Friday, March 26, 2010

Post-docs at NYU/NYU-AD

1. Postdoctoral Position

Cognitive Neuroscientist
Neuroscience of Language Laboratory
Departments of Linguistics and Psychology

NYU & NYU Abu Dhabi

A 1-year, potentially renewable post-doctoral position in the cognitive neuroscience of language is available for the NYU Abu Dhabi Neuroscience of Language Laboratory. The researcher will have had experience with evoked response experiments using either MEG or EEG, but preferably both. The main responsibility of the researcher will be to explore the appropriate ways to utilize participant populations of varied linguistic and educational backgrounds to address questions about linguistic universals and language-specific effects. Working with Arabic and East Asian speakers requires nuanced understanding of the linguistic situation on the ground as well as a search for necessary corpus resources and area experts on the languages and language-particular psycholinguistics. A researcher with cross-linguistic experimental experience would be ideal for the job, and someone from either the Gulf area or India would be especially suited for this project.

To apply, please send a copy of your CV and a brief statement of research interests and goals to Christine Boylan at linguistics.neurolab@nyu.edu.


2. Postdoctoral Position

Computational Researcher
Neuroscience of Language Laboratory
Departments of Linguistics and Psychology

NYU & NYU Abu Dhabi

A 1-year, potentially renewable post-doctoral position in computational research is available for the NYU Abu Dhabi Neuroscience of Language Laboratory.

The successful applicant will have had an extensive background in quantitative analysis, statistics, and/or electrophysiological signal processing. The researcher will be responsible for the laboratory’s data processing pipeline, from experimental design through final data analysis, and will create and justify statistical tools for neurolinguistic experiments with MEG/EEG data. Though the researcher is expected to work with source localization packages such as MNE and BESA, he/she will be most concerned with issues essentially statistical in nature, e.g. the covariance of stimulus variables, the way to treat data across subjects, the problem of multiple comparisons in whole-brain and whole-epoch analyses, etc.

To apply, please send a copy of your CV and a brief statement of research interests and goals to Christine Boylan at linguistics.neurolab@nyu.edu.

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