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The Baltimore Museum of Art
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One of the highlights of Baltimore is the Baltimore
Museum of Art. The Baltimore Museum of Art maintains an
internationally renowned collection, encompassing over 95,000 pieces
that range from ancient Antioch mosaics to cutting-edge contemporary
art. The museum proudly features the world's largest holding of the
works of Henri Matisse, with over 1,000 pieces.
In addition to European masters such as Picasso,
Cézanne, Manet, Degas, Miró, van Gogh, Chagall,
Gauguin, and Renoir, the museum also has extensive African, Asian,
and American permanent collections, as well as a wealth of special
exhibitions.
The Baltimore Museum of Art sponsors a number of family friendly
activities, including free activity booklets, a Matisse for Kids
online activity, and a BMA family audio tour. Go to the BMA
Family Activities page for more information. The museum is
free for everyone and is open Wednesday through Sunday from 10:00 am
to 5:00 pm. Located adjacent to The Johns Hopkins University, the
museum is easy to access via the free Charmed
City Circulator, Baltimore's premiere city shuttle system.
In addition to the Baltimore Museum of Art, the city is also home to The Walters
Art Museum, featuring 55 centuries of art. Go to the "Museums"
page of Baltimore.org for a full description of the many amazing
specialty museums available in Baltimore.
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SNL 2017
November 8-10, 2017
Baltimore, Maryland
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Call for Student Volunteers
Deadline to Submit Travel Award Applications
Board of Directors Nominations Open
Last Day to Submit Volunteer Applications
Early
Registration Deadline
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Job Postings &
Announcements
If you have a job posting,
general announcement, conference or workshop posting that you would
like to include in the SNL Newsletter,
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Paul Cézanne
Mont Sainte-Victoire
Seen from the Bibémus Quarry c. 1897
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Notifications of
Accepted Abstracts Sent
The notifications of accepted abstracts were sent on
July 18, 2017. If you did not receive your notification, please contact
SNL at info@neurolang.org.
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Final Days to Submit Travel Award Applications
SNL is still accepting applications for the 2017 Travel Awards. Each
Travel Award provides the recipient with $550 to help cover the cost of
meeting registration and travel. All graduate students and postdocs are
eligible to apply.
The application
deadline is July 26, 2017. See Awards Information for details on the
application process.
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Early Registration Rates Still Available
The Ninth Annual Meeting of the Society for the
Neurobiology of Language will be held from November 8 - 10, 2017 at the
Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel in the beautiful city of Baltimore,
Maryland. To take advantage of the discounted Early Registration Rates,
you must register by August 24, 2017.
An SNL Account is required for conference registration.
If you do not yet have an SNL Account, please Create An Account. If you already have
an SNL Account, please Login to register.
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Job Postings
and Announcements
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Dutch Research Consortium
"Language in Interaction"
Two Postdoctoral Positions
One Research Assistant Position
Dutch Research Consortium 'Language in Interaction'
Vacancy number: 30.06.17
Application deadline: September 10, 2017, 23.59 CET
We are looking for highly motivated candidates to enrich
a unique research consortium aiming to unravel the neurocognitive
mechanisms of language at multiple levels. The goal is to understand
both the universality and the variability of the human language faculty
from genes to behaviour.
Currently, our consortium advertises 2 Postdoc positions
and 1 RA position. These positions provide the opportunity for
conducting world-class research as a member of an interdisciplinary
team. Each position has its own requirements and profile.
Click here for more information on the advertised
positions.
The Netherlands has an outstanding track record in the
language sciences. The Language in Interaction research consortium,
sponsored by a large grant from the Netherlands Organisation for
Scientific Research (NWO), brings together many of the excellent
research groups in the Netherlands with a research programme on the
foundations of language.
In addition to excellence in the domain of language and
related relevant fields of cognition, our consortium provides state-of-the-art
research facilities and a research team with ample experience in the
complex research methods that will be invoked to address the scientific
questions at the highest level of methodological sophistication. These
include methods from genetics, neuroimaging, computational modelling,
and patient-related research. This consortium realises both quality and
critical mass for studying human language at a scale not easily found
anywhere else.
We have identified five Big Questions (BQ) that are
central to our understanding of the human language faculty. These
questions are interrelated at multiple levels. Teams of researchers
will collaborate to collectively address these key questions of our
field.
Our five Big Questions are:
BQ1: The nature of the mental lexicon: How to bridge
neurobiology and psycholinguistic theory by computational modelling?
BQ2: What are the characteristics and consequences of
internal brain organization for language?
BQ3: Creating a shared cognitive space: How is language
grounded in and shaped by communicative settings of interacting people?
BQ4: Variability in language processing and in language
learning: Why does the ability to learn language change with age? How
can we characterise and map individual language skills in relation to
the population distribution?
BQ5: How are other cognitive systems shaped by the
presence of a language system in humans?
Successful candidates will be appointed at one of the
consortium's home institutions, depending on the position applied for.
All successful candidates will become members of our Big Question
teams. The research is conducted in an international setting at all
participating institutions. English is the lingua franca.
- a degree in one of the fields indicated for
the positions;
- strong motivation;
- excellent proficiency in written and spoken
English.
- employment: 0.8-1.0 FTE;
- you will be appointed at one of the
consortium's home institutions, depending on the position applied
for;
- terms of employment depend on the embedding
institution;
- the institutes involved have regulations in
place that enable their staff to create a good work-life balance.
All institutes involved are equal opportunity employers,
committed to building a culturally diverse intellectual community, and
as such encourage applications from women and minorities.
Would you like to know more?
Further information on: the Language in Interaction
Consortium
Further information on the different positions, including terms of
employment and contacts.
Additional information can be obtained from the contacts
for the different positions.
You should upload your application (attn. of Prof. dr.
P. Hagoort) using this link:
Your application should include (and be limited to) the
following attachments:
- a cover letter quoting at the top the number
of the position you apply for,
- your curriculum vitae, including a list of
publications and the names of at least two persons who can provide
references.
Please apply before September 10, 2017, 23:59 CET.
For more information on your application: +31 24
3611173.
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University of Trento,
Neuroimaging Labs (LNiF), Center for Mind-Brain Sciences (CIMeC)
Two Assistant Professor Positions
Call for Expression of Interest for two Assistant
Professor positions. More senior candidates will also be considered.
The Center for Mind-Brain Sciences (CIMeC) at the
University of Trento, Italy, invites expressions of interest from
highly motivated scholars in view of the opening of two principal
investigator positions at the level of assistant professor (3 years +
potential 2 year extension). Candidates who have already a tenured
position elsewhere would be considered directly for a tenure-track
assistant professor/tenured associate professor.
The ideal candidate should have an established track
record of research in any area of cognitive neuroimaging studies,
preferably fMRI. The successful candidates will work in the
Neuroimaging Labs (LNiF: http://www.cimec.unitn.it/en/69/neuroimaging-labs-lnif)
at the Center for Mind-Brain Sciences (CIMeC: http://web.unitn.it/en/cimec).
They are expected to develop their own research program but also to
interact actively with other CIMeC faculty using different
methodologies to address various aspects of cognitive functioning.
Knowledge of Italian is appreciated but not required.
The successful candidates are expected to contribute to
the Center's teaching mission at the PhD and MSc level. Instruction is
in English. Successful candidates will negotiate the possibility of
supervising PhD students who are fully funded by the University. The
teaching duties at the MSc level vary depending on academic rank.
Assistant professors are expected to teach 60 hrs/year, tenure-track
assistant professors 90 hrs/year, tenured associate professors 120
hrs/year.
The University of Trento consistently ranks as a top
Italian university in both national Research Assessment Evaluations
(RAE) and University Surveys.In the latest RAE the University of Trento
as a whole ranks 1st among medium-sized universities.
The CIMeC's goal is to foster cutting-edge research on
cognition and its neural basis, and to support the dissemination of
these findings internationally and within the local community. As an
interdisciplinary research and teaching center, it draws on faculty
from several departments, including Psychology and Cognitive Science,
Linguistics and Philosophy, Physics, Mathematics, and Information
Engineering and Computer Science. Current faculty members come from
Italy, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, USA, Canada, Argentina,
Israel, and the United Kingdom.
Although a relatively small group, CIMeC faculty have
won many competitive national and international grants, including 1
European Research Council (ERC) advanced grant, 1 ERC consolidator
grant, 6 ERC starting grants, other European Framework grants, and
highly competitive grants awarded by the local government. The Center
has consistently been ranked the leading cognitive neuroscience
research unit in Italy. It is part of the Erasmus Mundus European Master
Program in Language and Communication Technologies.
Expressions of interest in English should include a
brief motivation letter and a Curriculum Vitae and should be addressed
to Dr. Alfonso Caramazza (alfonso.caramazza@unitn.it), who chairs a committee that
includes Drs. Mel Goodale and Alex Martin.
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Department of Psychology,
Royal Holloway, University of London
Three Postdoctoral Research Associate Positions
Up to 3 postdoctoral research associate positions (Grade
7: expect salary range £32,003 - £38,183 p.a., plus London weighting of
£2,134) to commence in 2018.
Professor Carolyn McGettigan is seeking to appoint up to
3 postdoctoral researchers on a 5-year Leverhulme Trust Research
Leadership Award. The area of research is "The Social Neuroscience
of Voices", and will include studies of voice identity perception,
voice production, and spoken interactions. Appointments are likely to
be for 2 years in the first instance, with start dates in early 2018.
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BCBL - Basque Center on
Cognition, Brain and Language
Research Faculty Positions
RESEARCH FACULTY POSITIONS at the BCBL- Basque Center on
Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu (Center of
excellence Severo Ochoa)
The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián,
Basque Country, Spain) offers SENIOR research staff positions in
several areas: language acquisition, production, multilingualism,
neurodegeneration of language, language and learning disorders,
neurocognition of language and advanced methods for cognitive
neuroscience.
The Center promotes a rich research environment without
teaching obligations. It provides access to the most advanced
behavioral and neuroimaging techniques, including 3 Tesla MRI, a
whole-head MEG system, four ERP labs, a NIRS lab, a baby lab including eyetracker,
two eyetracking labs, and several well-equipped behavioral labs. There
are excellent technical support staff and research personnel (PhD and
postdoctoral students). The senior positions are permanent
appointments.
We are looking for cognitive neuroscientists or experimental
psychologists with a background in psycholinguistics and/or neighboring
cognitive neuroscience areas, and physicists and/or engineers with fMRI
expertise. Individuals interested in undertaking research in the fields
described in www.bcbl.eu
(research) should apply through the Ikerbasque web page (www.ikerbasque.net).
Deadline:
September 15th, 13:00 CET
Only researchers with a solid research track, senior
level and international research experience are considered.
Support letter from the host institution is mandatory.
For more information, please contact the Director of
BCBL, Manuel Carreiras (info@bcbl.eu).
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BCBL - Basque Center on
Cognition, Brain and Language
Research Faculty Position
Postdoctoral
Position
The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián,
Basque Country, Spain) has an open research staff position (Staff
Scientist) and a postdoctoral position in the area of language
acquisition. The Center has a state of the art baby lab, and
exceptional access to babies. The bilingual nature of the Basque
Country provides an unusual opportunity to study language acquisition.
The Center promotes a rich research environment with
minimal teaching obligations. It provides access to the most advanced
behavioral and neuroimaging techniques, including 3 Tesla MRI, a
whole-head MEG system, four ERP labs, a NIRS lab, the baby lab
(including an eyetracker), two eyetracking labs, and several
well-equipped behavioral labs. There are excellent technical support
staff and research personnel (PhD and postdoctoral students).
This faculty position has a term of appointment of 5 years. Candidates
should have at least 3-5 years of postdoctoral experience and a very
strong publication track record. The postdoctoral position has a term
of appointment of 2 years with a potential renewal.
Deadline: September 30th, 2017
We encourage immediate applications as the selection
process will be ongoing and the appointment may be made before the
deadline.
- Your curriculum vitae.
- A cover letter/statement describing your
research interests (4000 characters maximun)
- The names of two referees who would be willing
to write letters of recommendation
For further information about the position, please
contact the Director of BCBL, Manuel Carreiras (info@bcbl.eu).
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BCBL - Basque Center on
Cognition, Brain and Language
The Basque Center
on Cognition Brain and Language - BCBL- (San Sebastián, Basque Country,
Spain) www.bcbl.eu (Center
of excellence Severo Ochoa) is offering a postdoctoral position
focusing on neurobiological correlates of statistical learning and
language, as part of ERC-funded research project (PI: Ram Frost). The
research involves a combination of behavioral and functional brain
imaging (MEG, fMRI) experiments in humans. This is an exciting
opportunity to work on how the brain detects regularities in sensory
input, and how this relates to first or second language learning. The
project involves research groups at the BCBL, Hebrew University, and
the University of Toronto.
The successful
candidate will have a rigorous background in theory driven research,
experimental designs, deep knowledge of fMRI and/or MEG data
acquisition and analysis, a high level of independence, and a strong
publication record.
Individuals interested in undertaking research in the
fields described in www.bcbl.eu
(research) should apply through the BCBL web page http://www.bcbl.eu/jobs
(SL Postdoc 2017)
Deadline: July 30th
For more information about the specifics of the position, please
contact Ram Frost (ram.frost@mail.huji.ac.il) and for broader information
about the BCBL please contact Manuel Carreiras (info@bcbl.eu).
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Department of Experimental
Psychology, Oxford
Graduate Research Assistant in Cognitive Neuroscience
Grade 6: £27,629 -
£32,958 p.a.
A new and exciting
opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic graduate
researcher to work on a collaborative project with the Speech and Brain
Research Group using MRI to study children with developmental language
disorder. The project is led by Professor Kate Watkins and Professor
Dorothy Bishop.
The post is MRC
funded for 2 years and is available from 1 November 2017.
The Speech and
Brain Research Group has an established research record using brain
imaging to study children and adults with disorders affecting speech
and language. The aim of this project is to provide a detailed
characterisation of structural and functional alterations in the brains
of a large behaviourally well-characterised population of children with
developmental language disorder. Activities will include recruiting
participants and day-to-day management of the study, administering
computerised or standardised behavioural tests, acquiring brain imaging
data in children, analysing data, and preparing the data for publication.
The successful
candidate will hold a degree (2.1 or higher) in a relevant subject
(e.g. psychology, speech and language sciences, neuroscience,
biomedical science) and have a strong interest in developmental
language disorders and MRI. You will have excellent communication,
organisational and interpersonal skills as the job involves interaction
with children with developmental disorder and their caregivers. You
will have the ability and willingness to contribute to the intellectual
content of the research program, knowledge of statistical analysis of
behavioural data, and the ability to work independently as well as
collaboratively in a team. You should also be willing to work flexible
hours (weekends and/or evenings as needed). Previous experience with
brain imaging (MRI) and experience running a psychological or
behavioural research project are desirable.
You will be
required to upload a covering letter explaining how you meet the job
requirements, as well as a CV and details of two referees as part of
your online application.
The closing date for applications is 12:00 midday on 31
July 2017. Interviews will be held in the week commencing 14 August
2017.
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The Society for the Neurobiology of Language
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