Seeking Neuroscience MSc Student(s): Visual Attention, Perception, and Cognition.
Dr. Maz Fallah
POSITION DESCRIPTION: The brain takes the 2D image projected onto the eyes and converts it, with apparent ease, into 3-dimensional, object-rich representations of the visual world. However easy it may appear, the underlying visual processing is quite complicated. As the brain has limited capacity to process everything at once, we have developed mechanisms such as attention and other cognitive functions to focus on and quickly process important objects and locations. We are seeking a graduate student to study these underlying cognitive and perceptual processes. The research involves designing experiments and running them on human participants, analyzing the data, and interpreting the results in light of the underlying neural circuitry. The successful candidate will have a relevant background (e.g. neuroscience, psychology, cognitive science, etc).
All interested MSc candidates please contact: mfallah@uoguelph.ca
Seeking Neuroscience MSc Student(s): Gaze Planning and Tracking
Dr. Maz Fallah
POSITION DESCRIPTION: They say the eyes are a window to our souls. We continue to show how the eyes intrinsically reflect other brain functions. To this end, we are seeking a graduate student to study how eye movements reflect underlying cognitive and perceptual processing, in health and disease. The candidate will investigate how gaze reflects feature- and object-based visual processing, decision-making, target selection, and cognitive strategies. The research involves designing experiments using infrared eye trackers, analyzing gaze metrics, and using the results to advance our understanding of how we process the world around us to be able to act upon it. There is the potential to advancing our computational models and develop neural network models. The successful candidate will have a relevant background (e.g. neuroscience, human kinetics, psychology, cognitive science, biomedical science, informatics, etc) and preferably some programming skills (e.g. Matlab).
All interested MSc candidates please contact: mfallah@uoguelph.ca