The Natural Intelligence Lab, headed by Zhaoping Li at the University of Tübingen and Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, has positions available for highly motivated PhD students and postdocs interested in visual psychophysics and fMRI.

The lab is interested in all areas of vision science, with a particular focus on exploring a new framework for the visual system, whereby (1) V1 is responsible for the initial saliency computations to select a part of the visual input for further processing, (2) V1 relays that saliency information directly to motor structures for generating short-latency orienting movements to place the selected visual object in the central visual field, and (3) stimuli in central and peripheral visual fields undergo differential processing by V1 and higher visual areas. We use a variety of experimental and theoretical techniques including human psychophysics and eye tracking, fMRI, TMS, ERP, and computational modeling. Current and planned projects involve visual search, gaze behavior, object recognition and visual illusions, among others. See https://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/sensory-and-sensorimotor-systems for more
information.

Applicants should be skilled with visual psychophysics, fMRI and/or computational modeling. It is not necessary to have skills in both experiments and modeling although having both is a plus.

Please send your CV and statement of research, or informal enquiries, to jobs.li@tuebingen.mpg.de.