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SNL 2014 will be held at the historic Beurs van
Berlage, in the heart of
Amsterdam. The meeting opens at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, August 27
with Opening Remarks from SNL President Peter Hagoort followed by the
first Keynote address given by Prof. dr. William Levelt.
SNL 2014 will feature four keynote sessions, a
lively debate on the foundations of the
neurobiology of language, and for the first time ever, a
member-initiated symposium.
After the last session on Wednesday, join your
colleagues for a spectacular Canal Tour through the historic and
enchanting canals of Amsterdam. This tour is FREE to all SNL
attendees!
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PDFs of the
Printed Program (both with and without abstracts) are now available
for download from the SNL Home Page.
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Important
Dates
Board of Director Election Closes
August 20, 2014
SNL 2014
August 27-29, 2014
Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Job Postings & Announcements
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Job Postings and Announcements
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Scientific
Meetings & Calls for Papers
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Methods
in language comprehension: New methods for studying comprehension in
Cognitive Science, Behavioral Science and Neuroscience
Applications
are now open for a four-day autumn school whose aim is to expose
students to new methods for analyzing language data collected with
behavioral and neuroscientific methods. This year's instructors
(Emmanuel Keuleers, Falk Huettig, Marcel Bastiaansen, Harald Baayen)
are experts in corpus-based analysis, eye tracking, EEG, and ERP
methods as applied to complex language inputs. Each faculty will
present a theoretical module, conduct small-group advisory discussions,
and supervise hands-on sessions where their analyses methods will be
implemented on sample datasets. The target audience is post-docs, Ph.D
students, and advanced M.A. students involved in studying language
comprehension using behavioral experiments, corpus-based tools,
electrophysiology, fMRI or combinations of these techniques. Courses
will be held in English.
Information about the program, costs, and
application procedures is available on the school's website:http://www.unitn.it/mlc2014.
Application deadline is Sept. 8, 2014.
The University of Trento
Rovereto, Italy, November 13-16, 2014
http://www.unitn.it/mlc2014
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Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Cognitive Psychology
Applicants should be committed to excellence in
undergraduate and graduate education. The Ph.D. degree is required at
time of hire. Salary will be commensurate with education and
experience. Review of completed applications begins October 10, 2014
and continues until the position is filled. Interested candidates
should send a cover letter describing research and teaching interests,
their curriculum vitae, reprints and preprints, and arrange to have
three letters of recommendation provided, all using the following link:
https://aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF00159. Questions about the position should
be directed to Professor Christine Chiarello, Chair, Cognitive Area
Search Committee, at christine.chiarello@ucr.edu
The Riverside campus of the University of California is growing rapidly
and has an excellent psychology department with a strong record of
success in research, teaching and extramural funding. For information
on the Department of Psychology, see our web site at:
www.psych.ucr.edu.
The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for
employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national
origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other
characteristic protected by law.
*Note
Applicants who use Interfolio may utilize a
feature provided by the Interfolio Service to allow Interfolio to
upload their letters directly into AP Recruit without bothering the
letter writer. Applicants can input an Interfolio-generated email
address in place of their letter writer's email address. Interfolio
refers to this as online application deliveries. The following link on
the Interfolio website shows how to set this up:
http://help.interfolio.com/entries/24062742-Uploading-Letters-to-an-Online-application-System
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Postdoctoral
position, Language Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Arizona
A Postdoctoral position is available in the
Language Neuroscience Laboratory (PI: Stephen M. Wilson) at the
University of Arizona. The successful applicant will play a key role on
an NIH-funded project investigating the neural correlates of recovery
from aphasia after acute stroke.
A Ph.D. is required in a relevant field, such as
Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Cognitive Neuroscience, or
Psychology. The ideal candidate will have (1) experience working with
individuals with acquired language impairments, and (2) experience in
conducting neuroimaging studies (e.g. fMRI, DTI, VLSM). However
candidates who are exceptionally strong in one of these two areas, and
show potential to learn in the other, will be considered. Excellent
interpersonal skills are critical, since the position will involve
significant interaction with patients, family members, and health
professionals. A record of research productivity is highly desirable.
Programming skills are desirable but not essential.
Research
in the Language Neuroscience Laboratory is focused on the neural basis
of language function, how language breaks down in patients with
different kinds of aphasia, and the neural changes that support
recovery. Our approach combines multimodal neuroimaging with
quantitative assessments of language function. We have access to two
recently installed and fully equipped Siemens Skyra 3-Tesla scanners
(one for inpatients and one dedicated to research). The UA Medical
Center has a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center that sees
approximately 300 stroke patients per year. The University of Arizona
has a long history of leadership in aphasia research, and the
successful candidate will have opportunities to collaborate with an
interdisciplinary group of researchers from Speech, Language, and
Hearing Sciences, Neurology, and Medical Imaging. For more information
about the lab and our collaborators, please visit
http://neuroling.arizona.edu.
Salary will be commensurate with experience, and
is expected to be consistent with NIH NRSA stipends. The preferred
start date is September 1, 2014, but is flexible. The position is open
until filled.
To apply, please send a letter of interest, a CV,
up to three representative publications, and contact information for
two references, to Stephen M. Wilson smwilson@u.arizona.edu.
Seven PhD Positions in the Dutch Research
Consortium 'Language in Interaction'
We are looking for highly motivated PhD candidates
to enrich a unique consortium of researchers that aims to unravel the
neurocognitive mechanisms of language at multiple levels. The goal is
to understand both the universality and the variability of the human
language faculty from genes to behaviour.
The Netherlands has an outstanding track record in
the language sciences. This research consortium sponsored by a large
grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific research (NWO)
brings together many of the excellent research groups in the
Netherlands with a research programme on the foundations of language.
The research team consists of 43 Principal Investigators. In addition
to the excellence in the domain of language and related relevant fields
of cognition, our consortium provides state-of-the-art research
facilities and a research team with ample experience in the complex
research methods that will be invoked to address the scientific
questions at the highest level of methodological sophistication. These
include methods from genetics, neuroimaging, computational modelling,
and patient-related research. This consortium realizes both quality and
critical mass for studying human language at a scale not easily found
anywhere else.
Currently, the consortium advertises seven PhD
positions for a period of 4 years. Depending on the PhD position
applied for, candidates will be appointed at one of the home
institutions of the consortium. These positions provide the opportunity
for conducting world-class research as a member of an interdisciplinary
team.
Click for more information on the PhD positions
and how to apply:
http://www.languageininteraction.nl/jobs/id-2nd-phd-call-general.html
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Research
Coordinator Positions
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Research
Coordinator/Lab Manager, Language Neuroscience Laboratory, University
of Arizona
A Research Coordinator/Lab Manager position is available
in the Language Neuroscience Laboratory (PI: Stephen M. Wilson) at the
University of Arizona. The successful applicant will work on an
NIH-funded project investigating the neural correlates of recovery from
aphasia after acute stroke, using multimodal neuroimaging and
behavioral evaluations of language function. The position will involve
significant interaction with patients, family members, and health
professionals.
Required
qualifications:
- A
bachelors degree, ideally in a relevant field such as Speech,
Language, and Hearing Sciences, Neuroscience, Psychology,
Linguistics or Physiology (other fields will also be considered)
- Experience
working with individuals with neurological conditions in research
or clinical contexts
- Excellent
interpersonal skills
- Excellent
computer skills
- Strong
organizational skills and attention to detail
- Willingness
to work flexible hours
Desirable
qualifications:
- Previous
experience with neuroimaging data collection and/or analysis
- Strong
academic record
- Programming
skills
Research
in the Language Neuroscience Laboratory is focused on the neural basis
of language function, how language breaks down in patients with
different kinds of aphasia, and the neural changes that support
recovery. The University of Arizona has a long history of leadership in
aphasia research, and the successful candidate will work with an
interdisciplinary group of researchers from Speech, Language, and
Hearing Sciences, Neurology, and Medical Imaging. For more information
about the lab and our collaborators, please visit
http://neuroling.arizona.edu.
Salary
will be commensurate with experience. Full benefits are included. The
preferred start date is September 1, 2014, but is flexible. The
position is open until filled.
To apply, please send a letter of interest, a CV, up to
three representative publications, and contact information for two
references, to Stephen M. Wilsonsmwilson@u.arizona.edu.
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