[visionlist] Opening for a PhD student at Donders Institute, Netherlands

[Jehee, J.F.M. (Janneke)]

Opening for a PhD student at Donders Institute, Netherlands

A PhD position is available in Janneke Jehee's lab at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior. The successful candidate will work on studies of visual perception and decision-making. Research methods include computational modeling, brain imaging (fMRI), machine learning, behavioral methods, and other techniques.

Virtually everything we sense, think, and do is uncertain. For instance, when driving a car, you often need to determine how close you are to the car in front of you. It is nearly impossible to estimate this distance with absolute certainty – but it is possible to guess and even to assess the uncertainty associated with that guess. Accordingly, we reduce speed when driving in bad weather because we are less certain about our estimates of the distance to surrounding traffic. But what makes us feel less certain in these conditions? What brain mechanisms underlie this ability? And is there something we could do to improve our estimates?

This project will address these and related questions regarding the neural basis of visual perception and decision-making. It is part of larger project on visual information processing in the brain, conducted in collaboration with Sam Ling’s research lab at Boston University, USA.

The Donders Institute in Nijmegen, Netherlands, is a friendly, collaborative research environment, and home to many outstanding researchers from all over the world. Facilities include high-field 3T and 7T research-dedicated MRI scanners, a 275-channel MEG system, several (MR-compatible) EEG systems and eye trackers, fully equipped behavioral labs, and high-performance computational facilities. The working language of the Donders Institute is English.

Please see this website<https://www.jeheelab.org/> for more information on the lab’s research questions, style and approach, this website<https://sites.bu.edu/vision/> for more information about Sam Ling’s lab, and this website<https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-opportunities/phd-position-visual-perception-and-decision-making> if you would like to apply.


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Janneke Jehee
Professor
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior
Radboud University, Netherlands



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