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The emergence of subjective feelings during foraging under predation threat
Non-human approach-avoidance conflict tests are classic paradigms to elicit anxiety-like behaviours, and mimick aspects of foraging for food while under threat of predation. We have recently translated this class of paradigms to humans (e. g. Bach et al. 2014, Current Biology; Korn et al. 2017, Biological Psychiatry). However, it is unclear how behaviour in this paradigm relates to subjective feeling.
In the project, you will adapt an existing paradigm to test hypotheses generated from an initial exploratory study. You will test a sample of healthy humans, and analyse the data to understand the antecedents of subject feeling. The project can be adapted to a 12 month UZH or 6 month ETH MSc thesis. Your background is in neuroscience, biology, psychology, or related fields, and you have first experience with programming. An interest to learn data analysis in Matlab and R is required.
In the project, you will adapt an existing paradigm to test hypotheses generated from an initial exploratory study. You will test a sample of healthy humans, and analyse the data to understand the antecedents of subject feeling. The project can be adapted to a 12 month UZH or 6 month ETH MSc thesis. Your background is in neuroscience, biology, psychology, or related fields, and you have first experience with programming. An interest to learn data analysis in Matlab and R is required.
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Supervision
Prof. Dr. Dominik R. Bach
Information and contact
dominik.bach@uzh.ch
www.bachlab.org
Supervision Prof. Dr. Dominik R. Bach Information and contact dominik.bach@uzh.ch www.bachlab.org