[visionlist] Postdoc and PhD opportunity: neuronal basis of consciousness in Monash, Melbourne, Australia

Postdoctoral and PhD positions are available to study the neuronal basis of consciousness in Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. 

We are interested in the neuronal basis of consciousness, and more specifically in the following subtopics: 

1) The scope and limits of non-conscious processing (e.g., Tsuchiya & Koch 2005 Nature Neuroscience, Tsuchiya, Moradi et al 2009 Nature Neuroscience) 

2) The relationship between consciousness and attention (e.g., Koch & Tsuchiya 2007 Trends in Cognitive Science)

We study these topics using a combination of psychophysics and neuroimaging techniques (intracranial recording, fMRI, EEG and TMS).    

At Monash University, we will use a newly built 3T fMRI scanner with a 64-channel coil. The scanner has a capability of simultaneous recording of EEG and simultaneous application of TMS during fMRI acquisition.  

We also intensively collaborate with various institutions, including Caltech, Stanford, Vanderbilt in USA and RIKEN in Japan, to perform intracranial recording in both in human epilepsy patients (Tsuchiya et al 2008 PLoS One, Kovach, Tsuchiya, et al 2010 Neuroimage) and monkeys (Chao, Nagasaka, Fujii 2010 Frontiers in Neuroengineering). 

Besides the interest in neuronal basis of consciousness, computational skills in any language is highly welcomed.  

  

If interested, please contact with me (naotsu@gmail.com) or visit website (http://ow.ly/7puFO for downloading my papers).   I will be available during SFN, especially after my talk on Sun Nov/13 (2:45- at room 147A) "Visual consciousness tracked with direct intracranial recording from early visual cortices in humans".  

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Nao (Naotsugu) Tsuchiya, Ph.D.

1. PRESTO (Sakigake) fellow, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Japan
2. Visiting scholar in Laboratory for Adaptive Intelligence, RIKEN, Japan 

3. Visiting scholar in ATR, Japan 
4. Visitor, Division of Biology, Caltech, USA

From Jan 1, 2012

Associate Professor

School of Psychology and Psychiatry

Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences

Monash University 

homepage: www.emotion.caltech.edu/~naotsu

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