澳大利亚昆士兰大学认知神经科学研究博士后岗位

Institution

Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland 

Position

Postdoctoral Research fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience

Location

Brisbane, Australia

Date Posted

Dec 3th 2007

Description

Opportunity for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory on a project examining the human mirror system and neural processes underlying the perception of actions

The Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) was established as a research institute of the University of Queensland in 2003. The Institute is now operating out of a new $63 million state-of-the-art facility and houses 24 Principal Investigators with strong international reputations. The QBI is one of the largest neuroscience institutes in the world dedicated to understanding the mechanisms underlying brain function. Details of the current QBI interdisciplinary research programs can be found at http://www.qbi.uq.edu.au.

The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will play a leading role in designing, implementing, conducting and writing-up experiments in close collaboration with Prof Jason Mattingley and A/Prof Ross Cunnington.
Projects will use imaging (fMRI, EEG), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), and behavioural studies/psychophysics to examine the influence of selective attention and conscious perception on neural responses to observed actions, and will examine links between the perception and execution of actions.

The Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory is one of leading centres for cognitive neuroscience research in Australia, founded jointly between the Queensland Brain Institute and School of Psychology, University of Queensland in January 2007.

We have dedicated facilities for human functional MRI (3 Tesla and 4 Tesla human MRI scanners), EEG (BioSemi and Neuroscan), and TMS, with research focusing on attention, action, and executive functioning in normal populations, as well as in neurological and neuropsychiatric conditions.

Contact

http://www.qbi.uq.edu.au