[visionlist] Fully funded PhD studentship: Neurocognitive mechanisms of person perception

[Paul Downing]

Fully-funded PhD position in Neurocognitive mechanisms of person perception

Bangor University, School of Psychology

Closing date: March 1st 2019
Funding for: UK/EU students
Funding amount: Tax-free stipend of approximately £14,800 per annum plus tuition fees and a research allowance


Applications are invited for a three-year fully funded PhD studentship in the School of Psychology, Bangor University.

Supervisor: Prof Paul Downing

Project rationale and description: Prof Downing’s research is in the area of social perception: What are the the neurocognitive mechanisms that transform perceptual data into reliable, socially-relevant signals about the people around us? Some recent and current studies in the lab examine: how the multimodal representations of action are integrated in the brain; how states and traits such as sex, age, gender, weight, and emotion are extracted from the shape and movements of the body; how the presence of other people shapes our attention to the surrounding scene; how frontal and temporal regions coordinate in perception of human faces; and how body-selective regions of the temporal lobes capture our knowledge of possible human postures. The work involves a combination of psychophysical, TMS, and fMRI approaches. Please see our website for more information about the lab and our work: http://pages.bangor.ac.uk/~pss811/

Recent relevant papers include:
Peelen, M. V., & Downing, P. E. (2017). Category selectivity in human visual cortex: Beyond visual object recognition. Neuropsychologia, 105, 177-183.

Harry, B. B., Umla-Runge, K., Lawrence, A. D., Graham, K. S., & Downing, P. E. (2016). Evidence for integrated visual face and body representations in the anterior temporal lobes. Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 28(8), 1178-1193.

Lingnau, A., & Downing, P. E. (2015). The lateral occipitotemporal cortex in action. Trends in cognitive sciences, 19(5), 268-277.

Facilities: The student will be a member of the School’s thriving Social Neuroscience research group, which meets regularly to present and discuss planned and ongoing projects as well as important developments in the field. More widely, the School benefits from an excellent research environment, with a large community of PhD students and research-active faculty, regular lab meetings, seminars, and visiting speakers, and extensive facilities for behavioural and neuroscientific studies, including a research-dedicated 3T MRI centre and associated TMS suite.

Requirements: Prof Downing seeks excellent candidates with related interests. Essential criteria include excellent communication skills, a strong grasp of experimental psychology and/or social-cognitive neuroscience, and a good MSc degree in Psychology or a related discipline. Programming skills (e.g. in Matlab) are desirable, especially if your interests are in fMRI.

Residency requirements: This studentship is open to UK/EU students only.
Further information: Informal enquiries should be directed to p.downing at bangor.ac.uk<mailto:p.downing at bangor.ac.uk>
Please include your CV and brief summary of your research interests.
General enquiries: For general advice about how to apply and eligibility please contact psychology at bangor.ac.uk<mailto:psychology at bangor.ac.uk>
Apply Now: The online application form is available here https://apps.bangor.ac.uk/applicant/
Bangor Doctoral School website: https://www.bangor.ac.uk/doctoral-school/






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