Postdoctoral Scholar -Spatial Neuroscience (Chrastil Lab)

Dr. Liz Chrastil, PI of the Spatial Neuroscience Laboratory in the Department of Neurobiology & Behavior at the University of California, Irvine, is seeking one or more postdoctoral researchers for the coming year. The Spatial Neuroscience Lab is funded by NIH and NSF, and uses dynamic and interdisciplinary research methods to answer questions about how the human brain processes information to keep us oriented as we navigate through a complicated world. In addition to navigation, our research is deeply connected to the fields of learning, memory, and decision making, with aging, clinical, and translational applications. Our primary techniques are fully immersive virtual reality (VR) and human brain imaging using multimodal magnetic resonance imaging (structural MRI, fMRI, diffusion imaging, resting state) and electroencephalography (EEG).

We are seeking highly creative and motivated researchers for postdoc positions in the following areas:

1) Individual differences in navigational ability, with a focus on multimodal imaging techniques. We have large deep phenotyping datasets of multiple navigation tasks, as well as episodic memory and other cognitive function, which include corresponding anatomical (cortical thickness, hippocampal subfields, diffusion weighted imaging) and functional (resting state, grid-cell like neural correlates) imaging.

2) Navigation abilities across the adult lifespan, working with similar datasets across age groups, with an emphasis on sex differences and the role of sex hormones.

3) Behavioral and/or fMRI investigations of cognitive mapping compared to graph-like topologies, including spatial and abstract graphs of relational information and abstract distance coding.

Chrastil Lab:

https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/spatialneuro/

Qualified candidates should submit curriculum vitae along with the names and addresses of three references to the following on-line recruitment URL:

https://recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF08916

Department: https://neurobiology.uci.edu/

Accepting all applicants.

• 3-5 required (contact information only)

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