<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">The Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences (CLPS) at Brown University invites qualified applicants to apply to our Ph.D. programs for the 2019-2020 academic year. Located in Providence, Rhode Island -- a vibrant, affordable city close to Boston and New York -- Brown University offers interdisciplinary training in developmental science in state-of-the-art facilities. Successful applicants are guaranteed five years of full tuition, stipend, summer funding, and research and travel support.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">The following faculty are available to train graduate students:</font></p><ul><li style="margin-left:15px"><b>Dima Amso</b> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-indent:0.5in;letter-spacing:0.15pt">studies development of attention and memory in typical and atypical development using combined behavioral, genetic, and neuroimaging measures.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-indent:0.5in"> </span><a href="http://research.clps.brown.edu/dcnl/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-indent:0.5in">http://research.clps.brown.edu/dcnl/</a><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><b>Roman Feiman</b> studies conceptual development, language acquisition, and experimental semantics and pragmatics. His focus is on compositional meaning in language and thought. <a href="https://sites.brown.edu/bltlab/" target="_blank">https://sites.brown.edu/bltlab/</a>  <br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><b>James Morgan</b> investigates cognitive and environmental underpinnings of e<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-indent:0.5in;letter-spacing:0.15pt">arly language acquisition, with particular focus on speech perception and spoken word recognition.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-indent:0.5in">  </span><a href="http://babies.brown.edu/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-indent:0.5in">http://babies.brown.edu/</a><br></li><li style="margin-left:15px"><b>David Sobel</b> examines the development of reasoning and social cognition in both formal and informal learning environments. Topics of interest include causal learning, children’s pretense, selective learning, and development of prosocial behavior. <a href="https://www.brown.edu/research/labs/causality-and-mind/" target="_blank" style="letter-spacing:0.15pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-indent:0.5in">https://www.brown.edu/research/labs/causality-and-mind/</a></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">The CLPS department is home to several cutting-edge methodologies. Resources include:</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Eye tracking and 3D manual reach tracking</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Near infrared spectroscopy</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Smart playroom for automated behavioral tracking</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Mobile infant laboratory for community testing</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;text-indent:0.5in">Strong connections with Providence Children’s Museum for on-site research and dissemination</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">For more information about the CLPS graduate program or to apply go to <a href="http://www.brown.edu/Departments/CLPS/graduate" target="_blank">http://www.brown.edu/Departments/CLPS/graduate</a> or see the attached flyer.</font></span></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Roman Feiman</div><div><br>Assistant Professor<br>Department of Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences<br>Brown University<br>Room 241, 190 Thayer St., Providence, RI</div><div>p: 617-834-7008</div></div></div></div></div></div>