Post-doc position available -

We are looking for at a new post-doc here at Oxford. The main criteria is to engage in novel and ambitious research in the area of pain, aversive learning, fear conditioning. 

Apply here:

https://my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form?p_company=10&p_internal_external=E&p_display_in_irish=N&p_process_type=&p_applicant_no=&p_form_profile_detail=&p_display_apply_ind=Y&p_refresh_search=Y&p_recruitment_id=159121

Feel free to contact me with any questions at ben.seymour@ndcn.ox.ac.uk

New Versus Arthritis - MRC Project to start

We are looking forward to start a new project 'The role of Learning in Chronic Pain' this year, generously funded by Versus Arthritis and MRC. The team includes Flavia Mancini (CBL, Cambridge), and Oxford colleagues: Tim Denison (IBME), Anushka Soni (NDOrMS), Amanda Wall (NDCN) and Katja Wiech (NDCN).

Turing institute - safe systems.

Through affiliation to the Turing Institute, we are up a special interest group looking at safe control in autonomous systems. Watch this space...

New review paper on the computational neuroscience of pain

Flavia Mancini and I have just published an introduction to computational models of the pain system in Neuroimage, including perceptual (Bayesian) and motivational (Reinforcement Learning) models and how they fit together. It's open access and you can read it here.

Seymour, B., & Mancini, F. (2020). Hierarchical models of pain: Inference, information-seeking, and adaptive control. NeuroImage, 117212.

New paper: 'Pain Control by Co-adaptive Learning in a Brain-Machine Interface'

Suyi Zhang's latest paper is now published in Current Biology, with all data and code open access as usual. Read our Twitter Summary here.

Zhang, S., Yoshida, W., Mano, H., Yanagisawa, T., Mancini, F., Shibata, K., Kawato, M. and Seymour, B., 2020. Pain Control by Co-adaptive Learning in a Brain-Machine Interface. Current Biology.