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Applications are invited for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow to work at the University of Iowa with the cochlear implant research team. The successful candidate will work on a subproject of our renewed NIDCD P50 grant aimed at studying the central auditory function (e.g., auditory object formation) of hearing impaired listeners and longitudinal changes in cortical networks induced by hearing intervention. The project leaders are Drs. Tim Griffiths and Bob McMurray. Drs. Inyong Choi and Phillip Gander will provide on-site training and supervision at the University of Iowa. The methodological focus of the project is high-density EEG, PET, and their relationship to behavioral performance in cochlear implant recipients, hearing aid users, and normal hearing controls. This position will provide a unique opportunity to collect electrophysiological and neuroimaging data from a large cohort of hearing impaired listeners. The candidate will be involved in all stages of designing and conducting experiments, analyzing data, and preparing reports. Ideal candidates will have strong research interests in human neuroscience and translational hearing science. A Ph.D. degree in neuroscience, biomedical engineering, audiology, psychology, or related field is recommended. Computational background with experience in neuroimaging data would be beneficial. Previous experience with hearing impaired populations is preferred but not required. The candidate will be expected to disseminate the results in high quality academic publications and at academic conferences. The initial appointment will be for two years starting June 2018 but can be extended up to four years. Salary will be based on the NIH guideline. If you are interested in this position, please contact Dr. Inyong Choi (inyong-choi@xxxxxxxxx) and/or Dr. Phillip Gander (phillip-gander@xxxxxxxxx) with a brief description of your research experience and interests, a CV, and contact information of two references. We plan to review applications in April 2018. If you are interested in this position AND coming to the ARO 2018 MidWinter meeting, please talk to us! Here is the list of our research team’s presentations. By glancing the titles, you will also be able to get an idea about our research directions. __________ Session: Hearing with Prostheses (Feb 10th Saturday afternoon) (PS 136) Frontal and auditory cortex interplay predicts variances of speech-in-noise understanding in cochlear implant users, Inyong Choi; Subong Kim; Adam Schwalje; Youngmin Na; Phillip Gander; Andrew S. Liu; Jihwan Woo; Bob McMurray; Timothy Griffiths (PS 137) Cortical evoked responses reflect cochlear implant-induced improvement of speech-in-noise understanding in single-sided deafness, Inyong Choi; Subong Kim; Adam Schwalje; Camille Dunn; Bruce Gantz (PS 138) Temporal Coherence, But Not Spectral Coherence, of Background Noise Improves Speech Discrimination for Cochlear Implantees, Adam Schwalje; Subong Kim; Kate Gfeller; Inyong Choi (PS 139) Electric and Acoustic Pitch Fusion Ability Predicts Speech-in-Noise Performance in Hybrid Cochlear Implant Users, Adam Schwalje; Damien Bonnard; Bruce Gantz; Inyong Choi Session: Perception of complex sounds (Feb 10th Saturday afternoon) (PS 185) Behavioural evidence for a relationship between auditory object grouping and speech-in-noise processing, Phillip Gander; Inyong Choi; Bob McMurray; Timothy Griffiths Session: Auditory Cortex: Anatomy, Physiology & Function I (Feb 10th Saturday afternoon) (PD 07) Natural Speech-Evoked Frontal Cortex Response Reflects Speech-In-Noise Understanding Difficulty, Subong Kim; Adam Schwalje; Phillip Gander; Andrew S. Liu; Timothy Griffiths; Inyong Choi Session: Auditory Prostheses III (Feb 11th Sunday morning) (PD 30) O-15 Water PET study of speech in noise processing in cochlear implant patients, Phillip Gander; Laura Ponto; Inyong Choi; Bob McMurray; Timothy Griffiths Session: Auditory Cortex, Speech & Music (Feb 13th Tuesday afternoon) (PS 853) Evidence of Predictive Coding in Auditory Cortex for Lexical Judgements of Spoken Words, Andrew S. Liu; Christopher Kovach; Hiroto Kawasaki; Matthew Howard; Bob McMurray |