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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">The Perception Action Cognition (PAC) Lab is looking for new graduate students for a starting date of August 2021.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Current research topics include<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">virtual reality<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">affordances<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">postural stability<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">fractality of motor behavior<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">What I am looking for in a graduate student is a dedicated, highly motivated person with excellent quantitative and behavioral statistics
skills. Minimally, I require from the candidate to express the willingness to learn some of the essential computing tools such as MATLAB, R, and others. Our lab works with Oculus Rift VR systems and Pupil Labs eye trackers. We also have a 5-camera VICON motion
capture system, a 3D printer and 3D scanner.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">The successful applicant will receive a full paid assistantship (with a tuition waiver and monthly stipend) that is renewable every year
for 4 years.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">The deadline for applications is March 1, 2021.
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">As part of the application package we require the submission of official university transcripts, TOEFL or IELTS scores (for international
applicants), statement of research interests, and 3 recommendation letters. GRE is not required, due to the COVID-19 crisis.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">Submit an application to the Brain and Behavior PhD program here:<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">For a comprehensive list of research publications, please check out my google scholar profile:<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=c9bakr4AAAAJ&hl=en"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=c9bakr4AAAAJ&hl=en</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black">For recent publications, check out these links:<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dowell, C., Hajnal, A., Pouw, W., & Wagman, J. (2020). Visual and Haptic Perception of Affordances of Feelies.
<i>Perception</i>. 49(9), 905-925. <u><a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006620946532">https://</a><a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006620946532">doi.org/10.1177/0301006620946532</a></u><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Doyon, J. K., Clark, J., Hajnal, A., & Legradi, G. (in press). Effects of surface luminance and texture discontinuities on reachability in virtual reality.<i> Ecological Psychology.
</i><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10407413.2020.1820336">https://</a><a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10407413.2020.1820336">doi.org/10.1080/10407413.2020.1820336</a><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Masoner, H., Hajnal, A., Clark, J., Dowell, C., Surber, T., Funkhouser, A., Doyon, J. K., Legradi, G., Samu. K., & Wagman, J. (2020). Complexity of Postural Sway Affects Affordance
Perception of Reachability in Virtual Reality. <i>Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology</i>.
<u><a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820943757">https://</a><a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820943757">doi.org/10.1177/1747021820943757</a></u><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hajnal, A., Olavarria, C. X., Surber, T., Clark, J. D., & Doyon, J. K. (2020). Comparison of two psychophysical methods across visual and haptic perception of stand-on-ability.
<i>Psychological Research</i>, <i>84</i>, 602–610. <u><a href="https://doi.org/https:/doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-1076-6">https://doi.org/https://</a><a href="https://doi.org/https:/doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-1076-6">doi.org/10.1007/s00426-018-1076-6</a></u><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Doyon, J. K., Hajnal, A., Surber, T., Clark, J. D., & Kelty-Stephen, D. G. (2019). Multifractality of posture modulates multisensory perception of stand-on-ability.
<i>PLoS ONE</i>, <i>14</i>(2), e0212220. <u><a href="https://doi.org/https:/doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212220">https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212220</a></u><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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