Multisensory Integration and Perception

The U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) has research opportunities available in multisensory integration and perception. ARL seeks outstanding Associates to join a team that is advancing empirical understandings and theoretical conceptualizations of human multisensory processing. Experimental approaches focus on developing and utilizing novel technology platforms to examine new multi-sensor combinations and critical issues of multisensory integration in real-world environments. The Associate will pursue well-defined objectives within the broad scope of this program, working within a multidisciplinary team that includes collaborators from domains such as cognitive neuroscience, electrical engineering, computer science, and applied physics or mathematics. The program aims to discover techniques to enable robust, versatile, closed-loop systems that improve performance throughout the sensory-perceptual-motor decision-making cycle by leveraging knowledge of human nervous system capabilities for integrating, interpreting, and utilizing information from the brain, body, behavior, and environment. Modeling efforts focus on cybernetic, systems control theory, or dynamical systems approaches to conceptualizing multisensory integration at the systems level, with an emphasis on nonlinear, adaptive, and/or dynamical models. The Associate will collaborate with team members to design and conduct human subjects experiments, including tests of specific model predictions, integrating ideas and techniques across the foundational knowledge base of human multisensory integration.