Positions at Gallaudet in DC: educational neuroscience

Job OverviewThe exciting interdisciplinary PhD in Educational Neuroscience (PEN) program at Gallaudet University (Washington, D.C.) is seeking applicants with an expertise in Cognitive Neuroscience-Educational Neuroscience at the assistant or associate professor level for two (2) tenure-track positions beginning in fall, 2015. Postion 1:Candidates with a vibrant Cognitive Neuroscience-Educational Neuroscience (specifically, neuroimaging) research program, with a strong focus on children, and who advance understanding of the neural basis of learning in one or more of the following scientific areas (encompassed within the discipline of Educational Neuroscience), will be seriously considered: language/bilingualism, reading/literacy, math/numeracy, science/higher cognition, or social/emotional learning. Position 2:Candidates with a vibrant Cognitive Neuroscience-Educational Neuroscience (specifically, neuroimaging) research program, in adults and/or children, in one or more of the following areas, will be seriously considered: human motion perception and generation, human brain mechanisms for multisensory integration of motionand vision, mirror neurons, the interface of human motion perception/generation and technology (Avatar, Robotics, Motion Capture), the brain’s translation of rapidly-changing motion and visual information into meaningful action, for example, in face perception, language perception and generation (signed or spoken), biological motion or reading.Gallaudet’...
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