Optimal decoding of spatiotemporal patterns in Magnetoencephalography (MEG)

基于意图的行动是我们生活的基本能力。苹果还是橙子，现金还是卡：我们不断地做出有意识的决定来满足我们的欲望，即使这些选择在回报上没有明显的区别。这个博士项目将结合联合收割机在不同的模式（功能和结构MRI，磁共振波谱和脑磁图）与计算建模的大脑成像，以了解人类大脑如何作出故意的决定，以及如何故意的决定之间和个人内部的差异。该项目将侧重于健康的个人。从长远来看，该项目的结果可能会对神经退行性疾病患者决策缺陷的机械理解产生影响。该奖学金与欧洲研究理事会授予的卡迪夫大学脑研究成像中心（CUBRIC）的张家祥博士有关。该项目的学生将接受认知神经科学、脑成像和计算建模方面的多学科培训。我们鼓励来自不同学科的学生（例如，认知神经科学、成像神经科学、心理学、计算机科学、数学或物理学）

Acting based on intention is a fundamental ability to our lives. Apple or orange, cash or card: we constantly make intentional decisions to fulfill our desires, even when the options have no explicit difference in their rewards. This PhD project will combine brain imaging at different modalities (functional and structural MRI, MR spectroscopy and Magnetoencephalography) with computational modelling to understand how the human brain makes intentional decision, and how intentional decisions differ between and within individuals. This project will focus on healthy individuals. In the long run, results from this project may have implications to the mechanistic understanding of decision deficits in patients with neurodegenerative diseases. The studentship links to a European Research Council grant held by Dr Jiaxiang Zhang at the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre (CUBRIC). The student on this project would receive multidisciplinary training in cognitive neuroscience, brain imaging and computational modelling. We encourage students from different disciplines (e.g., cognitive neuroscience, imagingneuroscience, psychology, computer science, mathematics or physics)