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Department of Psychology, University of Wales, Bangor
and Department of Psychology, University of York


CONNECTIONISM AND PSYCHOLOGY

THREE POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

Applications are invited for three post-doctoral research
fellowships to work on the connectionist and psychological
modelling of human short-term memory and spelling
development.

Two Fellowships are available for three years, on an ESRC-
funded project concerned with the development and evaluation
of a connectionist model of short-term memory.  One Fellow will
be based with Dr. Gordon Brown in the Cognitive
Neurocomputation Unit at Bangor and will be responsible for
implementing the model.  The other Fellow, based at York with
Dr. Charles Hulme, will be responsible for undertaking
psychological experiments with children and adults to evaluate
the model.  Starting salary for both posts on research 1A grade
up to # 13,495.

One two-year Fellowship is available to work on an MRC-funded
project to  develop a sequential connectionist model of the
development of spelling and phonemic awareness in children.
This post is based in Bangor with Dr. Gordon Brown.  Starting
salary on research 1A grade up to # 14,744.


Applicants should have postgraduate research experience or
interest in cognitive psychology/cognitive science or
connectionist/ neural network modelling and computer science.
Good computing skills are essential for the posts based in
Bangor, and  experience in running psychological experiments is
required for the York-based post.  Excellent computational and
research facilities will be available to the successful applicants.

The appointments may commence from 1st. October 1990, but
start could be delayed until 1st. January 1991.   Closing date for
applications is 7th. September 1990, but intending applicants
should get in touch as soon as possible.  Informal enquiries
regarding the Bangor-based posts, and requests for further
details of the posts and host departments, to Gordon Brown
(0248 351151 Ext 2624; email PSS001 at uk.ac.bangor.vaxa);
informal enquiries concerning the York-based post to Charles
Hulme ( 0904 433145; email ch1 at uk.ac.york.vaxa).
Applications (in the form of a curriculum vitae and the names
and addresses of two referees) should be sent to Mr. Alan
James, Personnel Office, University of Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd
LL57 2DG, UK.

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