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Sent on behalf of Dr. Jonathan Cannon:
Dr. Jonathan Cannon is seeking experimentally- and computationally-oriented graduate students for a new research group studying timing and rhythm in the brain, starting at McMaster University in Canada in July 2022. The successful applicant(s) will help to launch a project exploring the neurophysiological and algorithmic roots of human entrainment to musical rhythm. Depending on their interests, students may take on aspects of the project including timing psychophysics, EEG, fMRI, and design of complex rhythmic stimuli, and/or work with and develop computational models of rhythm perception including continuous-time Bayesian filters and recurrent neural networks. The group will be affiliated with McMaster’s Institute for Music and the Mind (mimm.mcmaster.ca), and students may have opportunities to collaborate with other rhythm researchers at McMaster, across Ontario, and internationally.
The ideas underpinning the project are described in this recent talk from ICMPC 2021: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut104v38yJQ. Further neurophysiological detail is discussed in a 2021 Trends in Cognitive Sciences article (official link, full text also available here), and the accompanying algorithmic perspective is described in a 2021 PLOS Computational Biology article.
General information on the McMaster Department of Psychology, Neuroscience, & Behaviour graduate program and links to application instructions can be found at: science.mcmaster.ca/pnb/.
Specific questions beyond those addressed on this page should be directed to Dr. Jonathan Cannon (jcannon@xxxxxxxxxxx). Please include a CV with your inquiry. |