The NIH-funded Training Program in Language Processing at the University of Illinois expects to have an opening for one post-doctoral trainee beginning after 1 July 2011. The appointment will be for one year with the possibility of extension to a second year. Only US citizens or permanent residents are eligible. We encourage applications from those with doctoral degrees in linguistics, computer science, and neuroscience, as well as psychology and related fields.
Applicants may work in areas such as language comprehension and production, language acquisition, cognitive neuroscience, and computational modeling. Faculty involved in the training program include Renee Baillargeon, Kathryn Bock, Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Kiel Christianson, Jennifer Cole, Gary Dell, Kara Federmeier, Cynthia Fisher, Susan Garnsey, Brian Ross, Chilin Shih, Elizabeth Stine-Morrow, and Duane Watson. The Psychology Department and the Beckman Institute provide advanced technical facilities for carrying out research, including magnetic resonance imaging, optical imaging, electrophysiological recording, eye tracking (both fixed and head-mounted), conversational interaction, speech processing, a high-fidelity driving simulator, and electromagnetic articulography. Please send a statement of interest, a CV, and three letters of reference to jkbock@illinois.edu. Materials may also be sent by mail to Kathryn Bock, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, 405 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana, IL 61801. Applications will be considered immediately and will be reviewed until the position is filled.
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Elizabeth A. L. Stine-Morrow
Professor of Educational Psychology,
Psychology, and the Beckman Institute
226 Education Building
1310 S. Sixth Street
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL 61820
(217) 244-2167 (office)
(217) 244-7931 (CRC lab)
(217) 244-7336 (Beckman lab)
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