This message is to inform you that the CNCC Essay Award for Junior
Scholars has been launched. The European Science Foundation offers two
essay prizes of € 1.500 each for academic papers related to the topics of the EUROCORES Programme CNCC – Consciousness in a Natural and Cultural Context. The six finalist papers, including the two winners, will be published on the journal Psyche (http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/) in early 2009.
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Noninvasive functional neuroimaging tools are widely applied to study the human brain in action. However, the hemodynamic signals of the most extensively used method are still not well understood. This joint EPFL and ETHZ PhD project aims at understanding the quantitative aspects of hemodynamic changes that occur in the brain. For this aim, novel multimodal high resolution optical imaging tools will be developed and applied in animal experiments.
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A postdoctoral/research associate position is available in the Lab
for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience at the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Drexel University College of Medicine. Current projects in the lab supported by NIH include (1) computational
modeling of brainstem respiratory network and neural control of breathing and (2) computational modeling of the spinal circuitry involved in the locomotor rhythm generation and neural control of locomotion.
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POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH IN NONLINEAR DYNAMICS OF MEMORY and ACTIVE PERCEPTION
Biologically Inspired Neural & Dynamical Systems (BINDS) Laboratory
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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