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of Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin. Full details can be found here: <a href="https://oconnell-lab.com/home/opportunities/" id="LPlnk122372">
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funded by the European Research Council (Consolidator Grant, 2021-2026) which aims to develop and apply a neurally-informed behavioural modelling framework for examining individual and group difference in perceptual decision making.
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><o:p>Pinpointing
the mechanistic origins of inter-individual differences in decision making is a central goal of modern psychology and a considerable challenge because even elementary perceptual choices rely on a multitude of sensory, cognitive, motivational and motoric processes.
For this reason, researchers have relied heavily on a set of mathematical ‘sequential sampling’ models that are designed to parse the latent psychological processes driving variations in choice behaviour. Although these models have been fruitfully employed
in thousands of theoretical and neurophysiological investigations, they suffer from several limitations that particularly undermine their utility in inter-individual or -group comparisons including: A) parameter values are estimated on a relative, within-subject
scale; B) the models come in many forms that can make identical behavioural predictions despite invoking fundamentally different mechanisms (‘model mimicry’); and C) they deal in abstract psychological constructs that are themselves dependent on multiple neural
processes. The objective of this proposal is to address each of these issues by developing and applying a novel decision modelling framework in which models are constructed and evaluated based on their ability to explain key observable aspects of the neural
implementation of the human decision process in addition to its behavioural output. This work will build on recent advances in non-invasive electrophysiology (EEG) which enable direct observation, measurement and manipulation of the decision process as it
unfolds in the human brain. Across a series of empirical investigations that will use adult aging as a testbed for studying inter-individual and -group differences, this research will yield new methods for directly comparing model parameter values across subjects,
resolve prominent theoretical debates regarding decision making algorithms (e.g. how they are adapted to take account of factors like prior knowledge and time pressure) and gain important new insights into <span style="color: black; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">their
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin">The position is funded for 3 years with the possibility of further extension. The ideal start date is 1<sup>st</sup> February 2021
but there is flexibility depending on the successful candidate’s circumstances. The candidate will join a team of PhD students and postdoctoral fellows and will participate in regular lab meetings, journal club discussions and have the opportunity to attend
international conferences annually.<o:p> The Application Deadline is 31st December 2020.</o:p></span></p>
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