Postdoctoral Position in Computational Neuroscience and Neurorobotics Research at the University of California, Irvine

A postdoctoral position is available in the field of Computational Neuroscience and Cognitive Architectures within the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. The research involves developing computational models of neuromodulatory systems to understand their effect on attention. Different neuromodulatory systems are thought to play important and distinct roles in attention. The research is part of a collaborative effort to model other brain areas involved in human sensemaking, the process by which humans are able to generate explanations for data that are otherwise sparse, noisy, and uncertain. The applicant will work in the Cognitive Anteater Robotics Laboratory at the University of California, Irvine, where researchers are attempting to understand brain function through the use of neurorobots and embodied models of the nervous system.