Post-doc at USC: University of South Carolina, Columbia
A post-doctoral position is available in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of South Carolina (Columbia, SC, USA). Prospective hires will join a research team headed by Julius Fridriksson (www.sc.edu/comd/fridriks) as part of the Center for the Study of Aphasia Recovery (C-STAR), which is funded by a P50 grant from the NIH. The primary research focus of the lab is as follows: 1) neural basis of speech/language processing with special emphasis on brain plasticity; 2) neurophysiology of aphasia recovery; and 3) predicting aphasia recovery from neural, biographical and cognitive-linguisti...
Source: Talking Brains - February 21, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
WoRLD: Workshop on Reading, Language and Deafness to be held in San Sebasti án, Spain,
The Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (www.bcbl.eu) is pleased to announce WoRLD: Workshop on Reading, Language and Deafness to be held in San Sebasti án, Spain, from Thursday, October 18th to Saturday, October 20th 2018. Abstract submission is now open until 15th May, 2018. And registration will be availabe from 5th of March onwards.This workshop aims to bring together experts and researchers on the neurocognition of language in deaf individuals and to facilitate the transfer of knowledge between scientists and stakeholders. The topics of the workshop include language processing and development in the c...
Source: Talking Brains - February 21, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Workshop on Predictive Processing (WoPP) San Sebastian (Spain) on June 20-22, 2018.
We are happy to announce the new discussion arena fully centred on predictive processing. The Workshop on Predictive Processing (WoPP) will take place in San Sebastian (Spain) on June 20-22, 2018. The goal of the workshop is to address the role of predictive processing in cognition. Some of the crucial issues in this timely research topic are the extent to which prediction is a fundamental mechanism of brain function, the role of prediction in learning, and, how predictive processing is expressed across distinct cognitive domains. This workshop will gather experts from different fields in cognitive neuroscie...
Source: Talking Brains - February 21, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
PhD and postdoctoral positions - Investigating sensory aspects of human communication
Several researcher positions (Postdocs and PhD students) are available at the Human Communication Research Group, led by Katharina von Kriegstein. The group is currently based at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany (MPI CBS; http://www.cbs.mpg.de/independent-research-groups/human-communication ) and will transfer to the Psychology Faculty of the TU Dresden, Germany, in 2018.The positions are funded by the ERC consolidator grant SENSOCOM. The aim of the SENSOCOM project is to investigate the role of auditory and visual subcortical sensory structures in analysing huma...
Source: Talking Brains - February 7, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
RESEARCH FELLOW POSITION at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language
(San Sebasti án, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu (Center of excellence Severo Ochoa)The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebasti án, Basque Country, Spain) offers research fellow positions in three main broad areas or research: (1)-Language, reading and developmental disorders: How language acquisition, comprehension, production, and reading take place in the human brain. Special attention will be paid to language disorders and the development of computerized tools for their early diagnosis and treatment.(2)-Multilingualism and second language learning: The cognitive and brain mechani...
Source: Talking Brains - February 6, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Lab Coordinator position Temple University
The RISC Lab is seeking a new Lab Coordinator!Lab Coordinator: Research in Spatial CognitionThe Research in Spatial Cognition Laboratory at Temple University is hiring a laboratory coordinator, a position presenting diverse opportunities to participate in cutting-edge cognitive research. The Research in Spatial Cognition Lab, directed by Professors Thomas Shipley and Nora Newcombe, conducts research on spatial learning and cognition.The position has a 1-year minimum, with the possibility of extending to 2 years.Lab Coordinator duties may include:Management of day-to-day lab operationsRecruitment of study participantsStimul...
Source: Talking Brains - February 5, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Pre- and post-doctoral research/programmer positions in MEG research at the Neuroscience of Language Lab in NYU Abu Dhabi (PIs Pylkk änen & Marantz)
NeLLab is hiring!Come work with us in a wonderfully diverse environment in a cosmopolitan setting!Pre- and post-doctoral research/programmer positions in MEG research at the Neuroscience of Language LabinNYU Abu Dhabi (PIsPylkk änen& Marantz)The Neuroscience of Language Lab at NYU Abu Dhabi (http://www.psych.nyu.edu/nellab/) has openings for research scientists, which could be realized either as pre-doctoralRAships or as a post-doc. One position is specifically computational: it could be realized as a pure programmer position or as research position with a significant software development component. All positions are ...
Source: Talking Brains - January 30, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Reply to Erich Jarvis by William Matchin
More from William Matchin -- Reply to Erich Jarvis:At the most recent SfN, Erich Jarvis gave the opening presidential address on the functional neuroanatomy of language, which I commented on and critiqued in my recent blog post for Talking Brains (http://www.talkingbrains.org/2017/11/abstractness-innateness-and-modality.html). Erich has briefly responded to my writing on Twitter and suggested a debate. Few things could give me more pleasure than a productive debate on central issues concerning the nature of human language. The following is a response to his comments in the context of a more in-depth exploration of the issu...
Source: Talking Brains - January 10, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Lesion-Symptom Mapping: A one day online workshop organized by C-STAR
The Center for the Study of Aphasia Recovery (C-STAR; https://cstar.sc.edu/) is organizing a one day online workshop on Lesion-Symptom-Mapping methods, Thursday January 25th, between 10am and 4pm Eastern Daylight Time (US East coast). Please join us online that day, for an exciting line-up of speakers!This focus of this workshop will be on the pressing issues in the methods of Lesion Symptom Mapping, rather than on new neurocognitive findings. To make this workshop as interactive as possible, invited speakers will present for up to 30 minutes, followed by 20 minutes for question time and discussion...
Source: Talking Brains - January 3, 2018 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
BCBL - PhD positions - Programme INPhINIT "LaCaixa"
With the aim of continuing to support the best scientific talent and fostering innovative, high quality research in Spain, ”la Caixa” Foundation is launching a new call for applications for the INPhINIT Fellowships Programme. The application deadline is February 1st, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. (Central European Time - CET). In this second call it will grant 57 3-year fellowships to talented researchers of any nationality to carry out a doctorate at top Spanish research centres accredited with the Severo Ochoa or María de Maeztu distinction and at Carlos III Health Research Institutes, in the ...
Source: Talking Brains - December 5, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Post Doctoral Associate position, Boston University -- great opportunity with Jason Bohland
The Quantitative Neuroscience Laboratory at Boston University (http://neurospeech.org; PI Jason Bohland) is seeking applications for a postdoctoral associate to carry out psychophysical, physiological, and computational studies, which aim to determine how speakers use auditory feedback to guide the sequential production of speech. Full-time funding is currently available for a period of at least two years. There is a possibility of engaging in additional independent or collaborative research including computational and/or brain imaging studies.Requirements:· PhD in neuroscien...
Source: Talking Brains - December 4, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Abstractness, innateness, and modality-independence of language: reflections on SNL & SfN 2017
Guest post by former student, William Matchin: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ It ’s been almost 10 years since the Society for the Neurobiology of Language conference (SNL) began, and it is always one of my favorite events of the year, where I catch up with old friends and see and discuss much of the research that interests me in a compact form. This year’s meeting was no ex ception. The opening night talk about dolphin communication by Diana Reiss was fun and interesting, and the reception at the Baltimore aquarium was spectacular and well organized. I was impressed with the high quality of many...
Source: Talking Brains - November 20, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
PhD position in the O-Lab at Duke University
We are looking for a highly motivated young scientist to join the O-Lab, led by Prof. Tobias Overath, in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. Work in our lab investigates how sounds, from simple sinusoids to complex speech signals, are processed in the brain, using a combination of behavioral and neuroimaging methods (fMRI, EEG, ECoG) to track the underlying neural processes. Current projects investigate the transformation from acoustic to linguistic analysis of temporal speech structure, online measures of statistical learning, as well as optimization of cochlear implant coding strategies.Inte...
Source: Talking Brains - November 13, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: David Poeppel Source Type: blogs
Postdoc, PhD, and Lab manager positions available in the O-Lab at Duke University
We are looking for highly motivated scientists to join theO-Lab, led by Prof. Tobias Overath, in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. Work in our lab investigates how sounds, from simple sinusoids to complex speech signals, are processed in the human brain, using a combination of behavioral (psychoacoustics) and neuroimaging methods (fMRI, EEG, ECoG) to track the underlying neural processes. Current projects investigate the transformation from acoustic to linguistic analysis of temporal speech structure, online measures of statistical learning, as well as optimization of cochlear implant ...
Source: Talking Brains - November 13, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: David Poeppel Source Type: blogs
Carnegie Mellon University: Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences: Psychology Assistant Professor (Tenure-Track) Positions in Psychology
The Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University anticipates making a cluster of tenure-track appointments at the Assistant Professor level over the coming years. We are interested in candidates with a strong grounding in psychological theory, cutting-edge methods, cross-cutting research programs, and high-quality teaching. Our interest is less in specific research areas or methods than in excellence, innovation, and a strong connection to theory-driven research that will facilitate developing a dynamic, successful, and diverse cluster of next-generation scientists. For the present hiring cycle we are partic...
Source: Talking Brains - September 19, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
