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About the Project

The PhD project will investigate the electrophysiological mechanisms underlying curiosity-based memory in healthy participants. You will be part of the Motivation and Memory Lab (group leader: Dr Matthias Gruber) at CUBRIC, Cardiff University. We are looking for a motivated and talented candidate who will use (1) MEG and/or EEG to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying the initial encoding stage of curiosity-related information and (2) polysomnography to investigate sleep-related consolidation mechanisms underlying curiosity-based memory retention. Sleep studies including polysomnography will be conducted at CUBRIC’s state-of-the-art sleep labs in collaboration with CUBRIC’s head of sleep labs (Prof Penny Lewis). You will modify existing experimental protocols to study how curiosity states affect initial encoding and memory consolidation, but you will also develop new experimental protocols to study curiosity-based memory. Creativity in designing new experiments, experience in programming (Matlab, Python, or a virtual reality software package) and experience with neuroimaging (MRI or especially M/EEG) are essential criteria.

Funding Notes

The studentship will commence in April 2019, and will cover your tuition fees (at UK/EU level) as well as a maintenance grant. In 2018-2019 the maintenance grant for full-time students was £14,777 per annum. As well as tuition fees and a maintenance grant, all School of Psychology students receive conference and participant money (approx. £2250 for the duration of the studentship). They also receive a computer and office space, additional funding for their research, and access to courses offered by the University’s Doctoral Academy and become members of the University Doctoral Academy.

References

You can apply online - consideration is automatic on applying for a PhD in Psychology, with an April 2019 start date (programme code RFPDPSYC).

Please use our online application service at http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/applying

and specify in the funding section that you wish to be considered for School funding.

Please specify that you are applying for this particular project.

You will need to submit a 2-page research proposal and two pieces of written work (including the MSc dissertation or BSc Research Project/Dissertation if no MSc obtained)

Application deadline: 8th of February 2019 with interviews (either in person or by Skype) being held on or around 21st of February 2019 and decisions being made by 28 February.

Where will I study?

Cardiff University

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Electrophysiological mechanisms underlying curiosity-based memory

Cardiff University Cardiff School of Psychology