Connectionists: vision/language postdoctoral position (deadline April 20th)

[Franklin Chang]

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Research associate position to
study the relationship between visual/spatial representations and language.
Language is often used to describe the visual world and this is done by
labelling objects in the world with various roles (e.g., agent, goal).
There is now a large infant social cognition literature which shows how
categories like agents and goals may be identified using simple visual
heuristics. In this post, we will strengthen these links by experimentally
manipulating visual cues to see how they influence language choices in
adults and children. In addition to the experimental study of these links,
we will also develop computational models that use computer vision
techniques to track the interaction of objects in videos and link these
visual codes to the descriptions of the actions. We are most interested in
people with a computational background who have an interest in human
vision/language processing.

This post offers the opportunity to join a thriving research group at the
University of Liverpool and become a member of the ESRC International
Centre for Language and Communicative Development (LUCID,
http://www.lucid.ac.uk/), a multi-million pound collaboration between the
Universities of Liverpool, Manchester and Lancaster. You should have (or be
about to obtain) a PhD in a field related to Computer Science, Psychology,
Cognitive Science, or related disciple. The post is available for 3 years.

Deadline is April 20th, 2016

£32,600 - £34,576 pa

https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/working/jobvacancies/currentvacancies/research/r-590571/


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