2nd Workshop on Psycholinguistic Approaches to Speech Recognition in Adverse Conditions
=== 2nd Workshop on Psycholinguistic Approaches to Speech Recognition in Adverse Conditions ===31 October 2016 – 1 November 2016Nijmegen, the NetherlandsWebsite: http://odettescharenborg.ruhosting.nl/pasrac2016/The second workshop on Psycholinguistic Approaches to Speech Recognition in Adverse Conditions (PASRAC) will be held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands. The workshop is a follow-up on the first workshop organised in Bristol in March 2010.The aim of the two-day meeting is to bring together scientists from different disciplines, including psychology, linguistics, computer science, neuroscience, and cognitive s...
Source: Talking Brains - March 18, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: David Poeppel Source Type: blogs
Post-Doc with Tecumseh Fitch in Vienna Department of Cognitive Biology
A post-doctoral research position is available in the Department of Cognitive Biology at the School of Life Sciences, University of Vienna, in the laboratory of Prof W Tecumseh Fitch. (duration up to five years). The main topic(s) of the position are flexible and will depend upon the skills and interests of the chosen applicant. In general, comparative research in bioacoustics, biomusicology and animal cognition will be favored. For example, ongoing research in the Fitch lab concerns the biology and evolution of language and music and the cognitive capacities underlying pattern perception in speech, music and complex visua...
Source: Talking Brains - February 16, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
What ’s the right hemisphere doing? [Guest Post by William Matchin]
< div class="MsoNormal" > < br / > < /div > < div class="MsoNormal" > Guest post by William Matchin: < /div > < div class="MsoNormal" > < br / > < /div > < div class="MsoNormal" > What's the right hemisphere doing? < /div > < div class="MsoNormal" > < br / > < /div > < div class="MsoNormal" > This is a question that has been bothering me for about two years, emerging from the results of an fMRI experiment that I performed in the twilight of graduate school, and recently butting into my consciousness again after Greg and I finally published the paper. The paper is called < a href="http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3...
Source: Talking Brains - February 15, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
What’s the right hemisphere doing? [Guest Post by William Matchin]
Guest post by William Matchin:What's the right hemisphere doing?This is a question that has been bothering me for about two years, emerging from the results of an fMRI experiment that I performed in the twilight of graduate school, and recently butting into my consciousness again after Greg and I finally published the paper. The paper is called “‘Syntactic perturbation’ activates the right IFG, but not Broca’s area or the ATL”, recently published in Frontiers in Psychology as part of a special topic on “Components of the Language-Ready Brain” edited by Cedric Boeckx and Antonio Benítez-Burraco. The title is ...
Source: Talking Brains - February 15, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
University of Connecticut Job Posting Title: Head Research Technician, Human Electrophysiology
University of Connecticut Job Posting Title: Head Research Technician, Human Electrophysiology (Research Assistant 3 or Research Associate 1)The Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences (IBACS) at the University of Connecticut invites applications for a full-time position of Research Assistant 3/Research Associate 1 (Head Research Technician) to help oversee operations of two shared electrophysiology facilities in Storrs, CT, affiliated with IBACS. The incumbent will work under the supervision of faculty investigators to oversee the care, maintenance, and operation of shared equipment and facilities. Duties will...
Source: Talking Brains - January 28, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
3 postdoctoral positions at NYU Shanghai
We are pleased to announce that three postdoctoral positions in system, computational and cognitive neuroscience will be available at New York University Shanghai http://shanghai.nyu.edu/research/brain. The positions will be in Shanghai and are expected to start March 1, 2016, each for a two-year term, with the possibility to extend. Focuses of cognitive neuroscience position include but not limited to neural bases of speech and language, decision making and memory. Qualified applicants are expected to hold a Ph.D. in Psychology, Neurolinguistics, Neuroscience, and other relevant quantitative disciplines. Successful candid...
Source: Talking Brains - January 6, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: David Poeppel Source Type: blogs
Max Planck Institute: position for Ph.D. candidate in the Neuroscience Department
The Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt am Main is offering a position for a Ph.D. candidate in the Neuroscience Department.The Ph.D. student will be working with Dr. Ed Vessel (Poeppel Department). The Ph.D student will work on projects seeking to understand the neural basis of aesthetic experiences, with a primary focus on understanding visual aesthetic experiences (artwork, architecture, landscapes, etc.) using fMRI. Non-visual domains (e.g. music, literature, or dance) and other methods (EEG, MEG, TMS) may also be explored. The ideal applicant for this position holds an MA, has an excellent recor...
Source: Talking Brains - December 5, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Authors: David Poeppel Source Type: blogs
Call for Papers: Translating Research to Practice in the Language Sciences
Special Issue of Translational Issues in Psychological Science (TPS)Submissions accepted from January 15 - March 1, 2016We are encouraging submissions for consideration in a special issue titled “TranslatingResearch to Practice in the Language Sciences” in the innovative journal titled TranslationalIssues in Psychological Science, co-sponsored by the American Psychological Association(APA) and the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS).“Translating Research to Practice in the Language Sciences” is due out in in March of 2017.For this issue, the Editors will consider manuscripts across a bro...
Source: Talking Brains - November 24, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Multiple Positions in Human Neuroimaging -- UC Riverside
The University of California, Riverside, invites applications for five positions in human neuroimaging at the Assistant & Associate level. Successful candidates will become core faculty in the newly established Human Neuroimaging Center that includes a new Prisma 3T Siemens scanner. We seek applicants with a strong track record of research publications and funding (or funding potential) in basic science and methods of human neuroimaging with one position in each of the following areas: Human Cognitive Neuroscience (speech/language, learning/memory, attention, perceptual systems), Human Developmental Neuroscience ...
Source: Talking Brains - November 22, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Mirror neurons do not have the right response properties to support action understanding
Ten years ago the action understanding interpretation of monkey mirror neurons was the only game in town. There really was no other viable account so even if there were problems with the theory (e.g., 8 in particular), it was the best we had. Now there are alternative explanations. Cecelia Heyes has argued that they reflect learned sensorimotor associations (that don't support understanding), recent writings of Michael Arbib and separately James Kilner have argued that they fundamentally serve a motor control function but which are used fruitfully to augment perceptual function via predictive coding, and ...
Source: Talking Brains - October 29, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
What does embodied simulation add to understanding?
Observing someone else being touched seems to activate one's own somatosensory cortex (e.g., this report). It is has been claimed that this effect contributes to action understanding via embodied simulation. Some view this as an example of the "mirror mechanism" by which we understand others by mirroring their experience in our own bodies (or something like that).First note that this touch-based "mirror mechanism" is quite different from so-called motor mirroring. The motor claim is non-trivial: perceptual understanding is not achieved by perceptual systems alone, but must (or can benefit from) involvement of the mot...
Source: Talking Brains - October 28, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
The Embodied Cognition Challenge
Typical embodied cognition experiments ask whether low-level sensory or motor information affects performance on this task or that. The journals are filled with these kinds of experiments. Some of these effects might even be real. Assuming some of these effects are indeed real, let's now move on to the next questions: How much of the variance in performance does embodied cognition explain? And can embodied models improve on standard models? I've pointed out previously that embodied effects are small at best. Here's an example--a statistically significant crossover interaction--from a rather high-profile T...
Source: Talking Brains - October 12, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Postdoctoral Research Fellow – Neurobiology of Language and Memory, Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
The Language, Cognition and Brain Sciences (LCBS) laboratory at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Postdoctoral Research Fellow to contribute to a range of research projects investigating the neurobiology of language in both healthy and language-impaired individuals. Applicants should have completed a PhD or have submitted a PhD for qualification in psychology, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, speech pathology or an equivalent field, and have proven technical ability with a demonstrated publication track record in diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) and functional mag...
Source: Talking Brains - October 7, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Faculty position: Assistant Professor -- University of Delaware
University of Delaware: College of Arts &Sciences: Linguistics and Cognitive ScienceAssistant Professor in Neurolinguistics orPsycholinguisticsLocation: Newark, DEJob Title: Neurolinguist/psycholinguistJob Rank: Assistant ProfessorSpecialty Areas: Neurolinguistics, PsycholinguisticsDescription:College of Arts & Sciences,Department of Linguistics and Cognitive ScienceTenure-track Faculty Position in Neurolinguistics or PsycholinguisticsThe University of Delaware Department of Linguistics and CognitiveScience invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position inNeurolinguistics or Psycholinguistics at the ra...
Source: Talking Brains - October 4, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Tenure-track Open-rank Position in Psycholinguistics Cognitive Science Department, Johns Hopkins University
The Department of Cognitive Science at Johns Hopkins University seeks to make an open rank, tenure-track faculty appointment in the area of psycholinguistics. The ideal candidate will have an exceptionally strong record of conducting and directing psycholinguistic research that makes substantive contact with linguistic theory, and integrates experimental and computational methods. Research areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the processing of syntax, semantics or pragmatics. Candidates should carry out integrative work in the target area, and have the ability to conduct effective teaching, studen...
Source: Talking Brains - October 4, 2015 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
