23.4460, Support: Cognitive Science: PhD Student, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands

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Subject: 23.4460, Support: Cognitive Science: PhD Student, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands

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Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:16:11
From: Merel van Wijk [m.m.van.wijk at hum.leidenuniv.nl]
Subject: Cognitive Science: PhD Student, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands

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 Institution/Organization: Universiteit Leiden 
Department: LUCL 
Web Address: http://www.lucl.nl 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Teaching,Project Work
 
Specialty Areas: Cognitive Science 
cognitive linguistics, music cognition, visual arts, geometry, rhythm and meter 

Description:

4PhD positions, NWO-sponsored Horizon project: 'Knowledge and Culture'

The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) will be funding the 
Horizon research project 'Knowledge and Culture'. This project will be carried out 
as a collaboration between the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL), the 
Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS), the Meertens Institute 
(KNAW), and the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Prof. dr Johan Rooryck at the 
Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) of the Faculty of Humanities at 
Leiden University will be coordinating the research project. For more information, 
please see the full description of the project at http://www.hum.leiden.edu/lucl/job-
opportunities/vacancies-at-leiden-university.html

Knowledge and culture:
In various domains of cognitive science, a new paradigm holds that humans and 
non-human animals are born with a small set of hard-wired cognitive abilities that 
are task-specific, language-independent, and non-species-specific. These core 
knowledge systems are innate cognitive skills that have the capacity for building 
mental representations of objects, persons, spatial relationships, numerosity, and 
social interaction. In addition to core knowledge systems, humans possess 
species-specific, uniquely human abilities such as language and music.
The 'core knowledge' paradigm challenges scholars in the humanities to ask the 
question how nurture and culture build on nature. This project examines the way in 
which innate, non specifically human, core knowledge systems for object 
representation, number, and geometry constrain cultural expressions in music, 
language, and the visual arts. In this research program, four domains of the 
humanities will be investigated from the point of view of core knowledge: (1) music 
cognition; (2) language and number; (3) visual arts and geometry; (4) poetry, 
rhythm, and meter.

4 PhD positions in 4 subprojects:

Subproject 1: Music cognition
teamleader: Prof.dr H. Honing (UvA) 	
1PhD student in music cognition 
http://vacatures.leidenuniv.nl/wetenschappelijk/12-246-phd-student-in-music-
cognition-.html	
		
Subproject 2: Language and Number
teamleader: Prof.dr S. Barbiers (Meertens Institute/ UU)	
1PhD student in linguistics or cognitive science 
http://vacatures.leidenuniv.nl/wetenschappelijk/12-247-phd-student-in-linguistics-
cognitive-science-.html			

Subproject 3: Visual Arts and Geometry
teamleaders: Prof.dr.ir M. Delbeke (UGent) & Prof.dr C. van Eck (UL)
1PhD student in art history 
http://vacatures.leidenuniv.nl/wetenschappelijk/12-249-phd-student-in-art-
history-.html	
			
Subproject 4: Poetry, rhythm, and meter
teamleader: Prof.dr M. van Oostendorp (Meertens Institute/ UL)
http://vacatures.leidenuniv.nl/wetenschappelijk/12-248-phd-student-in-metrics-.html 

Application Deadline: 23-Nov-2012 

Web Address for Applications: http://vacatures.leidenuniv.nl/wetenschappelijk/ 

Contact Information: 
	J. Rooryck 
	j.e.c.v.rooryck at hum.leidenuniv.nl



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