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The 2016 SNL Annual Meeting will be gathering in just
three and a half months in London,
one of the most exciting cities in the world!
London
has a lot going on in the month of August. Perhaps you'd like to visit
Buckingham Palace which offers a special themed exhibition each year.
The queen celebrated her ninetieth birthday April 21, 2016. During
the public opening of the magnificent State Rooms, during the months
of August and September, the exhibition will be devoted to the Royal
wardrobe.
You
probably already know that London has world-class museums and art
galleries, but when you want to escape the crowds and do something
off the beaten path, check out this TimeOut article for a hidden museum
or garden for something different to see and do.
We hope that you will be joining us this year at the
Annual SNL Meeting in this fabulous city of London.
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SNL 2016 Travel Award Applications Now Being
Accepted
SNL
is now accepting applications for the 2016 Travel Awards. Each Travel
Award provides the recipient with $550 to help cover the cost of
meeting registration and travel. All graduate students and postdocs
are eligible to apply.
The application deadline is May 18, 2016. See Awards
Information for details on the
application process.
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Hotel Rooms Available for SNL
2016
For
the convenience of our meeting attendees, SNL has arranged special
room rates at hotels near the Institute of Education:
For students, SNL recommends the
Royal National Hotel, which is
directly across the street from the meeting venue. The Royal National
Hotel has 1,600 rooms which hold one to four people, with rooms
starting at £88.00 (including breakfast). Reservations can be made
through the hotel's online reservation systems.
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SNL
2016
August 17 - 20, 2016
London, England
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Job Postings & Announcements
If you have a job posting,
general announcement, conference or workshop posting that you would
like to include in the SNL Newsletter,
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Job Postings and
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Post-Doctoral Position at Georgetown University Medical
Center
The Cognitive Recovery Lab, directed
by Dr. Peter Turkeltaub, invites applications for a two-year NIH-funded
post-doctoral position to start in July 2016 in collaboration with Dr.
Catherine Stoodley at American University. The post-doc will be
responsible for collecting and analyzing behavioral and multimodal MRI
data (fMRI, DTI, functional connectivity, VBM, lesion-symptom mapping)
for an investigation of the use of cerebellar tDCS in post-stroke
aphasia. The post-doc will also design additional imaging studies on
normal subjects and individuals with aphasia due to stroke or traumatic
brain injury.
The successful applicant will have a PhD in Cognitive
Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology, or related field;
experience designing fMRI experiments and conducting advanced MRI
analysis; and a track record of research productivity. Preference will
be given for individuals with experience conducting MRI research
involving people with stroke or brain injury.
The Cognitive Recovery Lab 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 through clinical trials. We
use a variety of methods, including behavioral studies, lesion studies
in people with stroke, multimodal MRI, tDCS, tDCS/fMRI, TMS, and
TMS/EEG. Dr. Stoodley is affiliated with the Center for Behavioral
Neuroscience at American University and the Behavior, Cognition, and
Neuroscience program (PhD program). Dr. Stoodley's Developmental
Neuroscience Lab investigates the role of the human cerebellum in
cognition and cognitive development, employing clinical studies,
structural and functional neuroimaging, neuromodulation, and combined
neuromodulation/neuroimaging.
Funded Postdoctoral
Position in Speech Comprehension at the University of Pennsylvania
The Grossman Lab at the University of Pennsylvania is
seeking a motivated and enthusiastic Postdoctoral Research Fellow to
contribute to a range of research projects investigating the
neurobiology of language. Applicants should have completed a PhD
in neuroscience, psychology, or an equivalent field, and have
proven technical ability in image analysis and a demonstrated
publication record. This position is funded in part through a
collaborative grant looking at aging and speech comprehension with
Jonathan Peelle (Washington University in Saint Louis) and Art
Wingfield (Brandeis University). We are interested in the neurobiologic
basis of the interaction of acoustic challenges (such as background
noise or hearing loss) and linguistic factors (such as syntactic
complexity or semantic predictability).
The University of Pennsylvania is a leading center in
human brain imaging, with access to advanced MRI and PET imaging. The
lab studies language and cognitive processing in healthy adults, normal
aging, and neurodegenerative disease using converging evidence from
multiple methods. There may also be opportunity for outstanding
candidates to develop new projects and obtain competitive funding based
on their own research interests, in alignment with the goals and
interests of the lab. Philadelphia is an outstanding city with
extraordinary cultural resources.
Primary responsibilities in this position include the
analysis, interpretation, and writing up of functional and structural
MRI data relating to the neural systems supporting speech processing in
young and older adults. Previous experience in all of these areas is
helpful, and the successful candidate will benefit from demonstrated
independence in conducting analyses and interpreting results. Thus
essential skills are motivation, critical thinking, and a strong record
of scientific communication (papers, posters, and talks). Background
knowledge in speech or aging, fMRI data analysis, experience with
scripting languages (such as Matlab), and familiarity with behavioral
statistical analyses (e.g., in R) are highly desirable. The anticipated
start date is August 2016.
Cognitive Neuroscientist (Program Director)
NSF's Division for Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences is
seeking a Program Director in the
Cognitive Neuroscience program. The Cognitive
Neuroscience Program aims to spur the development of highly novel
theories, techniques and models directed toward enabling basic
scientific understanding of a broad range of issues involving brain,
cognition, and behavior. Research will provide insights into healthy
functions of brain, cognition, and behavior. Additionally, the program
highly values the exploration of new methodologies, utilization of the
latest analytic approaches, and the convergence of cutting edge
techniques for addressing basic questions about human cognition.
NSF Program Directors bear the primary responsibility
for carrying out the agency's overall mission to support innovative and
merit-reviewed activities in basic research and education that
contribute to the nation's technical strength, security and welfare.
Fulfilling this responsibility requires not only knowledge in the
appropriate disciplines but also a commitment to high standards, a
considerable breadth of interest, receptivity to new ideas, a strong
sense of fairness, good judgement, and a high degree of personal
integrity.
The Program Director will have specific responsibilities
that include the following:
- Articulate
a vision for the future of the discipline and allocate program
resources to maintain a balance of support to meet the field's
needs and future development;
- Maintain
an effective merit review system and post-award action process;
- Participate
in one or more cross-cutting activities within the Foundation;
- Work cooperatively
across the Division, Directorate, Foundation and with other
agencies to accomplish the mission of NSF;
- Participate
in interagency meetings, coordinating groups, special task groups,
staff meetings, and site visits;
- Assess
trends and opportunities in the field with assistance of advisory
panels;
- Pursue
affirmative action and EEO goals in selection of reviewers,
panelist and grantees;
- Represent
the program to the scientific community and the public;
- Establish
contacts and maintain active involvement in the program field
through participation in meetings and conferences and by
undertaking other relevant activities;
- Pursue a
personal scholarly research agenda, with results presented at
professional meetings and published in academic journals, as
workload permits.
Applications accepted from US Citizens. Recent changes
in Federal Appropriations Law require Non-Citizens to meet certain
eligibility criteria to be considered. Therefore, Non-Citizens must
certify eligibility by signing and attaching this Citizenship Affidavit to their
application. Non-citizens who do not provide the affidavit at the time
of application will be considered for IPA only.
Application process closes on Monday, May 9th,
2016.
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit - Cambridge
Programme Leader/Programme Leader
Track
Starting salary from £49,145 - (Programme Leader) or
£37,024 - £43,520 (Programme Leader Track)
The MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBSU) is an
internationally renowned research institute of cognitive neuroscience.
Onsite facilities include dedicated MRI and MEG scanners, a hearing
laboratory, and the developmental research centre suitable for
infants through to older children. The CBSU is also a stakeholder in a
clinical research facility and a new 7T ultra high field MRI scanner on
the Addenbrooke's campus in Cambridge. It currently has 14 science
programmes in the four research areas of attention and cognitive
control, hearing and language, memory and perception, and mental
health.
We are seeking to appoint a scientist to direct an
innovative research programme linked with the developmental
research facility that has recently been established at the Centre for
Attention, Learning and Memory (CALM) at the CBSU. The programme will
combine a strong interest in typical and/or atypical cognition during
childhood with one of the major areas of research strength at the CBSU.
Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to, language
and mental health during development. The programme should meet
international criteria for excellence in basic science, and have the
potential for translational benefit. The scientific leader would be
expected to be an independent researcher with an established track
record on research, and to develop collaborative projects with other
Unit programmes.
This appointment may be made at either Programme Leader
(starting salary from £49,145) or Programme Leader Track (salary
£37,024 - £43,520) level. Applications are sought from
scientists in relevant fields with either an outstanding record of
scientific achievement (for a Programme Leader post) or at an earlier
stage in their research career with a strong developing international
reputation (Programme Leader Track post).
Choosing to come to work at the MRC CBSU means that you
will have access to a whole host of benefits from a final salary
pension scheme, 30 days annual leave entitlement, maternity and paternity
leave, flexible working arrangements, childcare vouchers, and
additionally a salary sacrifice cycle scheme, as well as access to
employee/shopping travel discounts. On site car and bicycle
parking is available. We also provide a wide range of training
opportunities to all our staff.
Our success is dependent on our ability to embrace
diversity and draw on the skills, understanding and experience of all
our staff. As holders of an Athena SWAN bronze award we are
committed to equality and diversity and welcome applications from all
sections of the community irrespective of gender, race, ethnic or
national origin, religion or belief, sexual orientation, disability or
age. As users of the "Two Ticks" disability symbol we
guarantee to interview all applicants with disabilities who meet the
minimum essential criteria for the post.
For informal queries please contact:
Closing date: 16th May 2016
Interview date: to be confirmed
This position is subject to
pre-employment screening
The Medical Research Council is an
Equal Opportunities Employer
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS IN TRANSLATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE
AND NEUROREHABILITATION
Three year NIH-funded fellowships are available at the
Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute (MRRI), in collaboration with
the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), for research training in
cognitive and motor neuroscience and neurorehabilitation.
Available mentors conduct patient-oriented research
using approaches that utilize behavioral, computational, imaging,
electrophysiologic, and electrical and pharmacologic neuromodulation
methods. We welcome applications from individuals with a doctorate in
psychology, cognitive science, communication science, kinesiology,
movement science, or human neuroscience, who wish to learn to apply
basic science principles to the study and treatment of behavioral and
brain deficits in adult neurological patients. We also welcome
applications from individuals with clinical rehabilitation backgrounds
seeking to increase their depth in the basic science underpinnings of
assessment and treatment. Applicants must have a track record in
research and an interest in developing an independent research career.
Applicants must be citizens or non-citizen nationals of
the United States or have been lawfully admitted for permanent
residence. Both MRRI and Penn are Equal Opportunity Employers and
welcome and encourages all qualified candidates to apply including, but
not limited to, minorities and individuals with disabilities. A
complete list of available mentors and instructions for application are
available at http://mrri.org/T32.html
Applications should be submitted to Kevin Whelihan,
Research Administrator, ( whelihak@einstein.edu)
and must include:
- a current CV
- a cover letter describing research interests and career goals. Given
the translational focus of the training program, applicants should
indicate a preferred primary mentor and, if possible, one or more
secondary mentors who appear to offer the best fit in balancing basic
and applied aspects of the candidate's interests.
- 2-3 letters of reference
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Conferences, Symposia and Workshops
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Membership in the Academy of Aphasia
Membership in the Academy of Aphasia is open to
individuals who are interested in the relationship between brain and
language, language disorders resulting from brain diseases (progressive
and non-progressive), recovery, and other areas of speech and language
related research.
Academy members, both associate and regular, benefit from reduced
registration rates at the annual meeting. An Academy of Aphasia
membership contributes to a forum to promote scientific inquiry of
language disorders, their neurological substrates, and avenues for
rehabilitation. Membership also helps fund trainees to present their
work in front of an international audience.
There are two membership categories:
1. Regular Membership is open to established and emerging researchers
in brain and language research.
2. Associate Membership is open to those who have not yet met the
eligibility requirements for regular membership. This category is
popular with PhD students or those without an active research agenda
such as clinicians.
For further information on how to apply for membership, please follow
the link:
Genetics & Neurobiology of Language
at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Instructors: Simon Fisher and Kate Watkins
Beyond Language Learning Workshop, Barcelona
29th-30th of September 2016
A more complete understanding of language learning
abilities requires not only studying the specific mechanisms involved
in this complex task, but also taking into account a number of other
cognitive capacities that may have a critical role in how the
linguistic information is processed. A comprehensive approach to this
issue would greatly benefit from the integration of different sources
of evidence. For example, we need to take into account the
developmental trajectory of both cognitive and linguistic abilities, as
well as the development of different brain networks in parallel.
Research across the linguistic and the musical domains would help us to
understand how our brain processes sequential and temporal information.
A comparative perspective, considering which abilities are shared with
other species, which limitations they have and how their brain reacts
to materials with similar characteristics as linguistic structures, is
critical to have a more realistic view of what language learning is.
This workshop intends to bring together researchers coming from
neuroimaging, developmental and comparative fields to offer an enriched
overview beyond language learning.
The Workshop will be held in Barcelona, Spain on the
29th-30th of September 2016. The number of participants will be limited
to 120.
Speakers
David Poeppel (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics)
David Lewkowicz (Northeastern University)
Sonia Kotz (University of Maastricht)
Christopher Petkov (Newcastle University)
Daniele Schön (University of Marseille)
Carel ten Cate (Leiden University)
Jutta Mueller (University of Osnabrueck)
Martijn Baart (Basque Center on Cognition Brain and
Language / Tilburg University)
Krista Byers-Heinlein (Concordia University)
Ansgar Endress (City University London)
Clément François (University of Barcelona)
Benjamin Morillon (McGill University)
Liuba Papeo (Centre national de la recherche scientifique - CNRS)
Pablo Ripollés (University of Barcelona)
Jakke Tamminen (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Important dates:
Poster abstract deadline: 15th of May, 2016.
Notification of abstract acceptance: 15th of June, 2016.
Registration deadline: 30th of June, 2016.
Workshop dates: 29th - 30th of September, 2016.
World Conference on Movement
The purpose of the conference is to share knowledge of
all those whose interests lie in the nature of human movement. The
conference will address issues related to gait, motion, kinesiology,
disorders of movement, movement rehabilitation, motion and balance,
movement and cognition, human factors and ergonomics, as well as
optimized movement in elite athletes, developmental issues of movement
and coordination. Workshops on physiotherapy of movement impairment
will also be provided.
The abstracts of the conference as well as selected
principal papers will be proceedings and will be published in the
journal Functional Neurology, Rehabilitation, and Ergonomics published
by Nova Scientific publishers.
We welcome your participation in this event that
addresses the relationship between movement and cognition and I
personally welcome your enquiries and suggestions. In the meantime,
please check out our website at: www.movementis.net (Our mail: office@movementis.com)
Should you have any questions about the nature and form
of the abstracts or pertaining to the larger papers, please connect
with me at: g.leisman@alumni.manchester.ac.uk
Developmental Perspectives on Language Processing
On their way to becoming expert language users, children
undergo neural maturation which affects the development of their
language skills. Because of this, the processes underlying language
comprehension may vary across development and differ from those in
adults. However, not much is known about the variations in these
processes. The goal of this workshopis therefore to bring together
researchers working on various aspects of language comprehension to
better understand how children process language in real time, and how
different types of information are exploited during development. This
topic is especially timely given increasing evidence that efficient
early language processing skills are critical for learning to
communicate effectively. It also has implications for better
understanding language processing in children with limited
language processing skills, such as those with various types of
language delay, including bilinguals and early L2 learners, children
with hearing loss, and those with specific language impairment
(SLI).
Keynote Speakers
Phaedra Royle (Université de Montréal)
Jesse Snedeker (Harvard University)
Karsten Steinhauer (McGill University)
John Trueswell (University of Pennsylvania)
Please see here for further information and
registration.
Essentials
on sentence-processing ERP studies: Experimental design and data
analysis
Overview
This intensive two-day workshop will provide participants
with the essentials on how to design and analyse sentence-processing
ERP experiments. The workshop will be in the form of morning
lectures, and also afternoon hands-on tutorials. All are welcome to
attend the morning lectures. The hands-on sessions are designed for
participants who have an intermediate level of familiarity with the
fundamental principles of EEG data acquisition and analysis.
For further information and registration see here. Please
note that places in the afternoon hands-on sessions are
limited, so early registration is recommended.
Closing date for
registration for both workshops, 1 May 2016
Sponsors
ARC Laureate Fellowship (Demuth), Macquarie University Centre for
Language Sciences (CLaS) and the Child Language Lab, and the ARC Centre
of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD), hosted by the
Department of Cognitive Science at Macquarie University
Organizers
Katherine Demuth, Carmen Kung, Elaine Schmidt, Nan Xu Rattanasone, Ivan
Yuen, Sithembinkosi Dube
Sensorimotor Speech Processing Symposium, London, 16th
August 2016
Speech communication relies on both sensory and motor systems.
Interactions between these systems during speech production and
perception are under active investigation. The Sensorimotor Speech
Processing Symposium is a forum for scientists interested in this topic
to discuss and present their research.
You are warmly invited to attend this symposium and give a talk on your
research related to sensorimotor speech processing. If you wish to give
a talk you are requested to submit a brief abstract, which will be
reviewed by the scientific programme committee. Abstracts from
scientists at all levels of their career using a wide range of methods
(behavioural, brain imaging and stimulation, computational modeling
etc) are welcome.
The keynote talk will be given by Patti Adank, University College
London.
When:
Tuesday 16th of August 2016, a day before the Society for Neurobiology
of Language conference: http://www.neurolang.org/conference
Where:
Chandler House
2 Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PF
Map: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/chandler-house
Organisers:
Riikka Möttönen and Muriel Panouillères
Communication and Cognition Research Group
Department of Experimental Psychology
University of Oxford
http://www.psy.ox.ac.uk/research/riikka-mottonen
Scientific
Programme Committee:
Patti Adank, University College London
Daniel Lametti, University of Oxford
Riikka Möttönen, University of Oxford
Jeremy Skipper, University College London
Registration:
Please send an email titled "REGISTRATION" to: speech.symposium@gmail.com
There is no registration fee. Registration is now open and closes 1st
of July 2016. Early registration is recommended as the places are
limited.
Abstract submission:
If you wish to give a talk in the symposium, please send your abstract
(200-300 words) to: speech.symposium@gmail.com
Abstract submission is now open and closes 2nd of May 2016.The
programme committee will select talks for the symposium based on the
abstracts.
The programme for the symposium will be published by the 1st of June
2016
Insights from Deafness and Language
Organisers: Prof. Bencie Woll & Dr. Velia Cardin
During infancy, there are discrete periods during which
the brain has an enhanced capacity for
reorganisation in response to environmental inputs: the
'sensitive' periods of brain plasticity.
Traditionally, it has been thought that reorganisation
after a sensitive period is not possible.
However, recent
research has shown that plasticity is a property of both the developing and
adult brain, and that functional recovery after the
close of sensitive periods is possible.
Integrating animal and human models, and insights from
the study of deafness and language, in
this workshop we will discuss mechanisms of brain
plasticity throughout the lifespan, its impact
on perception and cognition, and the current and future
applications for functional adaptation.
Speakers:
Amir Amedi, Torsten Baldeweg, Pascal Barone,
Heidi Baseler, Marina Bedny, Ruth
Campbell,
David Corina, Douglas Hartley, Andrej Kral, Stephen
Lomber, Mairead MacSweeney, Rachel
Mayberry, Marcela Peña, Alvaro Pascual-Leone Jerker
Rönnberg, Mary Rudner & Anu Sharma.
Venue: Wellcome
Collection. 183 Euston Road, London NW1 2BE, UK.
We are pleased to announce the 16th ICPEAL (The
International Conference on the Processing East Asian Languages) will
take place in Dec. 8-10, 2016 in South China Normal University,
Guangzhou, China.
The conference which has been held every two or three
years since 1978. It provides opportunities for researchers to
disseminate new research findings, to exchange new ideas, to develop
new paradigms, and, consequently, to advance the cognitive study of
East Asian languages. The conference will have pre-conference workshop,
keynote addresses, symposiums, and poster sessions.
Please visit the home page and check out the information
that is already available there:http://www.icpeal2016.com/
1. Character and word processing
2. Sentence and discourse processing
3. Concept / knowledge representation and storage
4. Speech perception, prosody and auditory processing
6. Language acquisition, development, and learning
8. Language computational modeling
9. Language-related
cognitive and emotional processing
10. Developmental and acquired language disorders
Prof. Hsuan-Chih Chen (The Chinese University of Hong
Kong)
Prof. Peter Hagoort (Radboud University Nijmegen)
Prof. Phillip Holcomb (San Diego State University and
Tufts University)
Prof. Martin Pickering (The University of Edinburgh)
Important Dates and Deadlines
May 1, 2016 : Deadline for On-line Abstract Submission
May 10, 2016 : Advanced registration opens
June 10, 2016 : Notification of Abstract Acceptance
Sept. 10, 2016 : Deadline for advanced Registration
Please forward this message to
colleagues who might be interested in participating.
We are looking forward to hosting you in Guangzhou at
the 16th ICPEAL.
The 16th ICPEAL Organizing Committee
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