[vslist] Post-Doctoral Research Associate Positions

[John M. Henderson]

Post-Doctoral Research Associate Positions
Cognitive Science Program, Michigan State University

Three post-doctoral research associate positions are available in the 
Cognitive Science Program at Michigan State University 
(http://www.cogsci.msu.edu/). Consideration of applications for all 
positions will begin immediately and will continue until an appropriate 
candidate is found. Start date is flexible. Applicants must have completed 
the doctoral degree prior to taking a position. Salary will be competitive 
and commensurate with experience.

(1) A research associate position is available to work on real-world scene 
perception with John Henderson (http://eyelab.msu.edu/). Research in the 
lab focuses on gaze control, transsaccadic integration, scene 
representation, and scene memory. The eyelab includes five eyetrackers for 
a variety of applications including saccade-contingent display changes and 
free-viewing eyetracking in the natural environment. Collaborations exist 
that combine this work with computational modeling and with fMRI.

(2) A second post-doctoral research position is available in 
psycholinguistics with Fernanda Ferreira (http://eyelab.msu.edu/). Topics 
currently under investigation include spoken language comprehension (e.g., 
effects of prosody, disfluencies), grammatical encoding during language 
production, the integration of linguistic and visual information online 
during processing, and syntactic reanalysis of misparsed / misinterpreted 
sentences.

(3) We are seeking a post-doctoral research associate with training in fMRI 
who is interested in bringing this methodology to bear on issues in 
high-level vision, scene perception, and/or psycholinguistics. This 
position will be associated with the Cognitive Science Program and the 
Cognitive Science Research Center, and will interact with the Facility for 
Functional Brain Imaging, which features a research-dedicated General 
Electric 3.0 Tesla MRI system equipped with Excite multichannel technology.

Applicants interested in bridging across the above areas are particularly 
encouraged to apply. Michigan State University has a vibrant cognitive 
science community supported by an IGERT training grant from the National 
Science Foundation, a newly established research center devoted to the 
behavioral, computational, and neurobiological study of vision, language, 
and action, and a new research-dedicated fMRI Facility. All positions are 
renewable for one or more additional years. Interested applicants should 
send a CV, statement of research interests, representative publications, 
and the names of three referees to search@cogsci.msu.edu. Though electronic 
submission is preferred, paper applications can be mailed to Post-Doc 
Search, Cognitive Science Program, Psychology Research Building, Michigan 
State University, East Lansing, MI 48824-1117, USA. Please direct initial 
enquiries via email to search@cogsci.msu.edu. Women and members of 
under-represented groups are especially encouraged to apply. Michigan State 
University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.