Two currently opening positions at ATR (https://www.atr.jp/index_e.html) Tsuchiya Group : To apply: email CV and cover letter to naotsugu.tsuchiya@monash.edu
a large-scale online or face-to-face similalrity psychophysics experiment.
a mathematical approach towards establishing qualia structure using category theory (category algebra and states on it)
a mathematical approach towards establishing qualia structure using category-sheaf theory
All positions will require some travels to Melbourne, Australia (Tsuchiya) and Nagahama Bio University (PI Saigo) and AIST (PI Phillips), Japan.
Please check the relevant papers below before sending your application.
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PhD Degree in computer science, data science, psychology, neuroscience, or related field is required.
Relevant skills:
• experience with python and/or Matlab
• experience with category theory, ideally, applied category theory using functional programming
• interest in and ability to work on team-based projects
• enthusiasm and experience in consciousness research, especially the issue of qualia
Online psychophysics postdoc position:
Directly relevant papers
*Kawakita, G., *Zeleznikow-Johnston, A., **Tsuchiya, N., & **Oizumi, M. (2023, January 7). Is my "red" your "red"?: Unsupervised alignment of qualia structures via optimal transport. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/h3pqm *-equal contribution, **-equal contribution
Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston, Yasunori Aizawa, Makiko Yamada, Naotsugu Tsuchiya Stage 2 Accepted preregistered research report (2023). Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Are colour experiences the same across the visual field? DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_01962 https://osf.io/yuq2v
Related projects:
Chuyin, Z., Koh, Z., Gallagher, R., Nishimoto, S., & Tsuchiya, N. (2022) F1000Research. What can we experience and report on a rapidly presented image? Intersubjective measures of specificity of freely reported contents of consciousness. Behavioral data, analysis code, stimuli, experimental code are all available [version 2; peer review: 2 approved]. 11:69 (https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.75364.2)
Qianchen L, Gallagher R, Tsuchiya N (2022) Apr 5, Stage 2 manuscript: “How much can we differentiate at a brief glance: Revealing the truer limit in conscious contents through the Massive Report Paradigm (MRP)" Royal Society Open Science https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210394
Category theory postdoc:
Directly relevant papers
Naotsugu Tsuchiya & Hayato Saigo “A relational approach to consciousness: categories of level and contents of consciousness“ (2021) Neuroscience of Consciousness Volume 2021, Issue 2, 2021, niab034, https://doi.org/10.1093/nc/niab034
Phillips, S. (2019) Sheaving—a Universal Construction for Semantic Compositionality in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2019.0303
Saigo, H. Category Algebras and States on Categories. Symmetry 2021, 13, 1172. https://www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/7/1172
Tsuchiya, N., Saigo, H., & Phillips, S. (2022, Dec 14, accepted by Frontiers in Psychology). An adjunction hypothesis between qualia and reports. Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/q8ndj Volume 13 - 2022 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1053977
Tsuchiya, Naotsugu, Steven Phillips, and Hayato Saigo. “Enriched Category as a Model of Qualia Structure Based on Similarity Judgements.” Consciousness and Cognition 101 (May 1, 2022): 103319. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2022.103319.
For an overview of category theory
Phillips, S. (2022b). What is category theory to cognitive science? Compositional representation and comparison. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1048975. DOI: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1048975/full
森口、土谷、西郷「認知発達研究における構造――圏論からのアプローチ――」(2023, Feb 6 Accepted) 心理学研究 https://psyarxiv.com/9bh3d/