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Adaptive Brain Lab

 

How does the brain piece together information from the senses to interact with a rapidly changing world? This key brain activity underlies important skills such as recognising friends, categorizing objects, moving our bodies to interact with or avoid interesting or dangerous objects and working out where we are in the world.
Work in the Adaptive Brain Lab examines the brain mechanisms underlying our ability to perceive the structure of the world around us. We work on the basic premise that human perception is an active process that relies on the brain bringing together different pieces of sensory information and knowledge gained from past experience. We aim to understand how humans of all ages translate sensory experience into complex decisions and adaptive behaviours by taking into account previous experience and learning.

We address this challenge using an interdisciplinary approach that combines behavioural paradigms, movement recording, multimodal brain imaging (MRI, EEG, MEG, TMS) and state-of-the-art computational methods. We apply these techniques to study the young and ageing brain and understand adaptive behaviours across the lifespan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Research Associate in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (Fixed Term)

1 August 2023

A post-doctoral Research Associate position in Cognitive Computational Neuroscience is available to work with Professor Zoe Kourtzi at the Adaptive Brain Lab, Univ of Cambridge, UK ( http://www.abg.psychol.cam.ac.uk ). The position will focus on cognitive computational neuroimaging studies of learning and brain plasticity...

A post-doctoral or Research Assistant position in AI and Neuroinformatics

10 May 2023

A post-doctoral or Research Assistant position in AI and Neuroinformatics at the Adaptive Brain Lab (University of Cambridge: http://www.abg.psychol.cam.ac.uk ) focusing on developing and translating AI-guided tools for understanding brain processes underlying cognition (e.g. learning and brain plasticity), b) early...

A post-doctoral Research Associate position in Integrative Neuroimaging

10 May 2023

A post-doctoral Research Associate position in Integrative Neuroimaging at the Adaptive Brain Lab (University of Cambridge: http://www.abg.psychol.cam.ac.uk ) focusing on understanding inhibitory networks dynamics for learning and brain plasticity combining multimodal brain imaging (7T fMRI, MR Spectroscopy)...