Multimodal understanding of intentional decision in the human brain

Our environment constantly demands decisions, and we can intentionally make decisions to fulfill our goals and desires. How does the human brain decide based on intention? What may influence our intentional decisions? This research aims to address to address these long-standing questions in human cognition.

Your specific project may include, brain imaging experiments across multiple modalities (functional and diffusion MRI, MR spectroscopy and MEG) to study the neurobiology of decision-making, computational modelling of brain dynamics during the decision process or statistical modelling on the individual differences in intentional decision.

We encourage candidates from different disciplines (e.g., cognitive/computational neuroscience, psychology, computer science, engineering, mathematics or physics). You will receive multidisciplinary training in cognitive neuroscience, brain imaging and computational modelling. You will be based at Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC) and be part of a thriving research team. CUBRIC houses state-of-the-art brain imaging facilities and world-leading expertise, with 4 human MRI systems (2 x Siemens Prisma, 1 x Siemens Connectom, 1 x Siemens 7T), MEG, EEG, TMS, tDCS, clinical research units and testing labs. Further details can be found on our webpage (http://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/cubric).

This 3-year PhD studentship is part-funded by the European Research Council.