[CogSci] postdoc position studying neural networks at the University of Toronto

[Blair Armstrong]

The Computation and Psycholinguistics Laboratory (CAP Lab) in the 
Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto Scarborough, 
co-directed by Professor Blair Armstrong, invites applications for a 
full-time postdoctoral fellow to study either (a) the computational 
mechanisms underlying reading or (b) ambiguous word comprehension.

For an applicant interested in the computational mechanisms underlying 
reading:

The project focus is on identifying and modeling the mechanisms involved 
in learning new words and the consequences of this newly acquired 
knowledge for representation and learning to read.  Relevant background 
for the project is available in the following article: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0000257

For an applicant interested in the computational mechanisms underlying 
ambiguous word comprehension:

This project focuses on understanding how contextual information 
interacts with ambiguous words to activate a contextually appropriate 
interpretation.  Work on this project could potentially combine a neural 
network model of the process of ambiguous word comprehension with a 
model of how ambiguous word meanings can be extracted from text 
co-occurrence.  Relevant background is available in the following 
articles: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2016.1171366 and 
http://blairarmstrong.net/papers/Beekhuizenetal.18.ProcogSci.VectorAmbiguity.html

Additional details and application instructions are available via the 
following link: 
https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/psych/job-posting/postdoctoral-researcher-computation-and-psycholinguistics-laboratory