RESEARCH POSITIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE & MUSIC COGNITION

The Centre for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience and the

Computer Music Research Group, University of Plymouth, UK, are looking

for highly qualified candidates for 2 Post-Doctoral and 2 Research

Assistant positions to work on a 3-year research project in the field

of Computational Neuroscience & Music Cognition, entitled Emergent

Cognition through Active Perception.

The project is funded by the Sixth Framework Programme of the European

Union and involves a consortium lead by Dr Sue Denham, Prof Mike

Denham and Dr Eduardo Miranda (University of Plymouth), in

collaboration with Dr Henkjan Honing (University of Amsterdam,

Institute for Logic, Language and Computation), Prof István Winkler

(Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences), and Prof

Gustavo Deco and Prof Xavier Serra (University Pompeu Fabra,

Barcelona, Music Technology Group & Computational Neuroscience Group).

The goal of the project is to investigate how complex cognitive

behaviour in artificial systems can emerge through interacting with an

environment, and how, by becoming sensitive to the properties of the

environment, such systems can develop effective representations and

processing structures autonomously. Music is an ideal domain in which

to investigate complex cognitive behaviour, since music, like

language, is a universal phenomenon containing complex abstractions

and temporally extended structures, whose organisation is constrained

by underlying rules or conventions that participants need to

understand for effective cognition and interaction. We will

investigate the development of music cognition by combining the

complementary approaches of perceptual experiments using human

subjects, functional and neurocomputational modelling, and the

implementation of an interactive embodied cognitive system.

Provisional project start date: 1 October 2005

More details are available here:

Alternatively contact:

Sue Denham s.denham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Or Eduardo R Miranda eduardo.miranda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx