A funded PhD position is available at the University of Sussex, UK, application deadline
Feb 16 2018.
Causality and complexity in human neural dynamics during natural vision
A PhD studentship in the area of computational neuroscience is available at the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science, within Prof Anil Seth's group based in the Department of Informatics.
It is a collaborative project with the group of Prof. Rafael Malach at the Weizmann Institute in Israel, and Prof. Ashesh Mehta from the Feinstein Institute in New York. The position is co-funded by the University of Sussex and the Canadian Institute for
Advanced Research (CIFAR).
This project offers an exciting opportunity to apply leading-edge analytical methods to unique sources of data, in order to unravel the neural basis of conscious vision. The successful candidate
will develop and apply dynamical complexity measures and functional connectivity analysis to detailed intracranial recordings obtained from humans during unconstrained real-world movement, with simultaneous video. A key advantage of this set-up is the availability
of extensive high-resolution coverage of the entire (human) visual brain, acquired during ecologically valid visual behaviour. Other sources of data may also be analysed during the project. The overall goal is to work towards an explanatory bridge from network-level
neural dynamics to large-scale theories of perception and consciousness (e.g., global workspace theory, predictive processing).
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Anil K. Seth, D.Phil.
University of Sussex, UK
Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience
Co-Director, Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science
Editor-in-Chief, Neuroscience of Consciousness