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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS IN COGNITIVE PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY: COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE OF NORMAL AND ABNORMAL COGNITIVE AND EMOTIONAL FUNCTION Department of Psychology and Beckman Institute University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA The NIMH-funded Cognitive Psychophysiology Training program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has postdoctoral fellowship openings for recent PhDs, MDs, and MD/PhDs. The core faculty of the training program pursue a variety of research programs addressing normal and abnormal cognitive and emotional function and associated brain mechanisms addressing a broad range of NIMH priorities in mental health and mental illness. Post-doctoral fellows can work with one or more of the core faculty, who study topics spanning depression, anxiety, memory, attention, executive function, emotion, language, cognitive aging, cognitive disability, aggression, and externalizing disorders. Core faculty are based in the Departments of Psychology, Psychiatry, Bioengineering, Electrical Engineering, and Statistics, with appointments in the campus Neuroscience Program (www.neuroscience.illinois.edu) and the multidisciplinary Beckman Institute (www.beckman.illinois.edu), which includes the research-dedicated Biomedical Imaging Center (bic.beckman.illinois.edu). The training grant is administered through the Dept. of Psychology (www.psych.illinois.edu). We employ diverse psychophysiological methods, including fMRI, dense-array EEG, optical imaging, and eye-tracking as well as autonomic measures. Our research emphasizes integration of measures to achieve multimodal imaging to study substantive areas involving normal and abnormal cognition and emotion. We seek applications from ethnically diverse scientists who have strong academic credentials and US citizenship or permanent residence. We are accepting applications on an ongoing basis. Per NIH rules for such trainees, "The individual to be trained must be a citizen or a noncitizen national of the United States or have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence by the time of award. Individuals who have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence must have a currently valid Alien Registration Receipt Card (I-551) or other legal verification of such status." Potential applicants are welcome to contact any of the core faculty members: Diane Beck, Neal Cohen, Florin Dolcos, Monica Fabiani, Kara Federmeier, Susan Garnsey, Brian Gonsalves, Gabriele Gratton, Wendy Heller, Arthur Kramer, Zhi-Pei Liang, Gregory A. Miller, Bradley Sutton, Edelyn Verona, and Michelle Wang. Research interests and contact information are available at https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/gamiller/shared/CPTGbrochureDec2009.pdf Please send applications (via e-mail) consisting of a single pdf file, including cover letter, CV, and names and addresses of three referees, to Program Director Gregory A. Miller ([log in to unmask]).