Postdoc Opportunity

[Ken McRae]

Postdoctoral Fellowship in Psycholinguistics & Computational Modeling

We have funding for a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in my lab at the
University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. The stipend is for
$32,500 per year plus $2,500 per year for travel. There are no citizenship
restrictions.

Our research focuses on the interrelated issues of noun meaning, verb
meaning, and sentence processing. Central to this work is connectionist
modeling of the computation of noun and verb meaning, as well as
competition-integration modeling of on-line sentence reading times. Our
research integrates theories and methodologies from a number of areas,
including: word recognition, concepts and categorization, sentence
processing, connectionist modeling, neuroscience, and patients with acquired
disorders. Thus, a PDF has the opportunity to participate in projects in a
number of areas of Cognitive Science.

Our department has seven Cognition faculty, all of whom conduct research
related to language processing. Thus, our faculty and graduate students
provide a rich research environment. I am also involved in a number of
collaborations with researchers from other universities. My lab is
well-equipped for both human experimentation and computational modeling. UWO
also has a 4T magnet that is used for research only.

London is a pleasant city of approximately 350,000, and is located 2 hours
from both Toronto and Detroit. Note that a reasonable apartment in London
costs approximately $500 per month.

For further information on our lab and Cognition at UWO, see:
http://www.sscl.uwo.ca/psychology/cognitive/faculty.html

If you are interested in this position, please contact Ken McRae.

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Ken McRae
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Social Science Centre
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario  CANADA  N6A 5C2

email:  mcrae at uwo.ca
http://www.sscl.uwo.ca/psychology/cognitive/mcrae/mcrae.html
phone: (519) 661-2111  ext. 84688    fax: (519) 661-3961
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