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<p style="font-weight: 400;">CogBooster and the Proaction lab is looking for a<span> </span><span>Post</span>-<span>Doctoral</span><span> </span>Researcher at the initial stages (defending very soon, and no more than 2 years and half after obtaining their PhD). The applicants should have obtained a PhD, and have an overall interest in object recognition, potentially focusing on object-related features like shape, texture material and surface properties. We are particularly interested in researchers with strong expertise in fMRI, and in particular decoding and multivariate approaches.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The selected applicant will work with <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ejJVE0wAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user%3DejJVE0wAAAAJ%26hl%3Den%26authuser%3D1&source=gmail&ust=1747220752100000&usg=AOvVaw3fp3IN5mlFgyC3RO9oJbEx">Jorge Almeida</a> but will also benefit from the lively academic environment and research groups we are currently building in the Psychology Department of the University of Coimbra, Portugal (<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&authuser=1&user=aPwpIY0AAAAJ" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl%3Den%26authuser%3D1%26user%3DaPwpIY0AAAAJ&source=gmail&ust=1747220752100000&usg=AOvVaw12U3p10C_W_MTdXXIHg0Mn">Jason Fischer</a>, <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&authuser=1&user=E5cBHVQAAAAJ" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl%3Den%26authuser%3D1%26user%3DE5cBHVQAAAAJ&source=gmail&ust=1747220752100000&usg=AOvVaw2pbU5FCPx56oUqBSE8g5rt">Joana Carvalho</a>, <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&authuser=1&user=hvvrK8cAAAAJ" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl%3Den%26authuser%3D1%26user%3DhvvrK8cAAAAJ&source=gmail&ust=1747220752100000&usg=AOvVaw33wf7GEkUytspgB3TvDy74">Alfonso Caramazza</a>, etc). The projects will relate to work on object and mid-level processing. Below are some examples:</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Mahon, B. Z., & Almeida, J. (2024). <span>Reciprocal interactions among parietal and occipito-temporal representations support everyday object-directed actions. </span><em><span>Neuropsychologia</span></em><span>, <em>198</em>, 108841. </span><span><a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108841" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108841&source=gmail&ust=1747220752100000&usg=AOvVaw2uG-4EC7SwnMO7ZSlozODj">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108841</a></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><span>Almeida, J., Fracasso, A., Kristensen, S., Valério, D., Bergström, F., Chakravarthi, R., Tal, Z., & Walbrin, J. (2023). </span><span>Neural and behavioral signatures of the multidimensionality of manipulable object processing. <em>Communications biology</em>, <em>6</em>(1), 940. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05323-x" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05323-x&source=gmail&ust=1747220752100000&usg=AOvVaw0G4h56mHmOSVuX36lGPcsc">https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05323-x</a></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;"><span>Walbrin, J., & Almeida, J. (2021). High-Level Representations in Human Occipito-Temporal Cortex Are Indexed by Distal Connectivity. <em>The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience</em>, <em>41</em>(21), 4678–4685. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2857-20.2021" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2857-20.2021&source=gmail&ust=1747220752100000&usg=AOvVaw26f5AV3Sd2fXz-0gbrjjeM">https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2857-20.2021</a></span></p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The position is for 2 to 3 years, and the salary is the standard<span> </span><span>Post</span>-<span>Doctoral</span><span> </span>pay-scale in Portugal (net value 1850 euros per month; this is a competitive salary for the cost of living in Portugal and especially in Coimbra). Start time should be as soon as possible.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">The <span>Proaction</span> Lab is currently well-funded as we have a set of on-going funded projects including a Starting Grant ERC to Jorge Almeida, a major European ERA Chair project to Jorge Almeida and Alfonso Caramazza, and other projects. We have access to a 3T MRI scanner with a 32-channel coil, to a 7T scanner (in collaboration with a site outside of Portugal), to tDCS, and to a fully set psychophysics lab. We have a 256 ch EEG, motion tracking and eyetracking on site. We also have a science communication office dedicated to the lab.</p>
<p style="font-weight: 400;">Finally, the University of Coimbra is a 700-year-old University and has been selected as a UNESCO world Heritage site. Coimbra is one of the liveliest university cities in the world, and it is a beautiful city with easy access to the beach and mountain.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">You should apply as soon as you can. If interested send an email to </span><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href="mailto:jorgecbalmeida@gmail.com"><span>jorgecbalmeida@gmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-weight: 400;">, with a CV, and motivation/scientific proposal letter. </span></p>
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