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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Postdoctoral
Research position on
collaborative project:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The
developmental course of
cerebral lateralization in space and language</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><span
style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Johns
Hopkins University and
Georgetown University Medical School</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">We seek an
outstanding Postdoctoral Researcher for a newly-funded 4-year
NSF grant,
collaborative between Barbara Landau (Johns Hopkins University)
and Elissa
Newport (Georgetown University Medical School).<span
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</span>The project aim is to understand the developmental course
of cerebral lateralization
for space and language among healthy children between ages 4 and
11 years.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">Qualifications:
The postdoctoral researcher will be hired full time to work on
the project (3
years active), starting in the fall-winter of 2023-2024.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The successful candidate
will hold a Ph.D. in
Cognitive Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, and/or related
fields, with theoretical
and technical understanding of language and spatial
representation and its development
from birth through adulthood.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The
position is ideal for the candidate who values theoretical
approaches to the
development of brain and mind and is extremely well-trained in
both behavioral
and brain imaging (fMRI) approaches to cognition across domains.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The researcher will work
with PIs Landau and Newport,
and Co-PI Anna Greenwald to adapt and use multiple existing
imaging (fMRI)
tasks to measure cortical lateralization over development and do
the same for
multiple behavioral tasks that will test for performance
correlates as
lateralization changes.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The
suite of
tasks will be administered to child participants ranging from 4
to 11 years of
age, with each child undergoing a set of imaging and behavioral
tests that tap
both spatial and language functions.<span
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</span>Analytic techniques will include modeling development of
lateralization over
age across different tasks, and within-subject for the full
range of tasks, to
determine whether changes in lateralization are parallel across
domains or vary
by domain, and how these changes relate to behavioral
performance. In addition
to the central questions guiding the project, there will be room
for intensely
probing specific questions about the relationships between tasks
within the
language system (e.g. syntax/ prosody) and across language and
space (e.g.
words/faces).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">Work
environment:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>All testing
of participants
(both imaging and behavioral) will be carried out at Georgetown
Medical School,
in the Center for Brain Plasticity.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>More
generally, however, the postdoctoral researcher will be expected
to take
advantage of the resources at both universities (JHU,
Georgetown) as
appropriate, including seminars and lab meetings held jointly on
a regular
basis as well as colloquia held at each location. The candidate
should be one
who values the opportunity to join a highly collaborative and
interdisciplinary
team and they should be prepared to lead in the research project
as well as
activities designated for NSF broader impacts.<span
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</span>Salary and benefits are competitive.</span></p>
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Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif">Application:
Please send a CV and cover letter detailing interests and
accomplishments, as
well as the names and contact information of three referees to
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:landau@jhu.edu">landau@jhu.edu</a>
and/or <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:eln10@georgetown.edu">eln10@georgetown.edu</a>.</span></p>
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