Lab Manager/RA position at Arizona State University - Rogalsky lab
A research assistant/lab manager position will soon be available in the
newly formed Communication Neuroimaging and Neuroscience Laboratory (CoNi
Lab) at Arizona State University, directed by Dr. Corianne Rogalsky. This
position is an exciting opportunity to be an integral part of a new
research lab. Our research will be devoted to the cognitive neuroscience
of language and music in the healthy and damaged brain, using techniques
including fMRI, DTI, neuropsychological testing, and high-resolution
lesion mapping.
Responsibilities will include administrative management of the lab,
behavioral and fMRI data collect...
Source: Talking Brains - June 13, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Motor control for speech versus non-speech vocal tract gestures
Here is a pretty cool demo from the 1960s showing the dissociability of motor control during speech versus non-speech tongue movements. Check it out! Thanks to Ron Nutsell for pointing this out. (Source: Talking Brains)
Source: Talking Brains - May 16, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Flying Pigs on National Public Radio: Promoting the wrong theory of language and understanding
NPR aired an interview recently with Benjamin Bergen, UCSD cognitive scientist, discussing an embodied view of word meaning. The basic idea is nothing new by now: we understand words by "simulating" our physical experiences that have become associated with those words. Here's a quote taken from the NPR transcript of the interview:
If someone read a sentence like, "the shortstop threw the ball to first base," parts of the brain dedicated to vision and movement would light up, Bergen says. "The question was, why?" he says. "They're just listening to language. Why would they be preparing to act? Why would they b...
Source: Talking Brains - May 9, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Post Doctoral Position - Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig (Obleser lab)
The Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (MPI CBS) in Leipzig and the Max Planck Research Group “Auditory Cognition” (headed by Jonas Obleser) are now offering a Postdoctoral researcher position, for initially 2 years, preferably starting by October 2013.
Successful candidates will have a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, psychology, or natural sciences. Prior experience with either fMRI or EEG/MEG methods is expected, and an interest in further applying and combining both domains in their research is highly desirable. Candidates with a background and/or interest in advanced fMRI methods are p...
Source: Talking Brains - May 2, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
What is language?
Daniel Everett recently gave a talk on his language-as-a-cultural-tool idea at our UC Irvine Center for Language Science. (Here's a decent review of his recent book.) It was an entertaining talk but misses the point, in my view, regarding what language really is.
Today I'm reading a very nice review paper by Agnes Roby-Brami and colleagues on the relation between language and praxis (suggested by a sage reviewer of a submitted paper of mine). It's worth a look. Very informative and scholarly, but that's not what I want to talk about here. Instead I want to focus on their definition of langua...
Source: Talking Brains - April 16, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
RTs: One-voxel neuroimaging?
Yes! says Brad Buchsbaum in an entertaining and thought provoking post on his flowbrain blog. Check out the post here. (Source: Talking Brains)
Source: Talking Brains - March 22, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Postdoctoral position -- MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
Career Development Fellow (Postdoctoral position)
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
The MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBSU) is an internationally renowned research institute with state-of-the-art cognitive neuroscience facilities, including a research dedicated 3T Siemens Trio MRI scanner and 306-channel Elekta Neuromag MEG system.
Applications are invited for a post-doctoral position to work within a research programme led by Dr Matthew Davis investigating neural systems for perceiving, understanding and learning spoken language. The research will use advanced functional imagin...
Source: Talking Brains - March 18, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Five post-bac research positions at the university of maryland
The Dept of Linguistics at the U of Maryland, is looking to fill up to five full-time positions for post-baccalaureate researchers. Starting date for all positions is Summer/Fall 2013. Salary is competitive, with benefits included. The positions would be ideal for individuals with a BA degree who are interested in gaining significant research experience in a very active lab as preparation for a research career. Applicants must be US or Canadian citizens or permanent residents, and should have completed a BA or BS degree by the time of appointment. The ability to interact comfortably with a wide variety of people (and machi...
Source: Talking Brains - March 14, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Cognitive Neuroscience Research Assistant / Lab Manager Position -- Moss Rehab,
The
Cognition and Action Lab at Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute (MRRI), a
division of the Einstein Healthcare Network, has an opening beginning early summer
of 2013 for a BA/BS- or Master’s-level Research Assistant/Lab Manager. The
position involves assisting on NIH-funded studies of action and object
representations in healthy and stroke populations using behavioral experiments,
state-of-the art neuroimaging, and TMS/tDCS. Applicants should have a strong academic
background in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, or a related field, coursework
in statistics and research methods, excellent organizational and ...
Source: Talking Brains - February 19, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
NYU/NYU-Abu Dhabi: Research assistant and post-doc positions
1. Lab Manager/RA:
Full-time Lab Manager position for the Marantz group at the NYU Neurolinguistics Laboratory, with responsibilities extending to the NYU Abu Dhabi Neuroscience of
Language Laboratory. Initial appointment for one year, with possibility of renewal. BA/BS or MA/MS in a cognitive science-related
discipline (psychology, linguistics, etc.) or computer science is required.
The lab manager will be involved in all stages of execution and analysis of
MEG experiments on language processing, with a concentration on auditory word recognition as modulated by the morphological structure of words. Pr...
Source: Talking Brains - February 4, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: David Poeppel Source Type: blogs
Post-Doctoral Position at Georgetown University Medical Center
The Cognitive Recovery Lab invites applications for a post-doctoral position opening immediately. The lab is directed by Dr. Peter Turkeltaub and operates across Georgetown University Medical Center and MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital. We aim to improve the lives of people with cognitive and language difficulties by expanding our understanding of (1) how the brain performs language and cognitive functions, (2) how these brain systems change in the face of injury or dysfunction, and (3) how we can improve recovery. To achieve these aims we perform a range of human subjects research from basic cognitive neuroscience...
Source: Talking Brains - February 4, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: David Poeppel Source Type: blogs
Post Doctoral and RA positions, Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute
The Language and Aphasia Lab of MRRI (www.mrri.org) invites applications
for expected openings at the postdoctoral and RA levels, starting Summer/Fall
2013. Under the direction of Dr. Myrna
Schwartz, our lab conducts NIH-funded research on language processing in
typical speakers and individuals with aphasia.
We seek to advance understanding of how words are learned and retrieved
in speech, how these processes are affected by stroke, and how word production
deficits can be ameliorated by treatment. MRRI and MossRehab, part of the Einstein Healthcare Network, are
located in Philadelphia and Elkins Park, PA. ...
Source: Talking Brains - January 7, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship in Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience at Georgetown University
The Center for Brain Plasticity and Recovery and the laboratory of Professor Elissa Newport, director, are seeking a postdoctoral fellow capable of taking a leadership role in a new line of research focused on language, cognitive, and motor development after perinatal stroke, as compared with recovery of the same functions in adults after stroke to similar cortical areas. The research involves longitudinal research, observing and testing infants and young children who have suffered a perinatal stroke to the left or right hemisphere; and cross-sectional research, observing and testing older children and young adults w...
Source: Talking Brains - January 7, 2013 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
PhD scholarships and post-doctoral positions for 2013
The Centre of Research Excellence in Child Language (CRE-CL) at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute invites applications for PhD scholarships and post-doctoral positions across a range of cutting edge program areas. This CRE-CL links a number of longitudinal Australian and international studies with the aim of advancing the science of how language develops, what goes wrong and when and how to intervene. It is also unique in its parallel cohorts of children with normal hearing and hearing impairment. It brings together some of the best research, and leading researchers in the world incorporating the following organisat...
Source: Talking Brains - December 19, 2012 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
