Dr. Noham Wolpe
Medicine
My new – Psychiatry in Action – is looking for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to lead a funded project looking at how people perceive effort.
Although significant progress has been made in understanding motivation, a critical yet understudied aspect of human motivation is how we perceive and respond to effort: when we feel motivated to do something or ‘up for it’, we can perform the hardest of tasks, but when not, even the most mundane task feels extremely difficult. Changes in how people perceive effort are common across individuals as a result of neuropsychiatric conditions and within individuals as a function of sleep, mood and so forth. What underlies these changes remain largely unclear.
To better understand the determinants of effort perception, the project will use various neurophysiological measures in humans, including EEG, pupillometry and metabolic measures in tasks requiring physical and/or mental effort.
Medicine
- School of Medicine
Funded positions are available from the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Medicine. Students can spend some time in collaborating labs in the UK and the US. Please contact Dr. Wolpe for any informal inquiries with your CV.
Application Deadline: December 31, 2023
The ideal candidate will have:
- Background in neuroscience or a related field
- Programming experience in python and/or Matlab
- Experience in using computational models of behavioral data is a huge plus!
- Experience in acquiring and analyzing neurophysiological measures is a huge plus!
Note: You are invited to apply to the BRAVO PhD program for exceptional students. Admitted students are eligible for generous fellowships. Find out more about the program here.
