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The Cognitive and Brain Sciences (CBS) group in the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno have graduate positions open for Fall 2021, specifically in the labs of Dr. Edward Ester, Dr. Lars Strother, Dr. Marian Berryhill, and Dr. Sarah Haigh. The CBS program has a strong concentration in vision science with 11 faculty working in different areas of vision.

We strongly encourage students from diverse and under-represented backgrounds to apply. Please see additional opportunities through the Graduate School, including the NSF GAIN Scholars program.

Students can apply either to the Cognitive and Brain Sciences Program or the Graduate Program in Integrative Neuroscience.

UNR was recently awarded Carnegie R1 status and has a fast-growing multi-disciplinary Neuroscience program. Resources for neuroimaging are provided through the Center for Integrative Neuroscience (an NIH COBRE award), including 3T fMRI, high-density EEG, fNIRS, and Adaptive Optics. The Center also houses a research core supporting applications of Virtual and Augmented Reality, and a core for Cellular and Molecular Imaging including confocal and 2-photon microscopy. Reno is located next to the Sierra Nevada near Lake Tahoe, and has been rated one of the best small cities in the US for outdoor recreation and overall quality of life.

Read below for information on specific labs that are recruiting graduate students:

Dr. Ester is recruiting a student to work on an NSF-funded project that explores relationships between short-term memory and motor control. The student will have the opportunity to learn multiple techniques used to measure human brain activity (EEG, fMRI, and tDCS) and gain a strong quantitative skill set.

The Strother lab studies visual perception and object recognition using behavioral experiments and fMRI. We are currently investigating neural mechanisms that allow us to perceive and recognize stimuli and support social and linguistic behaviors (e.g. faces, bodies and words). We are seeking Ph.D. students to develop and implement: (a) psychophysical experiments that measure visual performance during various perceptual tasks; and (b) fMRI experiments that rely on multivariate analysis of the data to measure the neural coding of visual object information in the brain.

Dr. Berryhill and Dr. Haigh are seeking two joint students to work on an NIMH-funded project focusing on biomarkers of schizophrenia that are evident in individuals with high schizotypy (subclinical individuals who exhibit schizophrenia-like behaviors). Students will learn and conduct studies using behavioral psychophysics and electroencephalography (EEG), to investigate sensory and working memory.

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Dr. Sarah Haigh

Assistant Professor,

University of Nevada, Reno,

Department of Psychology and Center for Integrative Neuroscience,

1664 N. Virginia Street

Reno, NV 89557-0296

Tel: +1 (775) 682-9885

https://packpages.unr.edu/shaigh/