Connectionists: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cognitive and Neural Modeling at Vanderbilt University

[Thomas Palmeri]

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cognitive and Neural Modeling

We are eagerly seeking postdoctoral fellows to join an NEI-funded project on cognitive and neural modeling of visual cognition with Thomas Palmeri, Jeffrey Schall, and Gordon Logan at Vanderbilt University. Candidates have opportunities for research combining cognitive and neural modeling with new data from human behavioral experiments and existing data from monkey neurophysiological experiments. The project aims to link cognitive models of perceptual decision making, categorization, search, and control with neural measures and neural models. See the CatLab web site (catlab.psy.vanderbilt.edu <http://catlab.psy.vanderbilt.edu/>) for descriptions of projects and links to recent publications. 

Research facilities include computer workstations and servers, laboratory behavioral testing stations, eye trackers, and a shared 6000-core / 500TB compute cluster at Vanderbilt’s ACCRE. Postdoctoral fellows will also take advantage of the facilities and support provided by the Department of Psychology (www.vanderbilt.edu/psychological_sciences/ <http://www.vanderbilt.edu/psychological_sciences/>), the Vanderbilt Vision Research Center (my.vanderbilt.edu/vvrc/ <http://my.vanderbilt.edu/vvrc/>), and the Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience (cicn.vanderbilt.edu <http://cicn.vanderbilt.edu/>).

Candidates can hold a Ph.D. in psychology, neuroscience, computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering, or related disciplines. Candidates should have demonstrated skills in computer programming and statistical analyses; some background in computational modeling is strongly desired. Start date is negotiable, but preference will be given to candidates who can begin sometime within the next six months. Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis as they arrive. Salary will be based on the NIH postdoctoral scale. Applicants should send a cover letter with a brief research statement, a CV, and names and email addresses of three references to thomas.j.palmeri at vanderbilt.edu <mailto:thomas.j.palmeri at vanderbilt.edu>.

Thomas Palmeri
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt Vision Research Center
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN 37240
thomas.j.palmeri at vanderbilt.edu <mailto:thomas.j.palmeri at vanderbilt.edu> 
catlab.psy.vanderbilt.edu <http://catlab.psy.vanderbilt.edu/>
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