Postdoctoral Fellowhip in Visual Neurophysiology at NIH.
Dr Bruce Cumming has a vacancy, available immediately, for a postdoctoral fellow to study responses of visual cortical neurons in awake behaving monkeys. The appointment is for up to 5 years. The experimental work centers around extracellular single unit recording in striate or extrastriate cortex, while presenting binocular stimuli to behaving animals.
The main themes of the work are
A) developing and testing mechanistic models to explain how signals about disparity are generated in cortex (e.g Haefner and Cumming, 2008).
B) Understanding, how in principle these signals might be used to compute depth (e.g. Read and Cumming, 2007).
And C) combining modern psychophysical techniques with single cell recordings and microstimulation to clarify how these signals influence perception (.e.g. Nienborg and Cumming, 2007).
The laboratory forms part of the Laboratory of Sensorimotor Resarch, a group of seven principal investigators with a common interest in primate neurophysiology and visual behavior. The group is well funded and offers state-of-the-art facilities, in a collegial atmosphere. There are opportunities to develop projects using multi- electrode recordings or monkey fMRI. There are also close links with the rest of the NIH’s sizeable Neuroscience program.
The NIH-campus is located in Bethesda, a 15 min subway-ride away (http://www.wmata.com/metrorail/systemmap.cfm) from the center of Washington, DC.
The Applicants should have a PhD in a relevant field and have experience with MATLAB.
Starting salarly will be $40,800 - $63,300, depending on experience. Applicants should send a Curriculum Vitae to: Bruce Cumming Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-4435 Phone: 301-402-8097 Fax: 301-402-0511 Email: bgc@lsr.nei.nih.gov