Action Prediction Lab / Patric Bach
@actpredictlab.bsky.social
Patric Bach's Action Prediction Lab at the Uni of Aberdeen, investigating predictive processes in action and social perception.
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EastBio: Neurocognitive mechanisms of altercentric perception and visual perspective taking at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EastBio: Neurocognitive mechanisms of altercentric perception and visual perspective taking at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
Interested in a PhD in EEG/fMRI of spatial/social cognition?
Check out our project for the EastBio competition: fully-funded 4-year PhD, with Patric Bach and Rama Chakravarthi at @abdnpsych.bsky.social, and @moritzwurm.bsky.social at CIMeC, Italy.
tinyurl.com/ypcb4m2c
Deadline: 15/12/2025
Check out our project for the EastBio competition: fully-funded 4-year PhD, with Patric Bach and Rama Chakravarthi at @abdnpsych.bsky.social, and @moritzwurm.bsky.social at CIMeC, Italy.
tinyurl.com/ypcb4m2c
Deadline: 15/12/2025
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✨ Hybrid Event Alert!
The Smoky Mirrors Symposium: Self–Other Actions and Interactions in Real and Virtual Worlds at Aalto University is coming up on 12.12.25 👏
For more information, and to register, click the link below‼️
www.aalto.fi/en/events/sm...
The Smoky Mirrors Symposium: Self–Other Actions and Interactions in Real and Virtual Worlds at Aalto University is coming up on 12.12.25 👏
For more information, and to register, click the link below‼️
www.aalto.fi/en/events/sm...
Smoky Mirrors Symposium: Self-Other Actions and Interactions in Real and Virtual Worlds | Aalto University
We will bring together interdisciplinary work on human–human and human–machine interactions across both real and virtual environments. The symposium will take place at TU Darmstadt (Germany), in a hybrid format.
www.aalto.fi
December 11, 2025 at 8:23 AM
✨ Hybrid Event Alert!
The Smoky Mirrors Symposium: Self–Other Actions and Interactions in Real and Virtual Worlds at Aalto University is coming up on 12.12.25 👏
For more information, and to register, click the link below‼️
www.aalto.fi/en/events/sm...
The Smoky Mirrors Symposium: Self–Other Actions and Interactions in Real and Virtual Worlds at Aalto University is coming up on 12.12.25 👏
For more information, and to register, click the link below‼️
www.aalto.fi/en/events/sm...
Reminder about our project on fMRI/EEG on spatial/social cognition for the EastBio PhD studentship competition.
fully-funded 4-year PhD, with Patric Bach and Rama Chakravarthi at @abdnpsych.bsky.social, and @moritzwurm.bsky.social at CIMeC, Italy.
please share/get in touch
Deadline: 15/12/2025
fully-funded 4-year PhD, with Patric Bach and Rama Chakravarthi at @abdnpsych.bsky.social, and @moritzwurm.bsky.social at CIMeC, Italy.
please share/get in touch
Deadline: 15/12/2025
Interested in a PhD in EEG/fMRI of spatial/social cognition?
Check out our project for the EastBio competition: fully-funded 4-year PhD, with Patric Bach and Rama Chakravarthi at @abdnpsych.bsky.social, and @moritzwurm.bsky.social at CIMeC, Italy.
tinyurl.com/ypcb4m2c
Deadline: 15/12/2025
Check out our project for the EastBio competition: fully-funded 4-year PhD, with Patric Bach and Rama Chakravarthi at @abdnpsych.bsky.social, and @moritzwurm.bsky.social at CIMeC, Italy.
tinyurl.com/ypcb4m2c
Deadline: 15/12/2025
EastBio: Neurocognitive mechanisms of altercentric perception and visual perspective taking at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EastBio: Neurocognitive mechanisms of altercentric perception and visual perspective taking at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Reminder about our project on fMRI/EEG on spatial/social cognition for the EastBio PhD studentship competition.
fully-funded 4-year PhD, with Patric Bach and Rama Chakravarthi at @abdnpsych.bsky.social, and @moritzwurm.bsky.social at CIMeC, Italy.
please share/get in touch
Deadline: 15/12/2025
fully-funded 4-year PhD, with Patric Bach and Rama Chakravarthi at @abdnpsych.bsky.social, and @moritzwurm.bsky.social at CIMeC, Italy.
please share/get in touch
Deadline: 15/12/2025
so, not feedforward. Is this your way of saying the predictive processing people were right all along :p
November 27, 2025 at 2:34 PM
so, not feedforward. Is this your way of saying the predictive processing people were right all along :p
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Are you curious how the brain creates a stable visual world?
Check out our four year EastBio PhD competition project with @mauromanassi.bsky.social, Rama Chakravarthi and Brett Cochrane at @abdnpsych.bsky.social!
Info: tinyurl.com/2s9d4ucw
Deadline: 15 Dec
#PsychSciSky #VisionScience #neuroskyence
Check out our four year EastBio PhD competition project with @mauromanassi.bsky.social, Rama Chakravarthi and Brett Cochrane at @abdnpsych.bsky.social!
Info: tinyurl.com/2s9d4ucw
Deadline: 15 Dec
#PsychSciSky #VisionScience #neuroskyence
EastBio: Behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying visual stabilisation at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EastBio: Behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying visual stabilisation at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
tinyurl.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Are you curious how the brain creates a stable visual world?
Check out our four year EastBio PhD competition project with @mauromanassi.bsky.social, Rama Chakravarthi and Brett Cochrane at @abdnpsych.bsky.social!
Info: tinyurl.com/2s9d4ucw
Deadline: 15 Dec
#PsychSciSky #VisionScience #neuroskyence
Check out our four year EastBio PhD competition project with @mauromanassi.bsky.social, Rama Chakravarthi and Brett Cochrane at @abdnpsych.bsky.social!
Info: tinyurl.com/2s9d4ucw
Deadline: 15 Dec
#PsychSciSky #VisionScience #neuroskyence
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Interested in a PhD in EEG/fMRI of spatial/social cognition?
Check out our project for the EastBio competition: fully-funded 4-year PhD, with Patric Bach and Rama Chakravarthi at @abdnpsych.bsky.social, and @moritzwurm.bsky.social at CIMeC, Italy.
tinyurl.com/ypcb4m2c
Deadline: 15/12/2025
Check out our project for the EastBio competition: fully-funded 4-year PhD, with Patric Bach and Rama Chakravarthi at @abdnpsych.bsky.social, and @moritzwurm.bsky.social at CIMeC, Italy.
tinyurl.com/ypcb4m2c
Deadline: 15/12/2025
EastBio: Neurocognitive mechanisms of altercentric perception and visual perspective taking at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EastBio: Neurocognitive mechanisms of altercentric perception and visual perspective taking at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Interested in a PhD in EEG/fMRI of spatial/social cognition?
Check out our project for the EastBio competition: fully-funded 4-year PhD, with Patric Bach and Rama Chakravarthi at @abdnpsych.bsky.social, and @moritzwurm.bsky.social at CIMeC, Italy.
tinyurl.com/ypcb4m2c
Deadline: 15/12/2025
Check out our project for the EastBio competition: fully-funded 4-year PhD, with Patric Bach and Rama Chakravarthi at @abdnpsych.bsky.social, and @moritzwurm.bsky.social at CIMeC, Italy.
tinyurl.com/ypcb4m2c
Deadline: 15/12/2025
Interested in a PhD in EEG/fMRI of spatial/social cognition?
Check out our project for the EastBio competition: fully-funded 4-year PhD, with Patric Bach and Rama Chakravarthi at @abdnpsych.bsky.social, and @moritzwurm.bsky.social at CIMeC, Italy.
tinyurl.com/ypcb4m2c
Deadline: 15/12/2025
Check out our project for the EastBio competition: fully-funded 4-year PhD, with Patric Bach and Rama Chakravarthi at @abdnpsych.bsky.social, and @moritzwurm.bsky.social at CIMeC, Italy.
tinyurl.com/ypcb4m2c
Deadline: 15/12/2025
EastBio: Neurocognitive mechanisms of altercentric perception and visual perspective taking at University of Aberdeen on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EastBio: Neurocognitive mechanisms of altercentric perception and visual perspective taking at University of Aberdeen , listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Interested in a PhD in EEG/fMRI of spatial/social cognition?
Check out our project for the EastBio competition: fully-funded 4-year PhD, with Patric Bach and Rama Chakravarthi at @abdnpsych.bsky.social, and @moritzwurm.bsky.social at CIMeC, Italy.
tinyurl.com/ypcb4m2c
Deadline: 15/12/2025
Check out our project for the EastBio competition: fully-funded 4-year PhD, with Patric Bach and Rama Chakravarthi at @abdnpsych.bsky.social, and @moritzwurm.bsky.social at CIMeC, Italy.
tinyurl.com/ypcb4m2c
Deadline: 15/12/2025
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2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
Jobs - The University of York
jobs.york.ac.uk
July 21, 2025 at 1:32 PM
2 Lecturer (Assistant Prof) positions available @yorkpsychology.bsky.social! Come join our department!
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs
jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...
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I'm so excited to help bring this Computational Neuroscience workshop to life! Join a fantastic group of researchers in Denmark this August (11-14).
We've designed it for PhDs & postdocs to connect with experts and build new skills. Hope to see you there! Please do share with your colleagues!
We've designed it for PhDs & postdocs to connect with experts and build new skills. Hope to see you there! Please do share with your colleagues!
Register for Computational Neuroscience - NAD Workshop 🖥️
📅 WHEN: August 11-14
🧑🦰 WHO: Neuroscientists affiliated with a Danish research institution
🌍 WHERE: Gl. Avernæs Sinatur Hotel & Konference
⏰ DEADLINE: June 26
Read more and register 👉 bit.ly/3G7hIQ8
📅 WHEN: August 11-14
🧑🦰 WHO: Neuroscientists affiliated with a Danish research institution
🌍 WHERE: Gl. Avernæs Sinatur Hotel & Konference
⏰ DEADLINE: June 26
Read more and register 👉 bit.ly/3G7hIQ8
June 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
I'm so excited to help bring this Computational Neuroscience workshop to life! Join a fantastic group of researchers in Denmark this August (11-14).
We've designed it for PhDs & postdocs to connect with experts and build new skills. Hope to see you there! Please do share with your colleagues!
We've designed it for PhDs & postdocs to connect with experts and build new skills. Hope to see you there! Please do share with your colleagues!
that's really interesting. Do you think this will be different in the next cohort, who grew up with computer games and many of who continue to play computer games? (I do).
June 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
that's really interesting. Do you think this will be different in the next cohort, who grew up with computer games and many of who continue to play computer games? (I do).
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PhD position alert!!!
Together with @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz we are looking for a PhD candidate to join a great project on the biological foundations of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Happy to answer any question you may have!
Together with @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz we are looking for a PhD candidate to join a great project on the biological foundations of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Happy to answer any question you may have!
PhD position in biological foundations of neural control
PhD position in biological foundations of neural control
vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl
June 3, 2025 at 4:54 AM
PhD position alert!!!
Together with @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz we are looking for a PhD candidate to join a great project on the biological foundations of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Happy to answer any question you may have!
Together with @predictivebrain.bsky.social and Sonja Kotz we are looking for a PhD candidate to join a great project on the biological foundations of perceptual decisions vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastric...
Happy to answer any question you may have!
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Interesting new lesion meta-analysis of aphantasia, in line with the importance of a specific region in the fusiform gyrus, previously identified by @alfredospagna.bsky.social et al, for visual mental imagery 🧠
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Visual Mental Imagery and Aphantasia Lesions Map onto a Convergent Brain Network
Background Visual mental imagery, the ability to volitionally form perceptual representations without corresponding external stimuli, allows reliving of past events, solving problems and imagining the...
www.medrxiv.org
May 27, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Interesting new lesion meta-analysis of aphantasia, in line with the importance of a specific region in the fusiform gyrus, previously identified by @alfredospagna.bsky.social et al, for visual mental imagery 🧠
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
That's my question, too -- especially after the "again" in the post. Are you long-term monitoring foot offers on Temu?
May 26, 2025 at 2:29 PM
That's my question, too -- especially after the "again" in the post. Are you long-term monitoring foot offers on Temu?
Isn't that the worst feeling? I know there's something I urgently need to do, but what could it be?
April 29, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Isn't that the worst feeling? I know there's something I urgently need to do, but what could it be?
yeah -- and it feels frivolous to post something else right now. We'd love to share news about a recent paper for example but it feels really weird against the current backdrop.
April 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
yeah -- and it feels frivolous to post something else right now. We'd love to share news about a recent paper for example but it feels really weird against the current backdrop.
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Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵
Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision
doi.org
April 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Very happy to announce that our paper “Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision” is now out as a target article in BBS!! @smfleming.bsky.social and I present a new theory of the evolution and functions of visual consciousness. Article here: doi.org/10.1017/S014.... A (long) thread 🧵
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There’s much more in the paper! Steve and I look forward to your thoughts in the peer commentary that will come with the article (the call for commentaries will come out soon). You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/S014... and preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps....
Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core
Sensory Horizons and the Functions of Conscious Vision
doi.org
April 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
There’s much more in the paper! Steve and I look forward to your thoughts in the peer commentary that will come with the article (the call for commentaries will come out soon). You can find the paper here: doi.org/10.1017/S014... and preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps....
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Happy to share our new paper exploring how the brain might represent decision confidence.
A population representation of the confidence in a decision in the parietal cortex: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...
A population representation of the confidence in a decision in the parietal cortex: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...
A population representation of the confidence in a decision in the parietal cortex
At the end of a decision based on evidence accumulation, the neural representation
of the accumulation is invariant across decisions. Zylberberg and Shadlen show, nonetheless,
that accuracy can be dec...
www.cell.com
April 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Happy to share our new paper exploring how the brain might represent decision confidence.
A population representation of the confidence in a decision in the parietal cortex: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...
A population representation of the confidence in a decision in the parietal cortex: Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Mostly matches mine, with the exception of Last Rites at the top, and Process before Rabies. The post-Dwayne/reunion stuff didn't really do much for me. Felt too clean.
I assume you know their Download sideproject? The early stuff (Furnace, Eyes of Stanley Pain) might be up your alley.
I assume you know their Download sideproject? The early stuff (Furnace, Eyes of Stanley Pain) might be up your alley.
April 15, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Mostly matches mine, with the exception of Last Rites at the top, and Process before Rabies. The post-Dwayne/reunion stuff didn't really do much for me. Felt too clean.
I assume you know their Download sideproject? The early stuff (Furnace, Eyes of Stanley Pain) might be up your alley.
I assume you know their Download sideproject? The early stuff (Furnace, Eyes of Stanley Pain) might be up your alley.
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A new study by 𝐃𝐫. 𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐋. 𝐌𝐜𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 (UEA, School of Psychology), provides evidence that when we know someone’s goal, we subconsciously shift our perception of their actions toward the most relevant outcome. This supports predictive coding theories in social perception and Theory of Mind.
Observers translate information about other agents' higher-order goals into expectations about their forthcoming action kinematics
Social perception relies on the ability to understand the higher-order goals that drive other people's behaviour. Under predictive coding views, this …
www.sciencedirect.com
March 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM
A new study by 𝐃𝐫. 𝐊𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐋. 𝐌𝐜𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 (UEA, School of Psychology), provides evidence that when we know someone’s goal, we subconsciously shift our perception of their actions toward the most relevant outcome. This supports predictive coding theories in social perception and Theory of Mind.
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New preprint “Monkey See, Model Knew: LLMs accurately predict visual responses in humans AND NHPs”
Led by Colin Conwell with @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social Akshay Jagadeesh, Kasper Vinken @amrahs-inolas.bsky.social @jacob-prince.bsky.social George Alvarez @taliakonkle.bsky.social & Marge Livingstone 1/n
Led by Colin Conwell with @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social Akshay Jagadeesh, Kasper Vinken @amrahs-inolas.bsky.social @jacob-prince.bsky.social George Alvarez @taliakonkle.bsky.social & Marge Livingstone 1/n
March 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
New preprint “Monkey See, Model Knew: LLMs accurately predict visual responses in humans AND NHPs”
Led by Colin Conwell with @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social Akshay Jagadeesh, Kasper Vinken @amrahs-inolas.bsky.social @jacob-prince.bsky.social George Alvarez @taliakonkle.bsky.social & Marge Livingstone 1/n
Led by Colin Conwell with @emaliemcmahon.bsky.social Akshay Jagadeesh, Kasper Vinken @amrahs-inolas.bsky.social @jacob-prince.bsky.social George Alvarez @taliakonkle.bsky.social & Marge Livingstone 1/n
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Always remember--this is not a case of Trump appeasing Putin--its actually him joining Putin. Its not Munich 1938, its the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939.
March 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Always remember--this is not a case of Trump appeasing Putin--its actually him joining Putin. Its not Munich 1938, its the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939.
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I mean you don’t need to do this.
Plenty of studies have been done before and conclusively shown there is no link.
Don’t waste your money.
www.theguardian.com/...
Plenty of studies have been done before and conclusively shown there is no link.
Don’t waste your money.
www.theguardian.com/...
CDC to study potential links between vaccines and autism despite research showing no connection
It’s unknown whether Robert F Kennedy Jr, who has promoted anti-vaccine views, is involved in study
www.theguardian.com
March 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I mean you don’t need to do this.
Plenty of studies have been done before and conclusively shown there is no link.
Don’t waste your money.
www.theguardian.com/...
Plenty of studies have been done before and conclusively shown there is no link.
Don’t waste your money.
www.theguardian.com/...
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Exciting News!! 🌞🌊 Adriatica2025 Summer School on "Brain-Body Interactions and Wellbeing" is back with an impressive lineup of speakers in a stunning beachside setting! 🫀🫁🧠🧘
Save the dates: September 8-12, Pescara, Italy.
Stay tuned for more details coming soon!
#TEAMLab #MamboLab #Adriatica2025
Save the dates: September 8-12, Pescara, Italy.
Stay tuned for more details coming soon!
#TEAMLab #MamboLab #Adriatica2025
February 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Exciting News!! 🌞🌊 Adriatica2025 Summer School on "Brain-Body Interactions and Wellbeing" is back with an impressive lineup of speakers in a stunning beachside setting! 🫀🫁🧠🧘
Save the dates: September 8-12, Pescara, Italy.
Stay tuned for more details coming soon!
#TEAMLab #MamboLab #Adriatica2025
Save the dates: September 8-12, Pescara, Italy.
Stay tuned for more details coming soon!
#TEAMLab #MamboLab #Adriatica2025
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I don’t know how I missed this. A group in Beijing have developed an effective brain-inspired vision chip for autonomous machines, robotics, and AI that was inspired by our perception/action account of ventral-dorsal visual processing in primate cerebral cortex.🧪🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A vision chip with complementary pathways for open-world sensing - Nature
Inspired by the human visual system, a vision chip with primitive-based complementary pathways is developed to overcome the power and bandwidth wall of vision systems, achieving fast, precise, robust&...
www.nature.com
February 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I don’t know how I missed this. A group in Beijing have developed an effective brain-inspired vision chip for autonomous machines, robotics, and AI that was inspired by our perception/action account of ventral-dorsal visual processing in primate cerebral cortex.🧪🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
February 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
We have an opening for a 12 month Research Assistant post, funded by an ERC grant. The postholder would help with several neuroimaging projects, including MEG and 7T fMRI. Please repost and share with anyone who may be interested. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/... #neuroskyence #Neuroimaging