Fiebach Cognitive Neuroscience Lab

Studentische Hilfskraftstelle bei der Hertie-Stiftung in Frankfurt: Für das Informationsportal www.dasgehirn.info sucht die Hertistiftung eine studentische Hilfskraft (15 Std./Woche).

Voraussetzungen: eingeschriebene/r Student/in bis Wintersemester 2015/16, Kenntnisse in neuro- oder lebenswissenschaftlichen Themen, Erfahrung mit MS-Office und CMS.

Bewerbungsschluss: 08.12.2014.

Nähere Informationen erhalten Sie bei: Dr. Sarah Gierhan, [email protected]

Studentische Hilfskraft gesucht!!

Wir suchen eine Studentin oder einen Studenten, der/die bei einem Forschungsprojekt zur Neurokognition der Satzverarbeitung mitarbeiten möchte. Aufgabenfelder umfassen Erstellung von Stimulusmaterialien, Vorbereitung (unter Anleitung) von Experimenten, Mitarbeit bei Datenerhebung und -auswertung. Programmierkenntnisse (z.B. python, matlab, R) sind hilfreich, oder die Bereitschaft, Programmierung in einer Skriptsprache zu erlernen.

Die Stelle ist zunächst auf 20h / Monat ausgelegt, kann aber in der Zukunft auch aufgestockt werden.

Nachfragen und Bewerbungen bitte an Dr. Jona Sassenhagen: [email protected]

Our paper on gray matter changes during learning to read is featured on the Webpage of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society!!! Read more: http://www.cogneurosociety.org/reading_linkersdorfer/

Cognitive Neuroscience Society » Blog Archive » How Do Children Learn to Read? Structural... Ka-Ka-Ka-r-r-r-et-et-et: Carrot. For parents helping their children learn to read, sounding out words like that is a daily occurrence. Letter-by-letter, syllable-by-syllable, kids make the sounds before thinking about the meaning of the words. As they become reading proficient, they can recognize th…

Reading acquisition in children is accompanied by changes in gray matter thickness. This recently published longitudinal study of children in their 1st and 2nd year of school shows that increases in reading proficiency are associated with focal reductions in gray matter thickness in language areas. Furthermore, baseline gray matter volume in left superior temporal cortex is predictive of later improvements in reading abilities. Find out more here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25203270
This is one of the first imaging studies resulting from our work at Frankfurt's IDeA Center. http://www.idea-frankfurt.eu/en/welcome?set_language=en

The Association between Gray Matter Volume a... [J Cogn Neurosci. 2014] - PubMed - NCBI PubMed comprises more than 23 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Individual differences in intelligence are a result of differences in the connectivity of wide spread regions of the human brain. While earlier work has often sought to identify brain regions related to intelligence, this recent study from our lab is the first study to investigate brain functional connectivity correlates of intelligence. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289613000998

Intelligence is differentially related to neural effort in the task-positive and the...

The new Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics has taken up its work in fall 2013! We are looking forward to the exciting interdisciplinary research that will be conducted at this institute!
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The Department of Psychology moved to their new building at the beautiful Campus Westend of Goethe University!!!

Working memory for sentences: A recent fMRI study - conducted in collaboration with colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science in Leipzig - shows us why it is easier to remember sentences in working memory than unconnected words. In brief, encoding of sentences (but not word lists) activates brain regions involved in syntax and semantics. Thus, greater effort during encoding is rewarded by decreased demands on active maintenance of information in working memory. Read more at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24405186

Brain signature of working memory for senten... [J Cogn Neurosci. 2014] - PubMed - NCBI PubMed comprises more than 23 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full-text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.

Cognitive flexibility in mice: A collaboration with colleagues from the Central Institute of Mental Health in Mannheim, in the context of the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience ( ) resulted in a translational animal paradigm for mice, that is based on our work on cognitive flexibility and stability published 2012 in JOCN. STABFLEX paradigm for mice published 2014 in Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience: http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00154/abstract

Touchscreen-paradigm for mice reveals cross-species evidence for an antagonistic relationship of ... The abilities to either flexibly adjust behavior according to changing demands (cognitive flexibility) or to maintain it in the face of potential distractors (cognitive stability) are critical for ...

Pharmacological stimulation of D2 dopamine receptors influences cognitive flexibility. This recent report in Cortex from our group supports the results of an earlier study in which we investigated the effect of a genetic polymorphism on task switching. Read more at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23660437

Stress influences decision making: A recent paper from our lab shows that acute stress influences risk taking but not decision making under ambiguity. Published 2014 in Frontiers in Decision Neuroscience: http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnins.2014.00082/abstract

Studentische Hilfskraft gesucht:

Research assistant position available at the ESI for neuroscience in cooperation with Max Planck society.

Location: Deutschordenstr. 46, D-60528 Frankfurt.

Description: ESI for neuroscience in cooperation with Max Planck society has an opening for a part time research assistant position (~ 10 weekly hours) working with Dr. Ayelet Landau on a research project investigating visual attention and time perception. Responsibilities will include participant recruitment, running behavioral as well as MEG (magnetoencephalography) experiments with healthy human participant. Opportunities to get actively involved in data analysis will also be available (with the respective training).

Starting date: as soon as the position is filled.

Requirements: Proficiency in English, proficiency in German, good inter personal skills, basic computer skills (e.g. windows, MS Office programs) and good organizational skills.

Advantageous but not required: An interest in cognitive neuroscience, programming skills (e.g., matlab, R, SPSS, python) or previous experience in experimental research.

Application: Please email Dr. Ayelet Landau at: [email protected] with a CV and a short description of your qualifications, background and why you are interested in the position.

For more information about the ESI: esi-frankfurt.de

For more information about the research line: http://www.esi-frankfurt.de/research/fries-lab/dr-ayelet-landau/

Dr. Ayelet Landau - ESI Ernst Strüngmann Institute (ESI) for Neuroscience in Cooperation with Max Planck Society Deutschordenstr. 46 60528 Frankfurt am MainGermany