Nine (9) PhD Scholarships in Interdisciplinary Areas - Neurology, University of Salzburg, Austria (2015)

We are inviting applications for 9 fully funded PhD studentships in the following interdisciplinary areas: biology, cognitive neurology, cognitive science, and psychology.

DK Faculty and research projects:

Florian Hutzler: i) Reverse inference in functional connectivity studies
ii) Connectivity during natural reading in ecologically valid settings (fixation-related BOLD)

Eva Jonas: i) Experiencing threat: Social-cognitive, neural, affective, and motivational perspectives
ii) Managing threat: Social-cognitive, neural, affective, and motivational perspectives

Wolfgang Klimesch: i)Temporal attention, alpha phase and slow oscillations
ii) Memory capacity and the inhibition of distracting information

Martin Kronbichler: i) Examining brain connectivity abnormalities in mental disorders
ii) Brain connectvity and individual differences in cognitive abilities

Josef Perner: i) Brain imaging counterfactual thinking and emotions
ii) Tracking brain processes underlying identity statements and theory of mind

Belinda Pletzer: i) Sex hormone influences on brain connectivity and higher cognitive functions
ii) Sex hormone influences on inter-hemispheric connectivity and global-local processing

Manuel Schabus: i) Consolidation of motor skills during sleep
ii) Sleep and residual cognitive processing in disorders of consciousness

Eugen Trinka: i) Emotion recognition and social cognition in juvenile myoclonic epilepsy
ii) Memory in lesional drug resistant mesial temporal lobe epilepsy

Frank Wilhelm: i) Neural processes underlying intrusive memory formation in PTSD
ii) Dieting, thought control, and fronto-limbic connectivity: New hope for obesity?

The program will admit students for the upcoming semester (1st March 2015) or winter semester (1st October 2015) and offers numerous benefits to its students: salary for a period of 3 to 4 years (including health and social insurance), equipped work space, cover of research consumables, specific technological training courses (e.g. fMRI, EEG), presentation, writing and teaching skill training, full funding of congress participation, workshops and international courses, including stays in foreign partner laboratories.

Further details:
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