Maximum Salary: € 2,621 gross/month
Vacancy number: 24.09.09
Closing date: 25 April 2009
Job description
The Donders Centre for Cognition currently has an opening for a PhD student within a project called ’The processing of morphologically complex words in beginning and proficient second language speakers’. As a PhD student you will investigate how speakers of a second language process words that consist of more than one basic constituent (e.g. ‘under-stand’).
As part of the project, behavioural and neuroimaging experiments are planned with beginning and experienced second language speakers. Additional methods available are eye-tracking and EEG. The proposed language combination to be investigated as a starting point is German as a native and Dutch as a foreign language. Extending the study to other language combinations later on is desirable, depending on the language of your background.
Because the project will focus particularly on the action component of complex verbs, such as ‘stand’ in ‘understand’, the project taps into both motor control and (bilingual) language processing research, and makes use of the most advanced methods in the field (e.g., magnetic resonance imaging, MRI).
Requirements
- university graduate with a Master’s degree in experimental/cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, or related cognitive neuroscience fields;
- demonstrated interest in and qualification for scientific research;
- proficiency in Dutch and German, as well as in English;
- experience with behavioural experiments and/or experience with neuroimaging methods is a plus;
- the ability to work in an interdisciplinary team of psychologists, linguists, and cognitive neuroscientists in an international context;
- excellent writing skills (in English).
Organization
The Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour at Radboud University Nijmegen was founded on September 1, 2008, and comprises the Centre for Cognition, the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging and the Centre for Neuroscience. The project is based at the Centre for Cognition (formerly the Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information, NICI), which plays a central role in Radboud University’s focus on Cognitive Neuroscience. Housed in the Spinoza building, home of the Educational Institute for Psychology and Artificial Intelligence, the Centre cooperates closely with the other centres involved in the new Donders Institute, as well as with affiliated institutes such as the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. The focus on Cognition is exemplified by research on topics such as Perception, Action and Intention; Psycholinguistics; and Learning, Memory and Plasticity. Scientists study these and related topics in an interdisciplinary manner, at different levels of analysis (task, computational, and neural) and using a variety of research methods, including behavioural experiments, conceptual analysis, computational modelling, and neuroimaging techniques.
Website: http://www.ru.nl/fsw
Conditions of employment
Maximum employment: 1,0 fte
Maximum salary per month, based on a fulltime employment: € 2,621 gross/month
Salary scale: PhD Scale.
Duration of the contract: 4 years.
Additional conditions of employment
You will initially be appointed for 18 months, after which your performance will be evaluated. If evaluated positively, the contract will be prolonged by 2.5 years.
Additional Information
dr. Kristin Lemhöfer
Telephone: 31-(0)24-3612630
E-mail: k.lemhofer@donders.ru.nl
dr. Shirley-Ann Rüschemeyer
Telephone: 31-(0)24-3612648
E-mail: s.rueschemeyer@donders.ru.nl
Application
You can apply for the job (mention the vacancy number 24.09.09) before 25 April 2009 by sending your application -preferably by email- to:
Faculty of Social Sciences/P&O
P.O. Box 9104
6500 HE NIJMEGEN
E-mail: vacancies@socsci.ru.nl
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