Connectionists: PhD studentships: Computation in Brain and Mind at Brown University

[Michael J Frank]

The Brown University initiative for Computation in Brain and Mind
<http://compneuro.clps.brown.edu/>, soon to be a Center within the Brown
Institute for Brain Science, invites PhD applicants to apply directly to
any of the affiliated departments, including Neuroscience, Cognitive,
Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Applied Mathematics, Computer
Science and others.   Among other events, the initiative includes a seminar
series focused on computation with distinguished lecturers, technical
workshops and symposia,  and a yearly neural decoding competition. The
initiative also has close links to parallel initiatives at Brown in
Human-Robot Interaction, Digital Society (big data), and access to a high
performance compute cluster with dedicated cycles for Brain Science.

Brown has particular expertise in computational approaches to higher order
brain function, from perception to cognition, spanning departments of
Neuroscience, Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences, Applied
Mathematics, Computer Science, Neurosurgery, Biostatistics, and
Engineering. Most of these faculties cross theory and experiment, but
primary foci are listed here:


* Computational perception: Theories about how the brain integrates sensory
information to give rise to percepts, constrained by biophysics and
computational objectives.

* Control over action: reinforcement learning, decision making, and
cognitive control; application to mental illnesses.

* Fundamental questions in neural computation: synaptic plasticity,
circuits, networks.

* Neurotechnology: brain-machine interface, advanced neural data analysis.

* Automated collection of neuroscience data, e.g. via computer vision and
annotation.

* These core areas are supported by boundary-pushing development of
technical and analytic methods in Computer Science an Applied Mathematics.


Michael J Frank, PhD, Associate Professor
Laboratory for Neural Computation and Cognition
Brown University
http://ski.clps.brown.edu
(401)-863-6872
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