PhD Research associate (m/f/x) for the CRC 1844 "Episodic Memory"
PhD Research associate (m/f/x) for the CRC 1844 "Episodic Memory"
The Department of Predictive Cognition is a newly established research unit within the Faculty of Psychology. After the completion of the new THINK research building on the former Opel site Mark 51°7, the team will move there https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/think/index.html.en. The research focus of our department is on combining neuroimaging and behavioural measurements with computational models to understand how the human brain learns and uses prior expectations during cognition. More information can be found here: https://blanklab.eu/
The position is part of the Collaborative Research Center “Episodic Memory” (CRC 1844), an interdisciplinary consortium consisting of researchers from psychology, computational neuroscience, philosophy, and neuroscience. The basis for our research is the Scenario Construction Framework, which conceptualizes episodic memory as mental simulations of past episodes, constructed from episodic memory traces and semantic information. As a part of this team, you will be trained in interdisciplinary research and have access to a broad spectrum of initiatives to support you in your academic journey. When we communicate with others, our perception of their speech is continuously guided by the memory of our past interactions. But how? In this CRC subproject A16 " Integration of episodic traces and semantic other-person models in a social context", we will investigate how memory traces of previously heard dialogues and the other-person model, which contains general semantic knowledge about the person, modify speech perception. This project places the generative model of scenario construction within a social context. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we investigate how EM traces and other-person models differentially influence the neural representation of speech and language. We are looking for an enthusiastic researcher with a Master's degree in psychology, cognitive science, or a related field and strong programming and statistical skills to carry out the proposed project.