[visionlist] Postdoctoral fellow positions in learning and decision neuroscience

Marios Philiastides marios.philiastides at gmail.com
Sat Oct 7 04:43:55 -04 2023


We have an opportunity for two postdoctoral research positions - funded by
the  ERC - to work in our lab at the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging
(CCNi), within the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University
of Glasgow. The School of Psychology and Neuroscience is a world-class
research and teaching unit and it has recently been rated 4th in the UK and
1st in Scotland on research outputs (REF2021).



The posts have a strong computational cognitive neuroimaging component,
requiring advances in *1) theoretical neuroscience* – to enable the
development of a unified computational framework for integrating perceptual
and reward learning and decision making – and *2) multimodal brain imaging* –
to offer a high spatiotemporal characterisation of the relevant cortical
and subcortical pathways. Main research themes include, but not limited to:
reinforcement learning and valuation, risk and uncertainty, confidence and
metacognition, evidence integration and decision making.


The post holders will have the opportunity to be involved in cutting-edge
bespoke neuroimaging technology [3T/7TfMRI-EEG fusion] and advanced data
analytics to uncover and predict patterns in large multimodal datasets
[e.g. behaviour, simultaneous EEG-fMRI and eye-tracking data]. Please see
below for representative lab publications.


Apply here:
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDD932/research-assistant-associate-postdoctoral-2-posts


This post is full time and has funding up to 31st May 2026 in the first
instance with the possibility for an extension beyond this date.


Related Publications:

[1] Elsa Fouragnan, Chris Retzler, Karen Mullinger and Marios G.
Philiastides (2015), *Two spatiotemporally distinct value systems shape
reward-based learning in the human brain*, Nature Communications, 6: 8107.

[2] Sabina Gherman and Marios G. Philiastides (2018), *Human VMPFC encodes
early signatures of confidence in perceptual decisions*, eLife, 7: e38293.

[3] Tarryn Balsdon, Stijn Verdonck, Tim Loossens, and Marios G.
Philiastides (2023), *Secondary motor integration as a final arbiter in
sensorimotor decision-making, *PLOS Biology 21(7): e3002200

[4] Tarryn Balsdon,
<http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6087-2597%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank>M.
Andrea Pisauro,
<http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7683-3506%22%20%5Ct%20%22_blank> Marios
G. Philiastides (2023), Distinct basal ganglia contributions to learning
from implicit and explicit value signals in perceptual
decision-making, bioRxiv,
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.05.556317

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Marios G. Philiastides, Ph.D.
Professor of Decision Neuroscience
School of Psychology and Neuroscience
Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, G12 8QB

Web: https://mphiliastides.org <http://mphiliastides.org>
Email: marios.philiastides at glasgow.ac.uk
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