Virtual Reality Developer for research in meditation and neuroscience

Laboratoire de Neuroscience Cognitive, Prof O. Blanke

We are looking for an engineer in Computer Science with specialization in Virtual Reality (VR) for the development of audiovisual immersive scenarios. Planned use in this project is for human neuroscience research on consciousness and meditation.

Since the dawn of meditative practices and across many different forms of meditation, ego-centered and cognition-based definitions of the self have been criticized by contemplative traditions. Moreover, it has been argued that such a focus on an ego-centered/cognitive self may be at the root of much suffering in society. Instead, meditation practice often encourages practitioners to engage with a different self: a bodily and non-cognitive self, accessed by deemphasizing and disengaging from the cognitive self, and by engaging with the moment-to-moment fluctuations of one’s bodily self (minimal phenomenal selfhood, MPS).

You will join a team working on the neuroscientific investigation of the bodily-self and MPS in meditation, developing new technology for testing groups of non-meditators, meditation novices, and meditation experts. A recently developed platform integrating virtual reality (VR), automatized movement and bodily stimulations, real-time tracking and sensing technologies will be used and further developed for the experimental study of the role of MPS in meditation.

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https://recruiting.epfl.ch/Vacancies/2352/Description/2