The Department of Psychology anticipates making one tenure-track appointment in Cognitive Science at the Assistant Professor level. The position calls for candidates who are effective teachers at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Review of app cations will begin on December 15, 1997. Qualified women and minority candidates are especially encouraged to apply. Send CV and three letters of recommendation to Professor S. J. Hanson, Chair, Department of Psychology - Cognitive Search, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 07102.
Salary commensurate with experience and in line with that recommended by federal funding agencies.
Emphasis will be on independent research in visual attention, with special focus on multiple-object indexing and tracking. Familiarity with the use of MAC, SGI and PC platforms for vision research is required. This course will deal with fundamental issues of Cognitive Neuroscience at a level appropriate for advanced undergraduate neuroscience concentrators and for graduate students. This lecture course emphasizes a systems approach to neuroscience and covers several neural systems from among consciousness, sleeping and waking, thinking, selection of action, higher visual and motor processes, sensorimotor integration, learning and memory, attention and emotion. Discussions focus on cerebral cortical mechanisms of behavior and cognition, though subcortical neural mechanisms are discussed.