[CogSci] 5 PhD positions in Language and Cognition at the University of Connecticut

Tabor, Whitney whitney.tabor at uconn.edu
Fri Oct 15 19:32:14 PDT 2021


The Language and Cognition program in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Connecticut is recruiting diverse and creative scholars to join our PHD program in Fall 2022.


We have a strong track-record of interdisciplinary research spanning from theory and computational modeling to empirical cognitive and neuroscience approaches. Research in our program examines a number of major themes, including neurobiological mechanisms in speech perception, reading, sentence processing, semantic memory and concept formation, event cognition, individual differences, and dynamical systems approaches to language and cognition, in typical and atypical populations.


We have strong collaborative links to researchers outside of UConn as well as our colleagues at UConn including those in Linguistics, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Educational Psychology, Philosophy, Engineering, and Medicine. We are affiliated with UConn’s Cognitive Science program, the CT Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences (IBACS), and Haskins Laboratories.


Facilities include state-of-the-art MRI, high-density EEG, eye-tracking, TMS, and other neuromodulation techniques at UConn’s Brain Imaging Research Center and IBACS, as well as access to computing clusters, lab space, and a dynamic program of colloquia, internal talk series, and interest groups.


Graduate students are unionized and funding includes health insurance.


DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION

Our faculty and program are actively committed to supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion in our local and global communities. We welcome all people to apply, and we particularly seek applicants who have been underserved by current societal norms including members of the BIPOC community, LGBTQIA+ community, people with disabilities, first-generation college students, and individuals from low-income backgrounds.


TRAINING GRANTS

Our faculty are core members of current training grants from the NIH, the NSF, and the Department of Education. These grants provide many opportunities for trainee support, including stipend support and funding for conference travel, professional development, and research. Moreover, these grants provide innovative, interdisciplinary training opportunities that support advanced training including training in science communication and teaching excellence.


CURRICULUM

Our program provides broad training in foundations of language and cognition while simultaneously supporting individualized training goals including expertise in cognitive neuroscience, computational modeling, science communication, and teaching excellence.


COMMUNITY

Our trainees are part of a vibrant, interdisciplinary community, exploring ideas and practices to creatively expand science and also to creatively change the status quo with regard to diversity, equity, and inclusion. There is a strong emphasis on students taking the lead and a strong spirit of community involvement.


CAREER PATHS

Our graduates pursue careers in academia and industry, and are successful in securing employment upon graduation including postdoctoral fellowships, faculty positions, and positions at data analysis and cognitive science oriented companies.


Further info and applications instructions are available at: langcog.psychology.uconn.edu<http://langcog.psychology.uconn.edu>

The Language & Cognition faculty, and their interests, include:

Gerry Altmann<https://psych.uconn.edu/person/gerald-altmann/> Sentence processing and prediction; the mapping between language and vision; event cognition.

Christian Brodbeck<https://christianbrodbeck.net/> Cognitive neuroscience of language, speech perception, EEG/MEG.

Roeland Hancock<https://psych.uconn.edu/person/roeland-hancock/> (Associate Director, Brain Imaging Research Center). Neurochemistry and neuromodulation; Neurobiology of sentence processing; Auditory Processing.

Fumiko Hoeft<https://psych.uconn.edu/person/fumiko-hoeft/> (Director, Brain Imaging Research Center). Brain development; various neuroimaging methods; machine learning; individual differences; literacy acquisition; dyslexia.

Jim Magnuson<https://psych.uconn.edu/person/james-magnuson/> (Director, NSF NRT training program in Science of Learning & Art of Communication). Neurobiology and psychology of language; spoken language understanding; computational modeling; language and learning over the lifespan; science communication.

Emily Myers<https://psych.uconn.edu/person/emily-myers/> (Co-Director, NIH training program in the Cognitive Neuroscience of  Communication). Speech perception; cognitive neuroscience of speech and language; aphasia; second language acquisition.

Ken Pugh<https://haskinslabs.org/people/kenneth-pugh> (President, Haskins Laboratories). Reading; reading disorders; neurobiology of language.

Jay Rueckl<https://psych.uconn.edu/person/jay-rueckl/> Neurobiology and psychology of reading; implicit and explicit memory; statistical learning; computational modeling and dynamical systems.

Whit Tabor<https://wp.solab.uconn.edu> Sentence processing; theory of grammar; dynamical systems; neural networks; language change; group coordination.

Rachel Theodore<https://slaplab.uconn.edu> (Director, Neurobiology of Language training program). Speech perception; perceptual learning; phonetic variability; individual differences; cognitive neuroscience; language acquisition.

Eiling Yee<https://psych.uconn.edu/person/eiling-yee/> Semantic memory and the neural representation of concepts; spoken word recognition and situated/embodied language processing.

To apply: Contact a potential faculty advisor from the list above, explore UConn<https://uconn.edu/> and, by Dec 1, 2021, complete the application procedure<https://grad.uconn.edu/admissions/apply-to-uconn/>.

Whitney Tabor                        (860) 486-4910 (office)
Department of Psychology        (860) 486-2760 (fax)
University of Connecticut          (860) 486-6080 (lab)
Storrs, CT  06269-1020            whitney.tabor at uconn.edu<mailto:whitney.tabor at uconn.edu>
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