[CogSci] postdoc at University of Birmingham

[Zlatomira Ilchovska]

     Dear Colleagues  
    
    

    
    
    Could you please help us distribute below information within your labs and networks? Thank you!!
    
    
    

    
    
      We are inviting applications for a 2-year Postdoctoral 
Research Fellow position (start date January 1st 2025) to work at the 
University of Birmingham (funded by the Leverhulme Trust), on the 
benefits of language exposure for language processing in healthy older 
adults.  

    
    
    Healthy older adults experience decline in several aspects of their 
language function. The aim of this project is to examine the mechanisms 
underlying language production decline and to use that knowledge to help
 ameliorate this decline. Theories of language production currently link
 mechanisms for sentence production to implicit learning, driving 
syntactic priming effects. Research demonstrates that key features of 
these effects are persistence over time and generalizability (for useful
 theoretical background, see
     
 
     https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35389705/ ).
 The postdoctoral student will set up experiments to compare the effects
 of different language training protocols in healthy older adults, with 
the aim of increasing the persistence of priming effects, thereby 
increasing diversity of language use in healthy older adults.
    
    
    Informal enquiries to Dr. Katrien Segaert:
     
 
       k.segaert at bham.ac.uk   
    
    
    For more information and to apply:
     
 
     https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DIQ395/research-fellow 
    
    
    Closing date September 15th!
    
    
    

    
    
    Best wishes,
    
    
    

    
    
    Zlati
    
    
    

    
    
     
      
       Zlatomira Ilchovska, PhD (she/her) 
      
      
       Postdoctoral Researcher 
      
      
       Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development (CBCD) 
      
      
       32 Torrington Square 
      
      
       London WC1E 7JL 
      
     
    
   

  

  
 
 
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