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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dear all,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">We invite applications for a fully funded PhD studentship to join <a href="https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/fraser-smith">Dr Fraser Smith’s</a> group at the University of East Anglia (Norwich,
England). The position is for three years and includes a collaboration with Tim Kietzmann’s group at the University of Osnabruck (Germany) and with Stephanie Rossit at UEA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:18.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Project Description:</span>
<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Humans can easily estimate how materials will feel to touch just from seeing them. This ability is critical for correctly manipulating and interacting with objects in our world. However, our knowledge
of the brain mechanisms underlying such material perception is surprisingly limited, particularly when compared to our knowledge of object recognition. Here we propose the fusion of state-of-the-art neuroimaging and computer modelling techniques to reveal
the critical brain mechanisms that underpin the perception of natural materials through vision and touch.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Details and application procedure can be found here: <a href="https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLL004/phd-studentship-cognitive-computational-neuroscience-multimodal-models-of-material-perception">https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLL004/phd-studentship-cognitive-computational-neuroscience-multimodal-models-of-material-perception</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Closing date: 30<sup>th</sup> April 2025.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Please direct any queries to: </span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#0563C1">Fraser.Smith@uea.ac.uk</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Many thanks</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Fraser<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm">Fraser W Smith<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Associate Professor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">School of Psychology<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/fraser-smith">UEA webpage</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8016-5109">ORCID</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=q6gQCNEAAAAJ&hl=en">Scholar</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Director of <a href="https://www.uea.ac.uk/course/postgraduate/msc-cognitive-neuroscience">
Cognitive Neuroscience Masters</a> <o:p></o:p></p>
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