Like ECog? Like New York City? Cool new positions with Adeen Flinker at NYUMC
NYU School of Medicine is looking for candidates for two post-doctoral positions in Human Electrocortigoraphy (ECoG) research. Both positions will be under the supervision of Dr. Adeen Flinker, investigating speech processing and cortical network dynamics.The research will be conducted at NYU Comprehensive Epilepsy Center working with a population of surgical patients undergoing treatment for refractory epilepsy. Research paradigms will be conducted in close collaboration with the clinical neurology team. The candidate will conduct neurophysiological research in patients implanted with intracranial electrodes (su...
Source: Talking Brains - September 14, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: David Poeppel Source Type: blogs
Post doc and PhD candidate position at BCBL, San Sebastian, Spain
Post-doctoral 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 (BCBL; San Sebasti án, Spain) offers a 2-year full-time post-doctoral position in cognitive neuroscience, with a possible renewal of 2 years. The research project will be on speech sound perception and reading acquisition. The post-doctoral fellow will have to implement phoneme perception behavioral tasks for young c hildren and adults, and to perform mainly acoustic analyses. Applicants sh...
Source: Talking Brains - September 1, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Tenure-track Assistant Professor with Neuroscience/Neuroimaging Emphasis Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University
Tenure-track Assistant Professor with Neuroscience/Neuroimaging Emphasis Department of Psychological SciencesCollege of Health and Human SciencesPurdue University The Department of Psychological Sciences at Purdue University invites applications for a tenure-track position beginning in the Fall of 2018. The position is at the Assistant Professor rank, although the search committee will consider both newly graduating PhDs as well as current Assistant Professors.We are interested principally in candidates who can contribute neuroscience expertise to more than one of the 6 graduate training areas that make...
Source: Talking Brains - August 31, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
"la Caixa" Foundation postdoctoral fellowships programme
”la Caixa” Foundation is launching a postdoctoral fellowships programme.There are people who, thanks to their hard work and dedication, are destined to achieve great things in life. People like you that place all your talent at the service of others every day and are a great inspiration to society.Now, so that you can reach your full potential and acquire the training that will position you as a leader, the ”la Caixa” Foundation Junior Leader fellowships programme has been created.30 postdoctoral fellowships at Universities and Research Centres of Spain: Junior Leader Incoming: 20 postdoctoral f...
Source: Talking Brains - August 30, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Bilingual Matters conference on multilingualism, UC Riverside
On October 5, 2017, the University of California, Riverside, will launch a new branch of Bilingualism Matters (http://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/event/bilingualism-workshop/). Bilingualism Matters (http://www.bilingualism-matters.ppls.ed.ac.uk/) was founded in 2008 by Professor Antonella Sorace at the University of Edinburgh to bridge the emerging research on bilingualism with the experience of bilingualism in the community. In the almost ten years since its founding, there are now 18 branches, including two in the US. Our new branch at UCR will be the third in the US and the first on the West Coast. ...
Source: Talking Brains - August 25, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Senior Research Associate job, Univ of East Anglia
Senior Research AssociateUniversity of East Anglia - School of Psychology - Faculty of Social SciencesLocation:NorwichSalary:£32,548 to £38,833 per annumHours:Full TimeContract Type:Fixed-Term/ContractPlaced on:21st August 2017Closes:18th September 2017Job Ref:RA1434Senior Research Associate (Fixed Term) (RA1434)The University of East Anglia has some of the most innovative and highly regarded centres for research in the UK. Applications are invited for the post of Senior Research Associate in the School of Psychology. The aim of the project is to understand the influence of early sensory experience on the organisati...
Source: Talking Brains - August 25, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Assistant Professor in Psycholinguistics, Brown University
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Source: Talking Brains - August 17, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Pathways for intelligible speech - setting the record straight
Conclusion: My take is that many investigators are citing Scott et al. appropriately, as Jonathan Peelle suggested. I also see some evidence, however, that the study biases some researchers toward the view that the left anterior STS/STG isthe critical region for speech recognition/lexical processing. Put differently, I still believe that if the original study had found bilateral activity in both anterior and posterior regions, we would as a field be in somewhat of a different place, with fewer groups emphasizing the exclusivity of the anterior pathway (e.g., the Alho et al. quote). In this sense, I see evide...
Source: Talking Brains - August 14, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Guest blog post from Dial & Martin on Dual Stream models -- More discussion
[Note: for backstory on this discussion, seehere]To indicate which comment each response corresponds to, we have copied the first line of the comment.In response to “I agree but we were vague on purpose 17 years ago because we simply didn’t know what the relation was between brain areas and acoustic/linguistic levels of representation” and “These are good points and I both appreciate DM’s frustration with our lack of clarity regarding the level of pro cessing we are talking about and laud their interest in being more precise”:We appreciate the clarification of your stance regarding speech-specificity (or lingui...
Source: Talking Brains - August 14, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Big data or big theory? Gallant and Hickok discuss.
A few months back, Jack Gallant Tweeted some comments that caught my attention. Here is one:The problem is that most MRI exp. design is based on behav. psych, which is a poor framework to begin with.I disagreed on grounds that psychology provides at least one part of a theory that constrains MRI research.Here is another of Jack's Tweets:In theory, theory is great. In practice currently, only data-driven models accurately predict brain activity under naturalistic conditions.To which, I responded:What's your endgame, Jack? Is predicting brain activity all you want to do? Or do u want to understand how brain computes mind?Jac...
Source: Talking Brains - August 2, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
PhD Scholarship/Stipend Opportunities in Psycholinguistics and the Neurobiology of Language (QUT, Australia)
Applications are invited for PhD scholarship/stipend opportunities for projects with the Language, Cognition and Brain Sciences Laboratory (http://www.langcogbrain.net) at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia.Research in the lab makes use of a range of methodologies, including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), electrophysiology (intracranial and scalp-recorded EEG), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), and behavioural paradigms, in both healthy and neurologically disordered populations. Current projects are funded by both the Australian Research Council (ARC) and National Heal...
Source: Talking Brains - August 2, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Early thoughts on the Hickok & Poeppel dual stream model
I came across this email I sent to David Poeppel in July 1998 that sketches some of the basic ideas that congealed into our dual stream model. You can see the starting point was David's prior work on word deafness and my thinking about how conduction aphasia fits in. It's also clear that Nina Dronker's work on the insula was prominent at the time and in fact I had been corresponding with Nina about some of those details. The comment at the end "Nina says grammar is in the anterior STS" was a reference to a presentation she gave on lesion correlates of sentence comprehension deficits that implicated the ATL.&...
Source: Talking Brains - August 1, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
What Science Has to Say about Gender Identity
Today President Trump announced that transgender individuals would not be allowed to serve in the U.S. Military. This followsa previous Trump reversal of guidelines put in place by President Obama regarding how public schools should handle their transgender students ’ use of bathrooms. In discussions of these issues, a distinction is often made between “biological sex” and a psychological state of “gender identity” with the latter weighted as less important, less biological, or less real. Political commentator Ben Shapiro, for example, illustrates the attitude in his response to a transgender rights advocate...
Source: Talking Brains - July 26, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Research faculty and post doc positions at Basque Center on Cognition, Brain, and Language, San Sebastian
RESEARCH FACULTY POSITIONS 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 SENIOR research staff positions in several areas: language acquisition, production, multilingualism, neurodegeneration of language, language and learning disorders, neurocognition of language and advanced methods for cognitive neuroscience.The Center promotes a rich research environment without teaching obligations. It provides access to the most...
Source: Talking Brains - July 11, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
Open Rank Faculty Position -- Communication Sciences & Disorders -- Penn State
The Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders is seeking to fill an open-rank faculty position as Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor. We are a nationally-ranked program that, for more than 80 years, has been preparing highly-qualified professionals for clinical, academic, and research careers addressing prevention and rehabilitation of speech, language, and hearing problems (http://csd.hhd.psu.edu). Our tenured, tenure-track faculty have active programs of research within a culture that encourages engagement with students in our undergraduate, master ’s, and doctoral ...
Source: Talking Brains - July 5, 2017 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs
