Missions

- Design experiments to investigate the diverse mechanisms (e.g attention, acoustic and semantic processing) involved when humans listen to naturalistic auditory scenes. The experiments will collect behavioral, MEG (OPM and SQUID), EEG and Eye Tracker data.
- Analysis of the data collected, especially MEEG and behaviorals.
- Compare the alignment between MEEG data, behavioral data, and acustic and semantic models developed within the project.
- Assure the methodological and scientific coherence between the two center of the Synergy project.
- Co-supervision of the PhD students and lab-development co-coordination

Activities

- Design pilot and data collection of MEEG and behavioral experiments with Psychtoolbox, JsPsych, Pavlovia
- Univarate and multivariete analysis (RSA, encoding and decoding models) of MEEG data at sensor and source level with Python and MNE-Python
- Pipeline development in Python and MNE-Python
- Articles preparation, presentations and workshopsmantenimento di codice open source.

Skills

- Doctorate in Neuroscience and cognitive science with specialization in auditory (scene) analysis.
- Experience in cognitive neuroscience experiments with Psychtoolbox, and behavioral online experiments with Pavlovia.
- Experience with MEEG and behavioral analysis and Brain-models alignment preferibly in Python.
- Experience in Representational Similarity Analysis, and models development.
- Fluent in open-source code development with Git.
- Scientific rigor, organizational skills, ability to prioritize and restructure the hierarchy of tasks within a collaborative project.
- Compétences relationnelles pour faciliter le travail au sein d'un environnement scientifique interdisciplinaire et multicentrique.
- Fluency in written and spoken English; the knoweldge of French is a welcome plus, but not mandatory.

Work Context

The position is hosted at the Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone (INT), a CNRS / Aix-Marseille University laboratory on the Timone campus in Marseille. You will work in the team of Dr Bruno Giordano.
The NASCE project combines expertise in neuroscience, artificial intelligence, and cognitive psychology to develop a unified theory of auditory-scene analysis in brains and machines. Close collaboration with Prof Elia Formisano's group (Maastricht University) will give you direct access to the ultra-high-field MRI and AI-modelling work packages.

Constraints and risks

The project does not involve any particular constraints or risks.