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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;line-height:1.38"><span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-weight:700;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Harvard Lab for Developmental
Studies seeking Research Assistant in Language Development</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-weight:700;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";margin:0px;color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Job Description:<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span><span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";margin:0px;color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Professor
Jesse Snedeker is seeking an energetic and intellectually-engaged research assistant for studies of language comprehension in typically-developing children, children with autism, and adults at the Harvard Lab for Developmental Studies.</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";margin:0px;color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">This is a one-year, full-time, limited-term position with the possibility of renewal. Review of applications
will begin in April for a flexible start date between May 15th and June 15th 2023.</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-weight:700;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";margin:0px;color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Responsibilities include:</span><span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";margin:0px;color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"> Training
and supervising undergraduate assistants, managing a summer internship program, preparing study stimuli, testing children and adult participants for a variety of studies, cleaning/coding data, assisting with data analysis, contacting families, maintaining
equipment, coordinating the use of space, organizing meetings, and assisting with grant management and IRB protocols.</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";margin:0px;color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"> </span><span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-weight:700;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";margin:0px;color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Necessary
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">An undergraduate degree in psychology, linguistics, or cognitive science</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Availability for flexible scheduling, including evenings and weekends, to facilitate data collection</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">A strong interest in the psychology of language, language acquisition, and conceptual development</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Prior experience working with young children</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Comfortable with technical troubleshooting</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Well-organized, attentive to detail, calm under pressure, and comfortable juggling half a dozen things at once</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-weight:700;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";margin:0px;color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Skills that would be put to good use include:</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Experience with eye tracking</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Experience with EEG</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Experience with R, Matlab, and Eprime</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Experience working with children with autism</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">Coursework in semantics, pragmatics and syntax</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="margin:0px">A sense of humor</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";margin:0px;color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Our lab is embedded in larger communities both within Harvard and in the wider Boston area, which offer rich
resources for students interested in developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, and linguistics. Research assistants are encouraged to make use of these resources. Folks who have held this position in the past have gone to graduate programs in psychology,
linguistics, speech and hearing sciences, school psychology, and clinical linguistics.</span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";margin:0px;color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">Potential applicants should email<span class="ContentPasted0"> </span></span><span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-weight:700;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";margin:0px;color:rgb(17, 85, 204);text-decoration:underline">bwaite@fas.harvard.edu</span><span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-weight:700;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";margin:0px;color:rgb(34, 34, 34)"> </span><span class="x_ContentPasted0 ContentPasted0" style="font-weight:400;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";margin:0px;color:rgb(34, 34, 34)">a
letter of interest, a CV/resume, and contact information for three references (email addresses and phone numbers). Please feel free to write with questions as well.</span></p>
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