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Position for Postdoctoral Fellow or Research Associate to study the neural circuits that govern visual processing and learning using multi-tetrode recordings and two-photon imaging. Position at the level of postdoctoral fellow or research associate is available to study the neuronal mechanisms that govern perception and learning. Our focus is to understand the mechanisms of these processes at the circuit level in the visual system. To this end, we employ methods that allow us to study the properties of network of neurons in vivo during behavior. Specifically, we use chronic arrays of tetrodes and in vivo two-photon imaging combined with psychophysical and computational methods. We have developed the capability to
record from the same individual neurons across multiple days in
awake, behaving primates that gives us the unique opportunity to
study how circuits reorganize in vivo during learning. Our lab has
also strong interest to develop new technologies to record from
interconnected neural circuits using novel imaging and
multi-electrode recording methods and also to develop methods –
including molecular tools - to manipulate the activity of circuits
in vivo. The research scientists for these positions will have the
opportunity to study brain mechanisms of behavior using one or a
combination of these methods in either rodent or primate animal
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