Experimental and Applied Psychophysics

Cochlear implant research in Cambridge

2010-11-10T14:19:00.000-08:00

Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit – Cambridge
Research Assistant

The MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBSU) is an internationally renowned research institute. Applications are invited for a Research Assistant to work on a grant from MRC Technology to Dr R.P. Carlyon and Dr. Olivier Macherey. The post-holder will test some new cochlear-implant speech-processing strategies, to see whether they improve speech and/or music perception by cochlear implant listeners. This will be a full time position for a minimum of 7 months initially, although a slightly longer appointment may be made if funding is available . Part-time for a longer period may also be considered.

You will have a degree in psychology, audiology or a related discipline. Good communication skills and the ability to work well with hearing-impaired people are especially important. Experience with auditory equipment and/or cochlear implants would also be an advantage.

The starting salary will be in the range of £20,074 - £27,271 per annum, depending upon qualifications and experience. We offer a flexible pay and reward policy, 30 days annual leave entitlement, and an optional MRC final salary Pension Scheme. On site car and bicycle parking is available.

For informal discussion please contact Dr Carlyon bob.carlyon@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk

If you would like to receive this advert in large print, Braille, audio, or electronic format/ hard copy, please contact the Recruitment team at the MRC Shared Service Centre on the telephone number below or SSCMRCRecruitment@ssc.rcuk.ac.uk.

Applications for these posts must now be made online at http://jobs.mrc.ac.uk. Please ensure that you upload a current CV and covering letter with your application. If you do not have internet access or experience technical difficulties, please call 01793 867959.

Dr Bob Carlyon,
Programme Leader,
MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit,
15 Chaucer Rd.,
Cambridge,
CB2 7EF,
England.
tel: +44 1223 355294

Marie Curie Post-doc position

2010-10-06T13:03:00.000-07:00

Dear readers of this list,

Are you a PhD holder, national from Europe, and residing since 3 years
or more *outside* Europe (i.e. outside the European Union or FP7
Associated Countries)?

Then you might be interested in applying with our research group to a
3 years post-doc position in Porto, Portugal, in:
* Music Information Retrieval
* Human-Computer Musical Interaction
* Automatic Music Generation
* Music applications of Pattern Recognition
* Music Robotics
* Audio Processing
... or a related field.

The Programme is called "WELCOME II Promoting the return of
researchers to the European Research Area".
The salary is between €61k - €68k per year (depending on early
post-doc, or experienced post-doc)
+ mobility and travel allowance (1.600€)
+ research costs (5.000€/year)

Deadline: December 12th 2010
Expected start of contract: May 2011

For further information on that Programme, please have a look at:
http://omega.fct.mctes.pt/contratacaodoutorados/welcomeII.pdf
and http://alfa.fct.mctes.pt/welcome2

For further information on our research group, please have a look at
our website (http://smc.inescporto.pt/).
Our research team is part of the INESC Porto (Institute for Systems
and Computer Engineering of Porto), a private non-profit association,
recognized as Public Interest Institution, that has been recently
appointed as Associated Laboratory by the Portuguese State
(http://www2.inescporto.pt/ip-en).

If you are interested, or for any information regarding our research,
please contact me directly: fgouyon@inescporto.pt
Best regards,
--
Fabien Gouyon, PhD
Senior Research Scientist, INESC Porto
Invited Assistant Professor, Engineering Faculty, University of Porto
http://www.inescporto.pt/~fgouyon

Open positions at UCL Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences

2010-09-27T05:12:00.000-07:00

The UCL Cognitive, Perceptual and Brain Sciences (CPB) Research Department, within the Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, is planning the future appointment of at least two and likely more academic posts (at Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Reader or Professor level) to complement existing strengths. For one post the emphasis is on multimodal communication, with ideal candidates having research interests that include sign language/deafness research. For a second post, the emphasis is on Decision and Cognitive Sciences. However, we would also encourage other candidates with an excellent record of internationally renowned research in other areas represented within the department (including computational and animal neuroscience) to express their interest in the posts.

UCL CPB offers a top research and teaching environment with research covering behavioural neuroscience, perceptual and cognitive sciences and cognitive neuroscience. Members of the department are directly involved in the activities of a number of research centres, including the Deafness, Cognition and Language (DCAL) centre, the Institute of Behavioural Neuroscience (IBN), the Birkbeck/UCL Centre for Neuroimaging
(BUCNI) and the Centre for Mathematics and Physics in the Life Sciences and Experimental Biology (CoMPLEX). They further contribute to the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (ICN) and the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience. Research facilities available to members of staff comprise state-of-the-art equipment for most types of behavioural research including a multimodal communication laboratory, animal housing facility, MRI scanner and TMS facilities. At this stage, we invite informal expression of interest (including a CV and statement of research interests) which should be directed to Kate Jeffery by email at k.jeffery@ucl.ac.uk before October 20 2010.

Doctoral Position Available – Auditory Perception, University of Louisville

2009-10-29T00:33:00.000-07:00

Doctoral Position Available – Auditory Perception, University of Louisville
Application Deadline: December 1, 2009.

The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of
Louisville invites applicants to our Ph.D. program in experimental
psychology, with interests in auditory perception, broadly defined. This
is a fully-funded 4-year position (starting August 2010) that would involve
both classroom and laboratory training in auditory perception and
experimental psychology. Research will be conducted in relation to an NIH-
funded project which studies the effects of acoustic reflections on human
sound localization and speech communication. Foci of the project include
study of adaptive perceptual processes that facilitate listening
performance in reflective environments and the potential impact of hearing
loss on these processes. Specific training in virtual auditory space
simulation technologies will also be available, as these technologies are
used extensively throughout the project. Additional information about the
project and the research laboratory is available at
www.louisville.edu/psychology/zahorik.

Research and training activities take place at both the Heuser Hearing
Research Center (www.thehearinginstitute.org) and at the University of
Louisville, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
(www.louisville.edu/psychology). Together, these environments offer
outstanding research facilities, including a new anechoic chamber facility
due to be completed this Fall, as well as a broad and active research
community in human perception and performance.

Preference will be given to candidates with demonstrated excellence in
academic performance and good
quantitative/programming skills. Previous experience in the hearing
sciences, perceptual psychology, or related field is desirable, but not
mandatory.

Application procedures and materials are available online at:
http://louisville.edu/psychology/doctorate/experimental-
psychology/apply.html

Please address any inquiries regarding this position to:

Dr. Pavel Zahorik
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
Email: pavel.zahorik@louisville.edu (Preferred)

Nuovo master in Scienze e Tecnologie della Visione

2009-09-11T00:56:00.000-07:00

Il Master interfacoltà (Scienze MM.FF.NN., Ingegneria, Psicologia) in Scienze e Tecnologie della Visione (I livello) è un corso post-laurea professionalizzante che mira a fornire un quadro di conoscenze sulla visione e sui dispositivi ottici ampio, coordinato e con finalità applicative.
I dipartimenti proponenti sono Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione (Dipartimento di riferimento) Dipartimento di Fisica e Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale. Collabora il Dipartimento di Neuroscienze-Oculistica.
Per maggiori informazioni:
http://master.dei.unipd.it/ottica_e_visione/Index.html

Postdoctoral positions in vision and auditory research

2009-07-30T23:35:00.001-07:00

Two newly created positions, one in vision and one in audition, are available in the lab of Dale Purves, which has now moved to the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore.

Research in the laboratory concerns visual and auditory perception and the neurobiological underpinnings of perceptual phenomena. Ongoing investigations in vision include understanding the perception of brightness, color, orientation, motion, and depth; the interest in audition concerns understanding the tonal relationships in music arising from the similarity of musical dyads and voiced speech spectra. The unifying theme of these projects is the hypothesis that visual and auditory percepts are generated according to a wholly empirical strategy that represents in perception the empirical significance of sensory stimuli rather than their physical properties. These issues are being explored by psychophysics, analyses of natural image and sound databases, and the emerging properties of virtual organisms evolving in defined environments. See purveslab.net for details.

Applicants should have a PhD in neuroscience, psychology, computer science or a related discipline. Applications must include a CV with the names and contact information of three references, preferably sent by email to purves@duke.edu. Applications by regular mail to should be addressed to Dale Purves, M.D., Director, Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, 8 College Road, Singapore 169857.

3.5 year PhD studentship in multimodal interaction, University of Edinburgh

2009-07-14T08:11:00.001-07:00

Multimodal Reminders in the Home

3.5 year PhD studentship
at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

The project will investigate the effects of ageing and hearing loss on the usability and intelligibility of auditory reminders in the home environment. Speech and non-speech audio reminders will be compared systematically under a variety of realistic conditions. Experiments will be based on a dual-task paradigm, where participants perform a distractor task while attending to and/or acting on auditory reminders.

The project is a collaboration with the Department of Computer Science, Glasgow (Prof. Brewster, Dr. McGee-Lennon), and the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Queen Margaret University (Pauline Campbell, Christine DePlacido). The successful candidate will be working closely with a PhD candidate at Glasgow who will be specialising in multimodal reminders, in particular tactile and olfactory reminders. Both candidates will collaborate on a pilot reminder system that will be trialled in users' homes.

This project would suit candidates from a variety of backgrounds, including human-computer interaction, speech science, audiology, medical physics, rehabilitation engineering, ergonomics, phonetics, or cognitive psychology.

All applicants should have completed their first degree before taking up the post. Applicants should have at least basic programming skills (at least one of Java, C++, Python). Skills in experimental design and statistics are highly desirable. Familiarity with software such as SPSS, matlab, or R is a bonus. Applicants should also be open to qualitative approaches to research.

The position is fully funded for 3.5 years through a stipend from the UK Engineering Physical Sciences and Research Council. The stipend is currently around £12900 per annum. In addition, fees for UK and European students are covered.

The School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, came top in the last UK Research Assessment Exercise. The School offers a wide range of support and courses for post-graduate students.
For further information about the Informatics PhD programme, see
http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/phd.html
For further information about the Centre for Speech Technology Reseach, Edinburgh, see
http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk
For more information about the Multimodal Interaction Group, Glasgow, see
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~stephen/
For more information about Speech and Hearing Sciences , QMU, see
http://www.qmu.ac.uk/sls

The successful candidate will start on October 1, 2009. Provisionally, the supervisors
will be Prof Steve Renals, Dr Maria Wolters, and Dr Marilyn McGee-Lennon (Glasgow).

The deadline for receiving applications is July 31, 2009.
More information about the application process can be found here:
http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/apply.html

For further information, please contact

Dr Maria Wolters, maria.wolters@ed.ac.uk
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mwolters

"Quel che par non xe'. La luce , l'occhio e le illusioni ottiche" Lusiana (VI) - 18 Luglio - 23 agosto 2009

2009-07-14T03:04:00.000-07:00

Cari colleghi ed amici,

dal 18 Luglio al 23 Agosto si terrà a Lusiana (Altipiano di Asiago) una mostra, con la sponsorizzazione del Dipartimento di Psicologia di Padova, sulla luce e le illusioni ottiche da disegni ed oggetti comuni. Vi allego locandina.
In occasione della mostra il 31 Luglio si terrà un convegno sulla “Rilevanza delle illusioni nello studio della percezione visiva” con interventi di: Vicario, Agostini, Luccio, Stucchi, Da Pos, Zavagno, Gori.
Sperando che la cosa vi interessi e avete occasione di passare da queste parti o voglia di fare una gita, vi mando i miei più cordiali saluti.

Mario Zanforlin

PhD position: Temporal aspects of auditory intensity processing

2009-07-14T03:02:00.000-07:00

A PhD position in psychoacoustics / experimental psychology is available in the lab of Dr. Daniel Oberfeld (Dept. of Psychology, University of Mainz, Germany), in the project "Temporal aspects of auditory intensity processing" funded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft.
The position (“wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter”, TV-L 13 50%, part time 20 hours/week) is available for 2 years. Earliest starting date is Aug. 1, 2009.

In the project, auditory intensity discrimination under non-simultaneous masking will be studied. Maskers presented in temporal proximity to the target stimulus can cause strong impairment in intensity resolution. Previous studies indicated that these effects can not be fully explained by mechanisms in the auditory periphery but suggested a role of more centrally located processes. The project will combine different methods in order to gain a better understanding of the underlying processes, with a focus on auditory attention. In one series of experiments, the hypothesis will be tested that auditory object perception provides a framework for understanding the psychoacoustic effects. In other experiments, the decision process in an intensity discrimination task will be studied by means of "molecular" analyses of the behavioral data. Mathematical and physiological models will be considered in the data analysis.

Duties and responsibilities:
* Planning and realization of the experiments
* Data collection
* Statistical analyses and interpretation of the data
* Modeling of the results (where applicable)
* Communication of the results at conferences and in scientific papers

Requirements:
* Strong interest in human auditory perception
* University Diploma or Master in psychoacoustics, experimental psychology, computer science, electrical engineering, physics, mathematics, biology, or cognitive neuroscience
* Previous experience and skills in at least one of the following fields: psychoacoustics, psychophysics, programming (e.g., Matlab), experimental psychology, modeling
* Good statistical and methodological skills
* Excellent speaking and writing skills in English

Besides access to a well-equipped psychoacoustics lab, interested candidates will have the opportunity to use the Department's EEG lab. It is also possible to conduct fMRI experiments in cooperation with the University Hospital.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr. Daniel Oberfeld, oberfeld@uni-mainz.de.

Please send applications (including CV, certificates, documentation of skills relevant to the project, and a short description of your research interests) by Aug. 10, 2009 per email (PDF preferred) to oberfeld@uni-mainz.de.

The University of Mainz is an equal opportunity employer. Women are encouraged to apply. Disabled applicants will receive priority in case they have equal qualifications.

Best,

Daniel

--
Dr. Daniel Oberfeld-Twistel
Johannes Gutenberg - Universitaet Mainz
Department of Psychology
Experimental Psychology

La nuova pagina web è online

2009-01-26T03:09:00.000-08:00

E' finalmente online la nuova pagina web del nostro gruppo di ricerca. L'indirizzo è il solito:
http://vision.psy.unipd.it/

Mostra di Manfredo Massironi

2008-12-22T08:35:00.000-08:00

Fino all'8 marzo 2009, in Galleria Cavour, in piazza Cavour a Padova, c'è una mostra dedicata a Manfredo Massironi. Chi fosse interessato può trovare maggiori informazioni seguendo questo link: http://www.padovanet.it/dettaglio.jsp?id=12025

La dura vita del dottorando

2008-11-06T06:34:00.001-08:00

Muore Perception & Psychophysics!

2008-10-15T06:39:00.000-07:00

E nasce "Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics". Dopo 70 volumi pubblicati la mia rivista preferita cambia nome! La solita attenzione prezzemolina...
Ecco l'unica informazione ufficiale che sono riuscito a recuperare in rete:
http://www.psychonomic.org/inst.htm

Nasce il blog "Experimental and Applied Psychophysics"

2008-10-15T06:38:00.001-07:00

Cari tutti,

questo è il primo post del blog. Spero che possa venire utilizzato come una lavagna dove si possano scrivere le cose che più ci interessano.

Buon-blog,
m