{"id":3837,"date":"2012-05-29T00:54:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T00:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=3837"},"modified":"2012-06-29T03:45:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T03:45:58","slug":"phd-scholarships-at-max-planck-institute-for-psycholinguistics-english-psycholinguistics-nijmegen-netherlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/?p=3837","title":{"rendered":"PhD Scholarships at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics: English; Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen, Netherlands)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Two 3-year PhD positions are available in Peter Hagoort’s\u00a0Neurobiology of Language Department at the Max Planck Institute for
\nPsycholinguistics \/ Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and\u00a0Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. The positions offer access to
\nnumerous behavioral and EEG laboratories, as well as eye-tracking,\u00a0MEG, fMRI and TMS facilities. The language research environment in\u00a0Nijmegen is vibrant with the MPI, Centre for Language Studies (CLS)\u00a0and Donders Institute on one campus, thus offering many opportunities\u00a0for collaboration and interdisciplinary training.<\/p>\n

PhD Position 1: ‘Mental simulation during story comprehension: A\u00a0cognitive neuroscience approach’<\/span>
\nDaily Supervisor: Dr. Roel Willems<\/span><\/p>\n

Experiments suggest that people simulate the content of the language\u00a0they hear or read. For instance, when reading about actions, parts of\u00a0the sensori-motor system involved in action production can become\u00a0active. Recent work shows that simulation during language\u00a0understanding does not always occur, and that individuals differ in how\u00a0much and when they simulate (see Willems and Casasanto, 2011,\u00a0Frontiers in Psychology, for overview). The main goal of the project is\u00a0to use methods from cognitive neuroscience (fMRI, EEG, eye tracking)\u00a0to study simulative processes during the understanding of stories\u00a0(literary text). (Look for more project information at\u00a0http:\/\/www.mpi.nl<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0http:\/\/www.ru.nl\/donders\/<\/a>.) The ideal candidate holds a master\u2019s\u00a0degree in a relevant study area; has a passion for research; is\u00a0interested in literature; has experience with programming; has\u00a0experience with doing experimental research.<\/p>\n

PhD Position 2: ‘Monitoring and control in language production’\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Daily Supervisor: Dr. Dan Acheson<\/span><\/p>\n

Language production is one of the most common actions in which\u00a0humans engage and correct performance requires us to not only\u00a0monitor our performance but also exert control when mistakes might\u00a0occur. The systems responsible for monitoring and control remain\u00a0poorly understood as neurophysiological studies of overt language\u00a0production have largely been avoided due to the artifact they induce.\u00a0Recent advances in electrophysiological methodology, however, have\u00a0allowed researchers to remove these artifacts, thus opening the\u00a0opportunity for novel research into overt language production\u00a0processes. (Look for more project information at\u00a0http:\/\/www.mpi.nl<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0http:\/\/www.ru.nl\/donders\/<\/a>.) The ideal candidate holds a master’s\u00a0degree in psycholinguistics, cognitive psychology or cognitive\u00a0neuroscience; is motivated to learn new methodologies; has previous\u00a0experience doing experimental work; has a working knowledge of\u00a0statistics and computational skills.<\/p>\n

Interested individuals should contact Roel Willems\u00a0(r.willems@donders.ru.nl<\/a>) for position 1 and Dan Acheson\u00a0(dan.acheson@mpi.nl<\/a>\u00a0) for position 2. Applicants should send a CV,\u00a0letter of interest and two letters of recommendation to Ina Grevel\u00a0(Ina.Grevel@mpi.nl<\/a>) by June 15 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Two 3-year PhD positions are available in Peter Hagoort’s\u00a0Neurobiology of Language Department at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics \/ Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and\u00a0Behaviour, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. The positions offer access to numerous behavioral and EEG laboratories, as well as eye-tracking,\u00a0MEG, fMRI and TMS facilities. The language research environment in\u00a0Nijmegen is vibrant with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scholarship-bourses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3837"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4199,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3837\/revisions\/4199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africa-and-science.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}