[Eeglablist] Ph.D position on neural correlates of motivated social interaction

[Estelle Longin]

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Contact adress is : harold.mouras at i-picardie.com


On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Estelle Longin <estellelongin at gmail.com>wrote:

> Ph.D Title: "Neuroimaging study of neural correlates of motivated social
> interaction”
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> Keywords: social neuroscience ; affective neuroscience ; social context of
> affiliation ; empathy ; motivation
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> Summary:
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> Two important areas in cognitive neuroscience have developed exponentially
> for the last 15 years:
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> (i) the affective neuroscience that focuses on the study of brain
> processes involved in the processing of
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> emotional information and psychological processes associated, and (ii)
> social neuroscience that focuses
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> on the study of the role of the brain in social relations and the
> psychological processes involved. These two
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> fields converge on the issue of psychological and neural processing of
> emotional information expressed by congeners.
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> In most social relations, we can consider a motivational component of
> inter-attraction. It is therefore possible
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> to understand the psychological and brain processes involved in various
> working models, made of different
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> functional contexts of inter-attraction. Ongoing work in our laboratory
> includes the study of these mechanisms
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> through two functional contexts: empathy for pain and sexual motivation.
> These studies are mainly focused on
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> the knowledge of generalizable cerebral and psychological processes
> involved in these contexts, as well as
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> the determinants modulating the responses (familiarity, social class etc.).
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> The thesis project aims to understand the neural mechanisms involved by
> conducting experiments using two
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> functional neuroimaging techniques: on the one hand, high-density
> electroencephalography characterized by high
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> temporal resolution, and on the other hand, functional Magnetic Resonance
> Imaging characterized by a high
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> spatial resolution. In a second step, these techniques will be coupled in
> a single experimental phase to access
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> to the indices of correlations between these two types of signals.
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> The central research question of the project will be to determine the
> variation of the neural correlates of both
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> functional contexts of affiliation mentioned above, according to the
> social determinants of the congeners that interact.
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> Required qualification / Experience:
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>      - Interest in social and affective neuroscience
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>      - Experience in functional neuroimaging methodology: design of
> experimental paradigms (E-Prime);
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>      fMRI and / or EEG data collection ; fMRI and / or EEG analysis (SPM ;
> BrainVision Analyzer2 ; Matlab ...)
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> Location : Laboratoire de Neurosciences Fonctionnelles et Pathologies,
> Amiens, France.
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> Contact information: Dr Harold Mouras, hmouras at u-picardie.fr
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