PhD student Action and Language
Nijmegen, (Gelderland), 40 hours per week
Radboud University Nijmegen
Job description
The Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information (NICI) currently has an opening for a PhD student within the project “Action and Language”. This project will focus on the role of actions in word and object recognition. Behavioral and neuroimaging (fMRI) experiments are currently planned, and resources are available to incorporate additional methods such as EEG and eye-tracking. The PhD student will work within a young, interdisciplinary team whose goal it is to investigate action semantics in adults and infants. This team is embedded in an internationally well-established research unit. We offer a unique, multidisciplinary working and learning environment with possibilities to develop expertise in a diversity of research areas and techniques. Short summary of the project The current project investigates overlap between language and action processing on the conceptual, semantic level. Specifically we investigate whether actions highly associated with a given object can be seen as action-semantic features of an object. Additionally we are interested in exploring how automatically action features are accessed when processing information about words and objects.
Requirements
Required education/skills:University Graduate
- university graduate with a master’s degree ( or equivalent) in experimental/cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, or related cognitive neuroscience fields - demonstrated interest in and qualification for scientific research - experience with behavioral experiments and/or experience with functional MRI is a plus - the ability to work in an interdisciplinary team of psychologists, linguists and cognitive neuroscientists in an international context - proficiency in English - excellent writing skills
Job type: Research / Advising
Workfield(s):
- Research trainees, non-tenured lecturers, researchers(Scientific discipline: Behaviour and Society)
Organization
Radboud University Nijmegen
Faculty of Social Sciences
Strategically located in Europe, Radboud University Nijmegen is one of the leading academic communities in the Netherlands. A place with a personal touch, where top-flight education and research take place on a beautiful green campus in modern buildings with state-of-art facilities.
The NICI is affiliated with the Radboud University Nijmegen, Faculty of Social Sciences. The NICI conducts interdisciplinary research and provides training in cognitive psychology and its neighboring disciplines. Psychological and neuro-biological principles of information processing are jointly studied by scientists from various disciplines. The main host is the NICI (affiliation within the section Action, Intention & Motor control), close cooperation is planned with the FC Donders Centre. Additional information about the NICI and the research group can be obtained through the following link http://www.ru.nl/socialewetenschappen/nici/divisions/all_divisions/action_intention_and/
Date of entry: 04/03/2008
Conditions of employment
Estimated maximum salary per month: eur 2500 - 3000
Maximum salary amount in Euro's a month 2558
Employment basis: Temporary for specified period
Duration of the contract:
Maximum hours per week: 40
Additional conditions of employment:
The candidate will be appointed as a PhD student (1.0 FTE) for a period of four years. The candidate’s performance will be evaluated after 18 months. If the evaluation is positive, the contract will be extended by 2½ years. Salary: PhD scale.
Additional Information
Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from:
dr. Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer
Telephone number: 31 (0)24 3612618
E-mail address: s.rueschemeyer@nici.ru.nl
Or prof. dr. H. Bekkering
Telephone number: 31 (0)24 3612632
E-mail address: h.bekkering@nici.ru.nl
Or additional information can be obtained through one of the following links:
Application
You can apply for this job before 01-04-2008 (dd-mm-yyyy) by sending your application to:
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
Faculty of Social Sciences/P en O
Postbus 9104, 6500 HE NIJMEGEN
E-mail: vacancies@socsci.ru.nl
When applying for this job always mention the vacancynumber 24.12.08.
Nijmegen, (Gelderland), 40 hours per week
Radboud University Nijmegen
Job description
The Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information (NICI) currently has an opening for a PhD student within the project “Action and Language”. This project will focus on the role of actions in word and object recognition. Behavioral and neuroimaging (fMRI) experiments are currently planned, and resources are available to incorporate additional methods such as EEG and eye-tracking. The PhD student will work within a young, interdisciplinary team whose goal it is to investigate action semantics in adults and infants. This team is embedded in an internationally well-established research unit. We offer a unique, multidisciplinary working and learning environment with possibilities to develop expertise in a diversity of research areas and techniques. Short summary of the project The current project investigates overlap between language and action processing on the conceptual, semantic level. Specifically we investigate whether actions highly associated with a given object can be seen as action-semantic features of an object. Additionally we are interested in exploring how automatically action features are accessed when processing information about words and objects.
Requirements
Required education/skills:University Graduate
- university graduate with a master’s degree ( or equivalent) in experimental/cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, or related cognitive neuroscience fields - demonstrated interest in and qualification for scientific research - experience with behavioral experiments and/or experience with functional MRI is a plus - the ability to work in an interdisciplinary team of psychologists, linguists and cognitive neuroscientists in an international context - proficiency in English - excellent writing skills
Job type: Research / Advising
Workfield(s):
- Research trainees, non-tenured lecturers, researchers(Scientific discipline: Behaviour and Society)
Organization
Radboud University Nijmegen
Faculty of Social Sciences
Strategically located in Europe, Radboud University Nijmegen is one of the leading academic communities in the Netherlands. A place with a personal touch, where top-flight education and research take place on a beautiful green campus in modern buildings with state-of-art facilities.
The NICI is affiliated with the Radboud University Nijmegen, Faculty of Social Sciences. The NICI conducts interdisciplinary research and provides training in cognitive psychology and its neighboring disciplines. Psychological and neuro-biological principles of information processing are jointly studied by scientists from various disciplines. The main host is the NICI (affiliation within the section Action, Intention & Motor control), close cooperation is planned with the FC Donders Centre. Additional information about the NICI and the research group can be obtained through the following link http://www.ru.nl/socialewetenschappen/nici/divisions/all_divisions/action_intention_and/
Date of entry: 04/03/2008
Conditions of employment
Estimated maximum salary per month: eur 2500 - 3000
Maximum salary amount in Euro's a month 2558
Employment basis: Temporary for specified period
Duration of the contract:
Maximum hours per week: 40
Additional conditions of employment:
The candidate will be appointed as a PhD student (1.0 FTE) for a period of four years. The candidate’s performance will be evaluated after 18 months. If the evaluation is positive, the contract will be extended by 2½ years. Salary: PhD scale.
Additional Information
Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from:
dr. Shirley-Ann Rueschemeyer
Telephone number: 31 (0)24 3612618
E-mail address: s.rueschemeyer@nici.ru.nl
Or prof. dr. H. Bekkering
Telephone number: 31 (0)24 3612632
E-mail address: h.bekkering@nici.ru.nl
Or additional information can be obtained through one of the following links:
- About the organization (http://www.ru.nl)
- About the department (http://www.ru.nl/fsw)
- About the function (http://www.ru.nl/fsw)
- Radboud University Nijmegen (http://www.ru.nl)
Application
You can apply for this job before 01-04-2008 (dd-mm-yyyy) by sending your application to:
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
Faculty of Social Sciences/P en O
Postbus 9104, 6500 HE NIJMEGEN
E-mail: vacancies@socsci.ru.nl
When applying for this job always mention the vacancynumber 24.12.08.
