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<font size="3"><font face="Cambria"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">Announcing a postdoctoral position to work collaboratively with
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">Drs. Stephen Mitroff and Dwight Kravitz at the George Washington University and Dr. Matthew Cain at the U.S. Army Natick Soldier Research, Development, and Engineering Center. The work will primarily take place
at the Tufts University Center for Applied Brain and Cognitive Sciences in Medford, MA.</span></font></font></p>
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<font size="3"><font face="Cambria"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">This position is centered around the use of big data to address novel questions about the nature of inhibitory control. Specifically, data are drawn from the mobile app “Airport
Scanner,” which is a game where players serve as airport security officers and attempt to detect prohibited items in bags. As of March 2018, there are data from 14 million unique devices with 3.4 billion bags (i.e., trials). On a small percentage of these
trials, there are bags with a badge telling the player that the bag belongs to an Air Marshal and they should *not* tap on the illegal item. That is, the player must inhibit their response and not do their normal act of responding to a threat. The sheer size
of the dataset allows for very fine-grained analyses of trials preceding and following rare inhibition trials, which gives the potential to closely compare existing theories of inhibitory control and develop new ones.
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><font size="3"><font face="Cambria">The primary project will be to analyze existing data from Airport Scanner with an eye toward making theoretical advances in inhibitory control. This will be coupled with designing
follow-up experiments (involving behavior, eye-tracking, EEG, virtual reality, and/or augmented reality, as appropriate) with the goal of applying findings in Army-relevant situations.<o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><font size="3"><font face="Cambria">An ideal candidate will have a Ph.D. in psychology, cognitive science, or a related discipline, solid analytical and programming skills (Matlab and/or Python experience is a plus),
a demonstrated interest in inhibitory control, and excitement for both theoretically driven and applications-oriented research. <o:p></o:p></font></font></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><font size="3" face="Cambria">Interested parties should contact Drs. Stephen Mitroff (</font></span><a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><font size="3" face="Cambria">mitroff@gwu.edu</font></span></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><font size="3" face="Cambria">)
and Matthew Cain (</font></span><a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><font size="3" face="Cambria">matthew.s.cain6.civ@mail.mil</font></span></a><font size="3"><font face="Cambria"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma">) with a C.V. and the contact
information for two references. The position is for one year dependent on funding from the Army Research Office with possibility of renewal, contingent on funding availability.
</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica">The start date has some flexibility.</span></font></font><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Matthew S. Cain, Ph.D.<br>
Research Psychologist<br>
Tufts University Center for Applied Brain and Cognitive Sciences</div>
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