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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">TWO (EXP+THEORY) POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS IN SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Perceptual decision-making in a probabilistic inference framework<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> The laboratories of Rick Born in the Dept. of Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, and Ralf Haefner in the Dept. of Brain & Cognitive Science at University of
Rochester, are seeking applications for two NIH-funded postdoctoral fellowships to study the role of top-down connections in conveying learned priors within a theoretical framework of perception as probabilistic inference. Specific projects will address the
neural bases of multi-tasking and confirmation bias. Experimental techniques include population recordings from area V1 with and without cortical feedback inactivated by cooling V2/3. Data analysis techniques include applying latent-state inference methods.
Theoretical work will involve generating empirically testable predictions using sampling-based and variational techniques applied to probabilistic models.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> The successful candidates will interact extensively with each other, both PIs and their labs. Please visit the lab web sites (<a href="http://www.hms.harvard.edu/bss/neuro/bornlab/index.htm"><span style="color:blue">Born
Lab</span></a> & <a href="http://www2.bcs.rochester.edu/sites/haefnerlab/index.html">
<span style="color:blue">Haefner Lab</span></a><u><span style="color:blue">)</span></u> to obtain more information on current interests and electronic versions of recent research papers. Preliminary results from a closely related project on learning can be
found <a href="http://www.hms.harvard.edu/bss/neuro/bornlab/lab/papers/lange-etal-areadne-2018.pdf">
<span style="color:blue">here</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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The ideal candidate for the experimental position will have experience in one or more of the following areas: training nonhuman primates, extracellular electrophysiology, reversible inactivation of cortex, MATLAB programming. Candidates with a computational
neuroscience background and an interest in visual processing will also be considered.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> Candidates for the theoretical position should have strong quantitative and programming skills, ideally (but not necessarily) with experience in computational neuroscience
and probabilistic modeling.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> Salary will be commensurate with experience according to the current NIH scale.
<b>Please send curriculum vitae, statement of research interests, up to three reprints, and a minimum of two letters of recommendation</b> to either
<a href="mailto:richard_born@hms.harvard.edu"><span style="color:blue">richard_born@hms.harvard.edu</span></a> or
<a href="mailto:rhaefne2@ur.rochester.edu"><span style="color:blue">rhaefne2@ur.rochester.edu</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Harvard Medical School and University of Rochester are Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employers. Applications from minorities and women are especially encouraged.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Full links</span></u><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Born lab:
<a href="http://www.hms.harvard.edu/bss/neuro/bornlab/index.htm"><span style="color:blue">http://www.hms.harvard.edu/bss/neuro/bornlab/index.htm</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Haefner lab:
<a href="http://www2.bcs.rochester.edu/sites/haefnerlab/index.html"><span style="color:blue">http://www2.bcs.rochester.edu/sites/haefnerlab/index.html</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Preliminary results:
<a href="http://www.hms.harvard.edu/bss/neuro/bornlab/lab/papers/lange-etal-areadne-2018.pdf">
<span style="color:blue">http://www.hms.harvard.edu/bss/neuro/bornlab/lab/papers/lange-etal-areadne-2018.pdf</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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