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[Dr L S Smith (Staff)]

                    COGNITIVE SCIENCE/HCI INITIATIVE

                        Department of Psychology
                        University of St Andrews
                              Scotland, UK
                                   and
           Centre for Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience
                         University of Stirling
                              Scotland, UK

                  2 POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS

           investigating psychological and neurocomputational
                  processes of visual word recognition.


This project represents a major collaboration between the Department of
Psychology, St Andrews (a leading centre for human perceptual research)
and the CCCN, Stirling (a leading centre for neural network research) to
develop a new computational model of visual word recognition.  
Applications are invited for the following 2 post-doctoral fellowships
within the project:

Post 1 (tenured for 3 years, based at Department of Psychology,
St Andrews University) will involve developing fresh perspectives on the
neural modelling of visual word recognition from human experimentation.  
The data from these experiments will form the basis for the
computational modelling in the project.   Applicants should have
experience in human experimentation in cognitive science or perceptual
research, be well acquainted with the use of computers in
experimentation, and have some knowledge of neural network research.

Post 2 (tenured for 2 years, based at Centre for Cognitive and
Computational Neuroscience, Stirling University) will involve setting up
and developing a new computational model of visual word recognition
which combines the findings from St Andrews with fresh perspectives on
neurocomputational processing.   Applicants should have experience or
interest in neural computation/connectionism and have a background in
one or more of the following:  computing science, psychology,
mathematics, physics.

Starting salary for each post will be on the 1A scale for research staff
(up to \pounds 18165 pa).   Both posts are scheduled to start as soon as
possible in 1991.   Application forms and further particulars for both
posts can be obtained from The Director of Personnel Services, College
Gate, St Andrews University, St Andrews, Fife, KY16 9AJ, to whom
completed applications forms together with a CV should be submitted to
arrive no later than November 30th 1990.   
Further information can be obtained informally from:
(Post 1)  Dr Tim Jordan at St Andrews (tel.0334 76161, ext 7234)
(Post 2)  Dr Leslie Smith at Stirling (tel.0786 67435, direct line)

Previous applicants for these posts need not re-apply.

Both Universities operate an Equal Opportunities Policy.