<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span class="gmail-s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Arial" class="">Please circulate as appropriate. Apologies for cross-posting</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 14px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span class="gmail-s2" style="text-decoration-line: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Arial" class=""><b class="">Deadline Approaching</b>: PhD positions in UConn’s Language & Cognition Program</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span class="gmail-s2" style="text-decoration-line: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Arial" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span class="gmail-s3" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Arial" class="">The <a href="https://langcog.psychology.uconn.edu/" class=""><span class="gmail-s4" style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(16,60,192)">Language & Cognition </span></a>faculty at the University of Connecticut’s <a href="http://psych.uconn.edu/" class=""><span class="gmail-s4" style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(16,60,192)">Department of Psychological Sciences </span></a>are soliciting applications for up to seven new PhD students to begin in the fall of 2020.</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 11px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span class="gmail-s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Arial" class="">The Language & Cognition group is a part of the Perception and Action division, one of 6 highly interactive divisions within the department. We have a strong track-record in interdisciplinary research with work spanning from theory and computational modeling to empirical cognitive and neuroscience research. Our group is a core member of three interdisciplinary graduate training programs: Neurobiology of Language (launched with NSF IGERT funding), Science of Learning & Art of Communication (funded by an NSF NRT training grant), and the Cognitive Neuroscience of Communication (funded by an NIH pre- and postdoctoral training grant). Facilities include state-of-the-art MRI, high-density EEG, tDCS, TMS, eye-tracking and other behavioral techniques, as well as access to computing clusters, lab space, and a dynamic program of colloquia, internal talk series and interest groups. We have strong collaborative links to researchers outside of UConn as well as our colleagues in Linguistics, Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences, Philosophy, Biomedical Engineering, Educational Psychology, and UConn Health and the Medical School. Typically, students are funded through a mix of fellowships and Teaching and Research Assistantships, and our students have an excellent recent track record competing for external and internal fellowships. UConn is home to a vibrant community of faculty and students and expects to see major growth in research activity over the next decade.</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); min-height: 11px;" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span class="gmail-s1" style="font-kerning:none"></span><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><span class="gmail-s1" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-style: normal; font-size: 12px;"><font face="Arial" class="">The Language & Cognition faculty, and their interests, include:</font></span></div><ul class=""><li class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px;" class="">Gerry Altmann (Director, CT Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences). Sentence processing and prediction; the mapping between language and vision; event cognition.</span></font></li><li class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px;" class="">Roeland Hancock (Associate Director, Brain Imaging Research Center). Neurochemistry and neuromodulation; Neurobiology of sentence processing; Auditory Processing.</span></font></li><li class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px;" class="">Fumiko Hoeft (Director, Brain Imaging Research Center). Brain development; neuroimaging; individual differences; literacy acquisition; dyslexia; impact of socio-emotional processing on learning.</span></font></li><li class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px;" class="">Ed Large. Auditory neuroscience; music psychology; dynamical systems.</span></font></li><li class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px;" class="">Jim Magnuson (Director, NSF NRT training program in Science of Learning & Art of Communication). Neurobiology and psychology of language; spoken word recognition; computational modeling; language and learning over the lifespan; science communication.</span></font></li><li class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px;" class="">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.</span></font></li><li class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px;" class="">Ken Pugh (President, Haskins Laboratories). Reading; reading disorder; neurobiology of language.</span></font></li><li class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px;" class="">Jay Rueckl. Neurobiology and psychology of reading; implicit and explicit memory; statistical learning; computational modeling and dynamical systems.</span></font></li><li class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px;" class="">Whit Tabor. Sentence processing; dynamical systems; language change; group coordination.</span></font></li><li class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px;" class="">Eiling Yee. Semantic memory and the neural representation of concepts; spoken word recognition and situated/embodied language processing.</span></font></li></ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(26, 26, 26);" class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 12px;" class=""><span class="gmail-s2" style="text-decoration-line: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;">Next steps</span><span class="gmail-s3" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">: Contact a potential <a href="https://langcog.psychology.uconn.edu/faculty-affiliates-new/" class=""><span class="gmail-s5" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-kerning:none;color:rgb(16,60,192)">advisor</span></a>, explore <a href="http://www.uconn.edu/" class=""><span class="gmail-s5" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-kerning:none;color:rgb(16,60,192)">UConn </span></a>and the <a href="https://grad.uconn.edu/prospective-student/" class=""><span class="gmail-s5" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-kerning:none;color:rgb(16,60,192)">application procedure</span></a> (you can apply directly from our own website <a href="https://langcog.psychology.uconn.edu/apply-to-our-doctoral-program/" class=""><span class="gmail-s4" style="font-kerning:none;color:rgb(16,60,192)">here</span></a>). Application deadline: Priority will be given to applications received by December 1, 2019.</span><span class="gmail-s6" style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"> </span></span></font></div><div class=""><span class="gmail-s6" style="font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class=""></span></div></div>
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