Friday, March 26, 2010

RA/Lab Manager Positions at NYU in Neurolinguistics

Via Alec Marantz & Liina Pylkkänen:

We have two positions here at NYU between Linguistics and Psychology for next year ideally suited for someone in transition between an undergraduate degree or an MA and a PhD program in linguistics, psychology, or neuroscience. Please distribute the advertisement to students that might be interested, and please don't hesitate to let us know about anyone we might contact directly to persuade to apply.

Thanks,
Liina Pylkkänen & Alec Marantz
Departments of Psychology and Linguistics, NYU


1. Lab Manager/Research Assistant Position

A full-time Lab Manager position is available at the NYU Neurolinguistics Laboratory, with some responsibilities extending to the NYU Abu Dhabi Neuroscience of Language Laboratory, currently under construction. A BA/BS or MA/MS in a cognitive science-related discipline (psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, etc.) or computer science is required. The lab manager will be involved in all stages of the execution and analysis of MEG and EEG experiments on language processing. Previous experience with MEG or some other cognitive neuroscience method is highly preferred. A background in statistics and some programming ability (especially Matlab) are essential.

Preferred start date is July 2010, but this is negotiable. Salary and rank will be commensurate with experience. To apply, please email CV and names of references to Prof. Liina Pylkkänen (liina.pylkkanen@nyu.edu).

Contact Information:

email: liina.pylkkanen@nyu.edu

Tel: (212) 992-8764 or (212) 998-8386

http://www.psych.nyu.edu/pylkkanen/lab/


2. Research Assistant

Full-time NSF-funded research assistant for Cognitive Neuroscience of Language projects at the KIT/NYU MEG Lab. BA/BS in cognitive science-related discipline (psychology, linguistics, etc.) or computer science. Programming and/or statistics experience a plus.

RA would help analyze data from MEG and joint MEG/fMRI experiments and help design and program additional experiments. For 2010-11, research will concentrate on lexical access and morphological decomposition in auditory and visual word perception.

Preferred start date is July 2010, but this is negotiable. Salary and rank will be commensurate with experience. To apply, please email CV and names of references to Prof. Alec Marantz (marantz@nyu.edu).

Contact Information:

email: marantz@nyu.edu

Tel: (212) 998-3593

http://www.psych.nyu.edu/meglab/

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