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Position for Postdoctoral Fellow or Research Associate to study learning and manipulate plasticity using fMRI, combined fMRI-microstimulation and multi-tetrode recordings. Position at the level of postdoctoral fellow or research associate is available to study the mechanisms of plasticity in vivo using electrophysiology and fMRI in primates. We employ fMRI in non-human primates to characterize the global organization and re-organization of neural networks that are involved in visual processing and learning. Detailed analysis of the functional properties of individual neurons in these areas and interactions between neurons is done using arrays of chronically implanted tetrodes. This method allows us to record from the same individual neurons across multiple days in awake, behaving primates and thus analyze how circuits reorganize in vivo during plasticity a the single cell level.
We also combine
fMRI with electrical microstimulation to identify functionally
connected circuits and manipulate their activity. |