Post-doctoral position in sensorimotor learning and control of speech production
TheLaboratory for Speech Physiology and Motor Control(PI Ludo Max, Ph.D.) at the University of Washington (Seattle) announces an open post-doctoral position in the areas ofsensorimotor integration and sensorimotor learning for speech production. The position will involve experimental work on both typical speech and stuttering. The lab is located in the University of Washington's Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences and has additional affiliations with the Graduate Program in Neuroscience and the Department of Bioengineering. Seehttp://faculty.washington.edu/ludomax/lab/for more information.The successful candidate wil...
Source: Talking Brains - February 26, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Post-Doc Position in the Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, Sargent College, Boston University
The Guenther Lab at Boston University is seeking applications for a postdoctoral associate in computational neuroscience and neuroimaging of speech in normal and disordered populations. The Guenther Lab is one of the world's preeminent speech, neuroscience laboratories, and the associate will work with a team of experts in neuroimaging, computational modeling, and neural data collection and analysis within the Guenther Lab, the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.Required Skills:PhD ...
Source: Talking Brains - February 23, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Pre- and post-doctoral research positions in MEG research in the NYU Neuroscience of Language Lab (PIs Pylkk änen & Marantz in New York or Abu Dhabi)
The NYU Neuroscience of Language Lab (http://www.psych.nyu.edu/nellab/) has openings for research scientists, which could be realized either as pre-doctoral RAships or as a post-doc. The RAs could be based either in our Abu Dhabi or New York labs. A post-doctoral fellow would be based in Abu Dhabi.A BA/BS, MA/MS or PhD in a cognitive science-related discipline (psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, etc.) or computer science is required. The hired person would ideally have experience with psycho- and neurolinguistic experiments, a background in statistics and some programming ability (especially Py...
Source: Talking Brains - February 19, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Postdoctoral Fellowship: The Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences at Purdue University
Postdoctoral Fellowship:The Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences atPurdue University invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health beginning July 1, 2017. Applicants must be U.S. citizens or have permanent resident status. This will be a two-year appointment. Individuals may seek training in any of the following overarching areas: (1) Foundational; (2) Developmental Disorders; (3) Neurological and Degenerative Disorders. Potential mentors include: Alexander Francis, Stacey Halum, Michael Heinz, Jess...
Source: Talking Brains - February 9, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Position in Basal Ganglia-Cortical Coding of Speech
Two postdoctoral positions are available in the University of Pittsburgh Departments of Neurosurgery and Psychology. The research involves the use of invasive deep brain electrical recording and stimulation in patients with Parkinson ’s disease to study subcortical contributions to speech production. One of the Postdoctoral Associates will work closely with a mentorship team led by Dr. Mark Richardson and the other will work closely with a mentorship team led by Julie Fiez. Support for this position comes from a recently awarded BRAIN Initiative grant (Research Opportunities Using Invasive Neural Recording and Stim...
Source: Talking Brains - February 6, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Revisiting the relation between speech production and speech perception: Further comments on Skipper et al.
Continuing the "discussion" ofSkipper, Devlin, and Lametti's (SDL) recent and in my opinion badly misguided review of the relation between speech perception and production, let's consider this quote on page 84:Miceli, Gainotti, Caltagirone, and Masullo (1980)found a strong relationship between the ability to produce speech and discriminate syllables in 69 fluent and nonfluent aphasics. Specifically, contrasts between groups with and without a phonemic output disorder showed that patients with a disorder were worse at discriminating phonemes, particularly but not limited to those distinguished ...
Source: Talking Brains - November 27, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
How do chinchillas, pigeons, and infants perceive speech? Another Comment on Skipper et al.
This study failed to replicate the effect on accuracy of speech perception found with discrimination or identification tasks but did find an RT effect that held for some sounds and not others. See my detailed comments on this studyhere.But back to SDL and chinchillas. What is their take on these facts? Here's what they say:Though these categorical speech perception studies are often revered because they suggest the reality of speech units like phonemes, they have been criticized. Problems include that the tasks assume the units under study and that within category differences are actually read...
Source: Talking Brains - November 17, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
On the hearing ear and speaking tongue: Comments on Skipper, Devlin & Lametti - 1
Skipper, Devlin, and Lametti (SDL;2017,Brain& Language, 164:77-105) review the evidence regarding the role of the "motor system" in speech perception and conclude that it is ubiquitously involved. More specifically, they conclude:Results are inconsistent with motor and acoustic only models of speech perception and classical and contemporary dual-stream models of the organization of language and the brain. Instead, results are more consistent with complex network models in which multiple speech production related networks and subnetworks dynamically self-organize to constrain interpretation of i...
Source: Talking Brains - November 15, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Assistant or Associate Professor Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders The Pennsylvania State University
Assistant or Associate ProfessorDepartment of Communication Sciences and DisordersCollege of Health and Human Development, The Pennsylvania State UniversityPOSITION Assistant/Associate Professor, tenured or tenure-track, 36-weeksSTARTING DATE Fall 2017 or as negotiatedWe are a nationally-ranked program that, for more than 80 years, has ...
Source: Talking Brains - November 15, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Postdoctoral research position in Vocal Learning in London!
Vocal Communication Laboratory, Royal Holloway, University of LondonESRC-funded postdoctoral research position in Vocal LearningApplication deadline: 11th November 2016Applications are invited for the post of Research Associate to work with Dr Carolyn McGettigan on the project “Vocal Learning in Adulthood: Investigating the mechanisms of vocal imitation and the effects of training and expertise”, which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. The project will investigate the behavioural and neural correlates of the imitation of vocal sounds in control an d expert (e.g. beatboxers, singers) populations, us...
Source: Talking Brains - November 8, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Two ECoG Post Doc positions UT Houston (Tandon Lab) & with an international team including Crone, Hickok, Dehaene
Two postdoctoral research positions are available at the NeuroImaging and Electrophysiology Lab (Tandon Lab) in the Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston. This position is funded by a recently awarded BRAIN Initiative U01 grant for which Dr. Tandon is the PI. The project uses use electro-corticographic (ECoG) recordings on a large cohort (n=80) to evaluate psycho-linguistic models of reading and speech production with the goal being to create network level representation of language. Collaborators on the project with whom the post-doc will work closely are Nathan Crone (Hopkin...
Source: Talking Brains - November 1, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
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Source: Talking Brains - October 29, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: David Poeppel Source Type: blogs
Post doc opportunity: modeling speech production--Hickok and Neftci labs at UC Irvine
POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR AND RESEARCHER POSITIONSPOSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR – Sensorimotor Integration and Sensorimotor Learning for Speech Production (Professors G. Hickok and E. Neftci)A Postdoctoral Scholar position in the areas of sensorimotor integration and sensorimotor learning for speech production is available in the Auditory& Language Neuroscience Lab (PI Greg Hickok; http://sites.uci.edu/alns/) and the Neuromorphic Machine Intelligence Lab (PI Emre Neftci; http://nmi-lab.org/) in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine.Description of Duties: The research involves develo...
Source: Talking Brains - October 27, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Senior Cognitive Scientist, Assoc. or Full Prof., Pomona College
The Department of Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College invites applications for a senior cognitive scientist at the Associate or Full Professor level beginning AY 2017-2018. We seek candidates with broad expertise in cognitive psychology, cognitive science or cognitive neuroscience, who will act as Coordinator of the cognitive science section of the Department. Preferred areas of specialization within cognition include attention, perception, memory, language, reasoning, or decision making. Successful candidates will have a demonstrated commitment to excellence in teaching, a productive record of research, an...
Source: Talking Brains - October 17, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Postdoctoral Fellow Positions in Neuroimaging of Speech Production
NIH-funded postdoctoral positions are available in the neuroimaging laboratory of Dr. Kristina Simonyan in the Department of Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY. The research emphasis of the laboratory is on the understanding of brain mechanisms underlying normal and diseased organization of the central nervous system controlling speech production. We use a variety of neuroimaging methodologies, including fMRI, DTI, high-resolution MRI, iEEG, as well as incorporate clinico-behavioral testing and genetic/genomic approaches in our studies.The specific projects involve understanding brain organiza...
Source: Talking Brains - October 10, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
