Research Fellow in Infant Cognitive Neuroscience (OPM-MEG and NeuroAI)
Posted 3 hours 46 minutes ago by Trinity College Dublin
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Post SummaryInfants are acquiring the brain representations that form the foundations of cognition. These powerful representations allow the infant to rapidly master many tasks during childhood. The InfantNeuroAI project aims to measure these developing representations, using neuroimaging with fMRI and OPM-MEG, and to model the developmental process using computational models from AI.
The project aims to better understand infant cognition, develop neuroimaging methods to better detect disrupted function following neonatal brain injury, and identify new more energy efficient learning algorithms that could reduce the economic and environmental cost of AI.
With Professor Cusack and the team, the postholder will participate in the full process from setting up awake infant OPM-MEG, experimental design, data acquisition, analysis, computational modelling, presenting work and writing manuscripts.
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