Research internship in auditory perception and EEG research
Internship
Status: open
Timeframe: from March 2025 or by arrangement
Research internship in auditory perception and EEG research
Description
As part of ongoing research on auditory perception, we are looking for a motivated individual to complete a research internship at the Institute of Computer Science, Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Group. This internship will focus on conducting experiments with healthy volunteers and collecting EEG data. During the experiments participants will listen to natural sounds. The aim of this study is to understand the neural mechanisms involved in auditory perception and memory.
The main task of the internship is to conduct EEG studies, including participant recruitment and support, data collection, preparation, and follow-up. You will conduct a series of EEG experiments in which participants listen to natural sounds and respond to occasional repeated sounds. You will also have the opportunity to contribute to preprocessing and to annotating both the presented stimuli and the electrophysiological data (e.g., text annotations, artifact detection). Through this work, you will gain practical insight into experimental research and laboratory work.
The research internship is unpaid but can be credited as an internship in Psychology. If interested, the internship can subsequently be extended to include a thesis.
Requirements
Interest in experimental psychological research
Reliable, proactive, and independent work ethic
Willingness to learn about EEG data collection and analysis
Availability for daytime EEG recording sessions
Advantageous (but not necessary): Basic understanding of EEG
What we offer
Insight into modern experimental, auditory, and neurophysiological research
Opportunity to learn about EEG research design and data analysis
Opportunity to deepen and further develop additional skills (e.g. EEG data pre-processing and analysis, programming in Python and/or R), depending on your interests
Close, dynamic mentoring with regular exchange
Departement / Research Group
Institute of Computer Science / Cognitive Computational Neuroscience group
Supervisor
Dr. Magdalena Kachlicka
Language: Englisch
Contact and Application: Dr. Magdalena Kachlicka, Email: magdalena.kachlicka@unibe.ch