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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Center for the Neural Basis of
Cognition / Psychology</span><br style="font-weight: bold;">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Carnegie Mellon University</span><br
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Postdoctoral Position: Encoding of
Objects and Faces in Human IT</span><br style="font-weight: bold;">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Supervisor: Michael Tarr</span><br>
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Soliciting applications - to be considered on a rolling basis - for
a postdoctoral researcher working with Michael Tarr at Carnegie
Mellon in beautiful Pittsburgh PA, USA. The goal of this project is
to collaborate with lab members on studies using non-invasive
neuroimaging (fMRI, DSI, MEG) to explore how objects and faces are
encoded within the human ventral pathway. A successful candidate
should have experience in the design and analysis of neuroimaging
experiments - particularly fMRI - as well as some experience using
computational tools for both data analysis (e.g., linear
classifiers) and modeling/simulation.<br>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">More on Carnegie Mellon and the
CNBC. </span><span>
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<p class="Body1"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Century Gothic";"></span><span style="font-size:
10pt; font-family: "Century Gothic";">We have
particular interests in face,
object, scene, and event recognition and the role of
experience in shaping our
perceptual systems. Methodologies we use include neuroimaging
(ERPs, MEG, fMRI,
and DSI/HDFT), the study of atypical populations
(neuropsychological case studies,
autism, and dyslexia), neurophysiology, eyetracking,
behavioral psychophysics
combined with advanced stimulus generation and manipulation,
computational
modeling, and machine learning for data understanding, all
applied across the
lifespan (infancy through older adulthood). Core faculty span
the
departments of Psychology, Statistics, </span><span><span><span
style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Century
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Sciences</span></span>, </span><span style="font-size:
10pt; font-family: "Century Gothic";">Machine
Learning, and Robotics, as well as the Center for the Neural
Basis of Cognition. Our facilities include a new campus-based
3T
Siemens Verio MRI scanner, a MEG facility, and a new
high-performance computing cluster
for modeling, simulation, and data analysis.</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">More on Pittsburgh.</span><br>
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<p class="Body1"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Century Gothic";">The academic community in
Pittsburgh is
uniquely interdisciplinary and collaborative. Through the
Center for the Neural
Basis of Cognition and our physical proximity to Pitt, we have
strong ties to
the University of Pittsburgh Center for Neuroscience,
Psychology, and medical
school. Within CMU trainees often work across units, pursuing
multidisciplinary
research. The city of Pittsburgh is also a highly supportive
and vibrant community.
Over the past two decades, Pittsburgh, one of the greenest
cities in America,
has reinvented itself as an educational and medical hub, but
has retained much
of the infrastructure from its industrial past, including a
wide variety of
museums, a world-class symphony, professional sports teams,
and an extensive
urban park system. With Pittsburgh's renaissance the city has
grown to include
an eclectic restaurant scene and a variety of funky
neighborhoods. CMU’s
strength in the fine arts has also fostered an active arts
scene, including
many theaters, film festivals, music venues, and galleries.
Reflecting this, in
May of 2010 Pittsburgh was on ranked as the most livable city
in America by Forbes
magazine.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
"Century Gothic";"></span></p>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The position is for one year, and
renewable for one additional year based on first year evaluation.
Salary will be based on NIH postdoctoral scales. Applicants
should send a cover letter (with potential starting date), a CV, a
research statement, and the names of at least three references to
</span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="mailto:info@tarrlab.org">info@tarrlab.org</a><br>
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