This Earmarked Scholarship project is aligned with a recently awarded Category 1 research grant. It offers you the opportunity to work with leading researchers and contribute to large projects of national significance.
Supervisor - Associate Professor Stefanie Becker, s.becker@psy.uq.edu.au
This project aims to investigate an important, newly discovered dissociation between early visual selection and perceptual decision-making. Contrary to current theories, attentional and perceptual processes are tuned to different stimulus attributes described in the relational vs. optimal account, which implies that current theories of attention do not describe early attention but later, decisional processes. This project will provide an accurate description of these processes, which promises important theoretical breakthroughs. Work on this project will also significantly advance methods to detect and describe early attentional processes, by identifying error-prone methods of Psychophysics and Neuroscience studies, and proposing remedies.
Preferred educational background
Applications will be judged on a competitive basis taking into account the applicant's previous academic record, publication record, honours and awards, and employment history.
A working knowledge of methods in psychology would be of benefit to someone working on this project.
The applicant will demonstrate academic achievement in the field(s) of psychology and/or neuroscience and the potential for scholastic success.
An interest in cognitive / experimental psychology and neuroscience would be beneficial; as well as an interest in cutting-edge methods.
*The successful candidate must commence by Research Quarter 3, 2023. You should apply at least 3 months prior to the research quarter commencement date. International applicants may need to apply much earlier for visa reasons.