Joint PhD fellowship on “Understanding the effect of evoked emotions in
long-term memory” at the Department of Information Technologies and
Communications DTIC-UPF
DESCRIPTION
Human visual perception emerges from complex information processing taking
place in the brain. Nonetheless, since our perceptual experience arises
with apparent ease, we are often unaware of such complexity. Vision is an
active process in that detailed representations of our visual world are
only built from actively scanning our eyes with a series of saccades and
fixations. The process of actively scanning a visual scene while looking
for something in a cluttered environment is known as visual search. The
study of visual search processes by means of eye-tracking and EEG
recordings not only offers a unique opportunity to gain fundamental
insights into visual information processing in the human brain, but also
opens new avenues to assess cognitive function and its relation to normal
aging and age-related cognitive pathologies.
This successful applicant will study novel «cognitive signatures» derived
from eye-tracking methods and EEG recordings, and will investigate the role
of evoked-emotions in such signatures. The simultaneous acquisition of both
eye-tracking and EEG recordings will allow the PhD candidate to investigate
the effect of evoked emotions in long-term memory by linking brain activity
with behavioral results. Throughout the project, music-evoked emotions will
be considered. The opening is for a joint position from the Computational
Neuroscience Group and the Music Technology Group at DTIC-UPF.
The PhD project will be closely related and supported by the funded
research projects: TIN2013-40630-R, ComputVis@Cogn- Visual Search as a
Hallmark of Cognitive Function: An Interdisciplinary Computational Approach.
Starting date: Fall 2014
Duration: 3 years
REQUIREMENTS
Students with a strong background in mathematics, computer science, or
physical sciences are particularly encouraged to apply. The applicants must
hold an MSc degree in Computer Science, Physics, Applied Math, Cognitive
Science, Psychology or related discipline. Proficiency in both written and
spoken English
HOW TO APPLY?
Interested people should send a resume as well as an introduction letter to
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Deadline for applications is September 15th 2014. Interested candidates are
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further details.
MORE INFORMATION
http://www.upf.edu/dtic/
http://www.upf.edu/dtic_doctorate/phd_fellowships.html
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Laura Dempere-Marco, PhD
Center of Brain and Cognition
Department of Information and Communication Technologies
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Phone: +34 93 542 1452
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