Kai Hwang 黃鎧

Ever since I was a little girl, I knew that I wanted to answer 275 emails per day and argue with administrators. That’s why I chose a career in academia.

I am looking to hire 2-3 post-docs over the course of the next few months to work on questions related to cognitive control in humans, broadly construed. EEG, TMS, DBS, sEEG, fMRI or related methodological experience preferred.
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Lab website: wessellab.org

Frontoparietal Hubs Leverage Probabilistic Representations and Integrated Uncertainty to Guide Cognitive Flexibility Adaptive behavior requires integrating information from multiple sources. These sources can originate from distinct channels, such as internally maintained latent cognitive representations or external...

New paper from Steph. Watch out, she has many more coming.
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Our open-area senior faculty position is live. If you're interested, apply! If you know someone, let them know. Substantial startup and endowed position are part of the package. Learn more about our great department here: psychology.uiowa.edu. Come join us!

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The ad for the tenure-track Clinical Science position is live. Please spread it around!
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Heads up! We are doing two searches this year—for an assistant prof in Clinical Science, and an associate/full prof in any domain of psychology. Want to learn more? Contact the dept chair, Mark Blumberg, at mark-blumberg@uiowa.edu.
Ads will be posted soon on our homepage: psychology.uiowa.edu

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The thalamus encodes and updates context representations during hierarchical cognitive control The cortico-striatal-thalamic circuit is involved in updating cortical task representations, but the role of the thalamus in the context of cognitive flexibility is not well known. This study shows th...

Happy New Year everyone! New paper from Xitong and our lab.
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If you're a native speaker of English, you might not have experienced any language barriers in your scientific career, but their negative impacts on early-career scientists nonfluent in English are big, as summarized in the figure below created by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social and colleagues. (1/10)

The Dept of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Iowa is searching for an assistant prof in computational psych/neuroscience, a full prof in any area, and two lecturers. Follow the link for details.
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