Research internship in auditory perception EEG research
Research internship in auditory perception EEG research
Research internship in auditory perception EEG research
(150-300 hrs, 30-50% workload, negotiable)
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
Start date: Early 2026, by arrangement
If you are interested or have any questions, please contact: Dr Magdalena Kachlicka
Lab website: https://neuro.inf.unibe.ch/