing date for applications is Friday 8th July 2011.

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Dr Jennifer Bizley

Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow
UCL Ear Institute
332 Grays Inn Road
London, WC1E 6BT                     07779 148804

www.dBSPL.co.uk                   www.bizley.co.uk
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