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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:700">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. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:400">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.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:400">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.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:400">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.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:400">Graduate students are unionized and funding includes health insurance.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:700">DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:400">Our faculty and program are actively committed to supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion in our local and
global communities. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400">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.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:700">TRAINING GRANTS</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:400">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. </span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:700">CURRICULUM</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:400">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.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:700">COMMUNITY</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:400">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.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:700">CAREER PATHS</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:400">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.</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:400">Further info and applications instructions are available at:
</span><a href="http://langcog.psychology.uconn.edu"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">langcog.psychology.uconn.edu</span></a></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:400">T</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:700">he Language & Cognition
faculty, and their interests, include: </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><a href="https://psych.uconn.edu/person/gerald-altmann/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Gerry
Altmann</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:400"> Sentence processing and prediction; the mapping between language and vision; event cognition. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><a href="https://christianbrodbeck.net/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Christian
Brodbeck</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:400"> Cognitive neuroscience of language, speech perception, EEG/MEG. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><a href="https://psych.uconn.edu/person/roeland-hancock/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Roeland
Hancock</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:400"> (Associate Director, Brain Imaging Research Center). Neurochemistry and neuromodulation; Neurobiology of sentence processing; Auditory Processing. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><a href="https://psych.uconn.edu/person/fumiko-hoeft/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Fumiko
Hoeft</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:400"> (Director, Brain Imaging Research Center). Brain development; various neuroimaging methods; machine learning; individual differences; literacy acquisition; dyslexia. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><a href="https://psych.uconn.edu/person/james-magnuson/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Jim
Magnuson</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:400"> (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. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><a href="https://psych.uconn.edu/person/emily-myers/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Emily
Myers</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:400"> (Co-Director, NIH training program in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Communication). Speech perception; cognitive neuroscience of speech and language; aphasia; second
language acquisition. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><a href="https://haskinslabs.org/people/kenneth-pugh"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Ken
Pugh</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:400"> (President, Haskins Laboratories). Reading; reading disorders; neurobiology of language. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><a href="https://psych.uconn.edu/person/jay-rueckl/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Jay
Rueckl</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:400"> Neurobiology and psychology of reading; implicit and explicit memory; statistical learning; computational modeling and dynamical systems. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><a href="https://wp.solab.uconn.edu"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Whit Tabor</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:400"> Sentence
processing; theory of grammar; dynamical systems; neural networks; language change; group coordination. </span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><a href="https://slaplab.uconn.edu"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Rachel Theodore</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:400"> (Director,
Neurobiology of Language training program). Speech perception; perceptual learning; phonetic variability; individual differences; cognitive neuroscience; language acquisition.</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><a href="https://psych.uconn.edu/person/eiling-yee/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">Eiling
Yee</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:400"> Semantic memory and the neural representation of concepts; spoken word recognition and situated/embodied language processing. </span></p>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:700">To apply: Contact a potential faculty advisor from the list above, explore</span><a href="https://uconn.edu/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:700"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">UConn</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:700"> and,
by Dec 1, 2021, complete the</span><a href="https://grad.uconn.edu/admissions/apply-to-uconn/"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:700"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">application
procedure</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#3c4043;font-weight:700">.</span></b><br>
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