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The Language, Cognition and Development Lab of the International School for Advanced Studies - SISSA, Trieste, Italy - is offering one research positions (PostDoc).
The laboratory is directed by Prof. Jacques Mehler and Prof. Marina Nespor.
The research carried out is financed by the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013), ERC grant agreement n° 269502 (PASCAL).
Research Position:
An advanced developmental scientist interested in language acquisition. Besides experience with testing adults, experience with very young infants and/or neonates is required. Neuroimaging experience using NIRS and ERP is desirable.
The position requires the ability to use one or more of the following tools: Psyscope, MatLab, NIRS, TOBii.
Our laboratory has the state of the art systems to study language acquisition. We test neonates in our laboratory located at a large maternity in Udine. In Trieste we test infants from 2months to 18months of age. Infants are tested with behavioral methods using head turning methods, eye-tracking methods, EEG and ERPs.
Application Deadline: 30th September 2013
Send applications to: jacques.mehler@gmail.com & nespor@sissa.it