Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language

The Master's program aims to provide specialized, comprehensive and rigorous training in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language. The Master's program includes core courses (theoretical and methodological), advanced elective courses, and a research-based project at the end of the program. Students learn from the world-class scientists at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain, and Language.

The Master's program is aimed at university graduates with various degrees who are interested in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language, including previous training in psychology or linguistics, as well as language-oriented training in cognitive science, computer science, or mathematics. The duration of the program is one academic year with 60 ECTS credits. Students will develop research skills through the mentorship of experts and by completing a Master's Research Project at the end of the program. The language of instruction is English. Selecting the appropriate Masters program is the best way to start a successful research career, and in fact, several of our current PhD students began their research careers in our Masters program.

In the six years that we have been running our Masters program, graduates have gone on to PhD programs in places such as New York University, the Donders Center at Radboud University, UC San Diego, the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Michigan State University, the University of Bielefeld, and our own PhD program at BCBL.

For more information about the master's program, visit http://www.bcbl.eu/2014/12/master-in-cognitive-neuroscience-of-language-2/For more information about the BCBL, visit www.bcbl.eu

Application Process

Details of application requirements can be found at: http://www.bcbl.eu/2014/12/master-in-cognitive-neuroscience-of-language-2/

Application Periods

ROUND 1:

- Application sent by mail to mastercnl@bcbl.eu by FEBRUARY 25.

- Notification of the Master's admissions board's decision: MARCH 25.

- Admitted students should confirm their intention to participate in the program by APRIL 15.

- Pre-enrollment must be submitted ONLINE along with the confirmation of participation.

ROUND 2:

- Application sent by mail to mastercnl@bcbl.eu by APRIL 15. Rolling admissions until JUNE 30 the latest. If spots are filled before no more admissions will be accepted.
- Notification of the Master's admissions board's decision: Applications received by APRIL 15 will receive notification by MAY 15.

- Admitted students should confirm their intention to participate within two weeks of being accepted into the program.

- Pre-enrollment must be submitted ONLINE along with the confirmation of participation."

Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute (MRRI)

AVAILABLE: FACULTY-LEVEL RESEARCH POSITION IN MOVEMENT SCIENCE AND REHABILITATION

Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute (MRRI) seeks a scientist to join its expanding program in movement science and motor disability and help build the next generation of translational neuroscience/neurorehabilitation research. Applicants should have a background in movement science and interest in translational research, particularly as applied to neurologic populations. Rank is open; early career investigators with postdoctoral research training and evidence of grant-writing experience, as well as mid-career and senior scientists, are welcome to apply. We offer a competitive start-up package, and ongoing salary support is available.

The institute scientist position at MRRI is a full-time independent research position that is comparable to a university faculty position. The primary expectation is that applicants would develop and direct an independent program of research in the movement science domain of rehabilitation. The research program may fall anywhere along the translational continuum from understanding basic mechanisms of motor performance and recovery to theory-based treatment advancement in rehabilitation.

MRRI is known internationally for its research in neuroscience and neurorehabilitation. Our unique resources include a large research registry of stroke and TBI research volunteers. Office and laboratory space are available in a newly renovated research building, with ready access to relevant patient populations and gait and motion laboratory facilities. MRRI is renowned for its supportive, collegial environment, peer mentoring, and collaborative ties with Philadelphia's outstanding colleges and universities. In particular, we have long-standing collaborations with the neurology and neuroimaging faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, with grant supported projects in structural and functional neuroimaging, TMS, and tDCS. Albert Einstein Healthcare Network is proud to offer our employees unparalleled career opportunities including competitive compensation, attractive benefits plan including medical/dental/vision coverage, generous vacation time, and tuition reimbursement. EOE

Interested candidates should submit a cover letter, CV, and 3 letters of reference to:

Kevin Whelihan, Administrator

MRRI, MossRehab @ Elkins Park

50 Township Line Road

Elkins Park, PA 19027

or whelihak@einstein.edu . Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

The University of Potsdam

• A predictive coding approach for modeling brain activity
• Timing in audiovisual speech integration: A neurophysiological assessment for language disorders
• Clinical applications of multilingualism
• Tracing the algorithm of bilingual language learning
• High-resolution atlas of the human thalamus for neuroimaging studies: application to dyslexia
• Reading development and its disorders
• Optimization in second language pronunciation
• A multimodal neuroimaging investigation of cognitive impairment and behavioural abnormalities in Parkinson's disease: pathophysiology and diagnostic approach
• Development of novel methods for studying the dynamics of functional brain connectivity with concurrent electroencephalography (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
• Advanced spatio-temporal deconvolution algorithms to investigate brain function with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
• Developmental trajectories of the neurobiological mechanisms of human consciousness
• Brain lateralization for language

• 3-years contract 
• Incorporation date: September /October 2017. January 2018 under extraordinary circumstances. 
• 104.400 euros (34.800 euros per year) including salary, employee social security contribution, income taxes and all compulsory employers' contributions, this is equivalent to a gross salary approx 26.000 euro - 28.000 euro per year.
• 10.692 euros (3.564 euros per year) for research costs such as conferences and workshops attendance, short-stays, consumables and intellectual property costs, among others. 
• PhD Award of 7.500 euros will be granted to researchers that submit their thesis within 6 months after the end of the fellowship. 
• Complementary training programme: 

• Technology Transfer and Entrepreneurship workshops by Oxford University Innovation. 
• Professional and Career Development sessions by Vitae. 

• High-quality academic and industrial secondments. 
• Participation in outreach and social events of la Caixa Foundation

• At the time of recruitment (start date of the contract with the Research Centre), candidates must be in the first four years (full-time equivalent research experience) of their research careers and not yet have been awarded a doctoral degree. 
• At the time of recruitment, candidates must comply with one of the following options: 

• To have completed the studies that lead to an official Spanish (or from another country of the European Higher Education Area) university degree awarding 300 ECTS credits, of which at least 60 ECTS credits must correspond to master level. 
• To have completed a degree in a non-Spanish university not adapted to the European Higher Education Area that gives access to doctoral studies. The verification of an equivalent level of studies to the ones mentioned above will be made by the university when the admission procedure starts. 

• Mobility Rule: Candidates must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Spain for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the recruitment date. Short stays such as holidays will not be taken into account. 
• Demonstrable level of English (B2 or higher). 

The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language - BCBL- (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) is offering a postdoctoral position focused on neurocomputational basis of language learning and statistical learning, as part of ERC-funded research project (PI: Ram Frost).

The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary team of researchers studying the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying statistical learning and language learning from behavioural, EEG, MEG, and computational perspectives.  Work undertaken related to this position will contribute to integrating these different perspectives in an explicit neurocomputational framework.  

Candidates with prior training in the computational modeling of psychological and neural processes are encouraged to apply; candidates with prior training in neural network (connectionist / parallel distributed processing) are particularly encouraged to apply.  Applicants able to demonstrate such computational expertise will be considered from the cognitive sciences, broadly construed, including psychology, computational linguistics, computational neuroscience, computer science, machine learning, and cognitive science.  

In addition to strong computational skills, the successful candidate will demonstrate a high level of independence, and a strong publication record.  As part of a broader ERC-funded statistical learning research program, the candidate will also have the opportunity to interact with and (if desired) complete research stays at related research groups at the BCBL, the Hebrew University, and the University of Toronto, so as to better integrate the computational models with related behavioural and neural data.  

Deadline: February 15th, 2017.

To submit your application please follow this link: http://www.bcbl.eu/calls, applying for Computational Postdoc 2016 and upload:

1. A curriculum vitae.
2. A cover letter/statement describing your research interests (4000 characters max).
3. Two reference letters submitted directly by the referees through the outline system.

For more information about the specifics of the position, please contact Ram Frost (ram.frost@mail.huji.ac.il) and for broader information about the BCBL please contact Manuel Carreiras (info@bcbl.eu)

International Morphological Processing Conference

We are pleased to inform you that the 2017 edition of the International Morphological Processing Conference will be held in Trieste, Italy, at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) on June 22-24.
 
The core highlight will be a joint effort by MoProc founders and first organisers, Ram Frost and Jonathan Grainger, on the past and future of our discipline, moderated by Kathy Rastle.
In addition to this, we'll have a number of symposia, covering the entire range of disciplines through which we're trying to tackle the mystery of morphology -- psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, neuropsychology, and computational modelling. These will be delivered by bright stars in the morphology sky such as Jon Andoni Duñabeitia, Na'ama Friedmann, Adam Albright, Jim Blevins and Petar Milin. Moreover, there will be a special methodological talk, delivered by Eric Jan Wagenmakers, dedicated to inference in experimental psychology.
 
And of course, we'll have the usual host of wonderful contributed talks, posters, and social events.
 
Abstracts submission is now open and will be until March the 15th.
 
For all relevant details and full calendar, please refer to the conference website that is now online: http://indico.sissa.it/e/moproc2017.
 
For any question, you can e-mail us at moproc2017@sissa.it
 
We look forward to meeting you in Trieste next summer!
Davide Crepaldi, Simona Amenta, Marco Marelli and the MoProc2017 team

BCBL

The Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language is pleased to announce the third biennial Workshop on Infant Language Development (WILD). The overarching goal of WILD is to bring together scientists with different perspectives and methodological approaches to the study of early language and cognitive development. The meeting will be held between June 15th and 17th, 2017 in Bilbao, Spain.

WILD has been created to highlight recent research on a wide range of topics within monolingual and bilingual development, including speech perception and production; word learning; the development of syntax and morphology; brain mechanisms and first language acquisition; recent advances in infant brain imaging techniques (i.e., EEG, NIRS); atypical language development; language and cognition; early bilingualism; multilingual development; the role of culture in language development; gestures and non-verbal communication in infants and toddlers.

INVITED SPEAKERS

- Janet Werker, The University of British Columbia

- David Lewkowicz, Northeastern University

- Takao Hensch, Harvard University

For further information please visit

http:// http://www.bcbl.eu/events/wild2017/en/

The Organizing Committee

Manuel Carreiras, Arthur Samuel, Monika Molnar and Joana Acha

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER:

Abstract deadline:

February 10th, 2017

Notification of abstract acceptance:

March 10th, 2017

Early registration deadline:

April 23rd, 2017. (Will open soon)

Online registration deadline:

May 7th 2017. (Will open soon)

Conference dates:

June 15-17, 2017.