Subject: Position announcement at IHR: Career Development Fellow From: Christian Sumner <chris@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 15:30:46 -0000 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Career Development Fellowship (REF: IHRCS02) Neural mechanisms of auditory perception and attention IHR conducts fundamental and clinical research into hearing and hearing disorders. Research programmes include neurophysiology, psychoacoustics, functional neuroimaging, event related potentials, and applied and clinical applications. Recent developments in sensory neuroscience have provided direct evidence of how the central nervous system participates in conscious perception. Cutting edge technology allows scientists to record behavioural decisions and the activity of many neurons simultaneously in a freely moving, alert animal. This effectively integrates neuroscience, psychophysics and cognition within a single experimental approach. We have a postdoctoral fellowship vacancy offering a 3 year planned period of training and development utilising this technology to examine directly neural responses to sound and their relationship to auditory perception while actively listening to sounds. It will be used to study the neural mechanisms of auditory detection, discrimination, and attention. IHR boasts world-leading experts in auditory cognition, speech and hearing science, binaural psychoacoustics, audio-visual speech perception, auditory perceptual learning, auditory neurophysiology and cortical plasticity. Our wide range of expertise provides a highly stimulating and collaborative working environment. As an IHR scientist, you will also have access to excellent in-house technical and computer support. Applicants should possess a PhD in one of the following disciplines : any aspect of auditory science; neuroscience; visual science. We particularly welcome applications from those who have recently completed their PhD training, or wishing to move into this exciting research field from any quantitative discipline. As a successful applicant, you will be given every opportunity to establish your reputation as a leader in this field. The appointment is fixed-term for 3 years and will be to a starting salary in the range £24,993 to £26,555. For an informal discussion about this position, please contact Dr Chris Sumner on 0115 922 3431 or email chris@xxxxxxxx Further particulars and an application form (quoting ref. CS02) are available by: • Writing to Personnel, MRC Institute of Hearing Research, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD. • Visiting the “Job Vacancies” section of the Institute’s website (http://www.ihr.mrc.ac.uk) • Sending an email to jobs@xxxxxxxx or phoning the IHR job line on 0115 951 8501 Applicants should send a CV and completed application form with a letter outlining interest and experience and details of at least two referees to be received by 12 January 2007. This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation.