Cognitive Science hosts Will Gervais from University of Kentucky with: “Moral distrust of atheists, and how it screws up basic theory on the psychology of religion” on 3/23 at 4pm in OAK 109.
For more information about this event, visit our Colloquium Series page.
The ninth annual University of Connecticut Language Fest will be held on Saturday, April 28, from 9AM–4PM in Oak Hall at the Storrs Campus, funded by the Connecticut Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
Language Fest is a University-wide research conference that brings together the full community of language researchers at UConn, including undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty, for a day of sharing results, ideas, methodologies and fostering future interdisciplinary collaborations.
This year’s Fest features talks from Jill Hoover (University of Massachusetts Amherst) who studies developmental language disorders, and Eleonora Rossi (California State Polytechnic University), who studies bilingual language processing. In addition to these talks, two data-blitzes and two poster sessions will showcase language-related research from the UConn community.
Registration: If you plan to attend LangFest, we ask that you please register using this Google Form (it is the same as the call for posters below). Registration is free; we would just like to get an accurate headcount for ordering lunch. (There are also options for reporting dietary restrictions.)
Call for Posters: We invite poster presentations from the UConn community on the subject of language and language-related research. This is a great opportunity for undergraduates, graduate students, postdocs, and faculty to share their research with the UConn language community. You can use a poster from a recent or upcoming conference, or design one for the fest. Completed work, published work, and works-in-progress are all welcome. Undergraduate Honors Projects, or SHARE or SURF-sponsored research are also welcome. Please keep in mind that you will have a diverse audience at the fest, and you should be prepared to explain the ‘big picture’ motivating your work for people from different disciplines. If you would like to present a poster, all you have to do is send us your poster title and author names and affiliations by Friday, March 23 using this link. When you register, you will have the opportunity to indicate your interest in being part of our new LangFest data-blitz, which will showcase student research in a bite-sized format.
If you are interested in doing a video presentation or demoing a piece of software/equipment, please contact Ashley Parker (ashley.parker@uconn.edu).
For questions relating to Language Fest, please contact Ashley Parker (ashley.parker@uconn.edu).
Elaine Auyoung, U Minnesota will give a talk on innovative interdisciplinary approches to fictionality, representation, cognition and theory of mind on March 22.
Literatures, Cultures and Languages, UCHI and the English Department are inviting a brilliant young scholar to speak: Elaine Auyoung, a Harvard Ph.D. now working at U Minnesota. Elaine does groundbreaking work on fiction and cognition. Her affiliations at U Minnesota are with the Center for Cognitive Science and the English Department. Her forthcoming book with Oxford UP is called When Fiction Feels Real: Representational Technique and the Reading Mind. She has also published in numerous other impressive venues. Her CV and link to her profile are included here.
Elaine will give a talk about innovative interdisciplinary approches to fictionality, representation, cognition and theory of mind. The talk will be from 2:00-3:15 pm on Thursday, March 22nd (venue to be determined). We are planning on having a special lunch for graduate students from 11:30-1:00 pm.
For more information please contact:
Jennifer Terni, Ph.D.
Associate Head, Department of Literatures, Cultures and Languages
Associate Professor of French
University of Connecticut
Oak Hall East SSHB Room 207
365 Fairfield Way U-1057
Storrs, CT 06269
Phone: (860) 486-3313
Fax: (860) 486-4392
The Brain Lens lab at UCSF is hiring postdocs and RAs to start immediately.
In addition to the active postings below, they are also most likely hiring several other postdocs and assessment RAs in the next 2-3 months.
Please contact them if generally interested in computational approaches, developmental cognitive neuroscience / neuroimaging in affect or language, ed-neuro, edtech broadly defined.
(There may be opportunities to work on the east coast as well in the CT area.)
The jobs currently advertised are the following:
1. Neuroimaging Postdoctoral Scholar (for a computational neuroimaging or neurolinguist)
2. Neuroscience & Education Research Assistant (to build and run a Brain-Mobile EEG lab in a school)
3. brainLENS Lab Research Assistant (for project management and data analysis)
4. Volunteer Research Assistants
Please direct any questions to brainlens@ucsf.edu.
The Moms ‘n’ Kids Program at Yale University School of Medicine/APT Foundation is now accepting applications for a part-time Research Assistant position starting in February or March 2018 and for part-time interns for the Summer of 2018.
The attached documents contain further details about the positions.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the Project Director, below:
Cindy DeCoste, M.S.
Project Director, Moms ‘n’ Kids Program
APT Foundation
1 Long Wharf Drive, Suite 310
New Haven, CT 06511
Substance Abuse and Family Research Team
Yale University School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry
Phone: 203-285-1475
Fax: 203-497-8064
Formal Analysis and Semantic Interpretation of Pictoral Representations;
How we make and understand drawings (including comics)
March 16 & March 17
What happens when one makes a drawing or sees one? The speakers at this event present new theories of how a drawing is composed and understood in terms of its parts (Cohn) and how one knows what a drawing or picture means (Greenberg), taking into account methods of ‘perspective’ or other representational systems that the artist has used. And what happens when drawings or pictures occur in sequence as in a ‘comics’ or a film?
Click here for additional information on this event.
The Intelligence Community (IC) Postdoctoral Research Program is accepting applications through March 12, 2018.
The Program supports postdocs to conduct research at universities, colleges, and U.S. government laboratories throughout the United States.
Recent Ph.D. graduates or doctoral students who will soon complete their degrees are encouraged to apply. The fellowships offer a very competitive annual stipend and an annual travel allowance for the Postdoc, as well as a stipend and travel allowance to the host institution. We appreciate any assistance in helping us identify competitive candidates for these prestigious fellowships.
Award Details:
· Annual stipends range from $75,000 to $79,000, depending on research location.
· Annual travel budget of up to $6,000
· Appointments for two years, and option to extend for a third year
· Host institutions receive an annual laboratory budget of up to $5,000.
· Research advisors receive a $10,000 stipend and an annual travel budget of up to $2,000.
Postdoc Eligibility: U.S. citizenship required; Ph.D. received within five years of the application deadline
Please visit our website for details, and feel free to share this e-mail with your colleagues.
Thank you for supporting this effort!
Helena Liuag
Project Manager
ORISE
ICpostdoc@orau.org
Thursday, February 8, 2018
6:00 pm-9:00 pm
Dunkin Donuts Park – YG Club
1214 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06106
$15 per person ticket price includes appetizers and a drink.
Refreshments and networking begin at 6 pm, the panel discussion at 6:30 pm.
You can find all of the information here!
Research assistant position currently open in the Aphasia Rehabilitation Research Laboratory at Temple University.
Great for someone who has just graduated from a BA program in SLP or from Psych in December or who has graduated recently and is holding off before going on to grad school.
Start date is in January. Funding for this position is up to five years.
* Please contact Nadine Martin (nmartin@temple.edu) or apply directly here.
Nadine Martin, Ph.D., Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders
Director: Aphasia Rehabilitation Research Laboratory and the
Eleanor M. Saffran Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Mailing address: Room 110 Weiss Hall, 1701 N. 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122
Phone: 215-204-1870 Fax: 215-204-6334
Pathways to Science continues to update programs daily for Undergrads, Grad Students and PostDocs!
– Undergraduate programs and paid summer research: http://pathwaystoscience.org/Undergrads.aspx
– Grad programs: http://pathwaystoscience.org/Grad.aspx
– Postdoc positions: http://pathwaystoscience.org/Postdocs_Portal.aspx
Any questions, please contact:
Liv Detrick, Senior Advisor
ldetrick@ibparticipation.org
The Institute for Broadening Participation (IBP)
www.PathwaysToScience.org