PhD Studentships: Language in Autism and in Deafness

[David Saldaña]

The Marie Curie Initial Training Network "LanPercept" invites applications
for 2 Early Stage Researcher (pre-doctoral) positions available from
September 1st, 2013 and up to three years duration at the Individual
Differences, Language and Cognition Lab in the Department of Developmental
and Educational Psychology, University of Seville, Seville, Spain.
Applicants should hold a degree in Psychology, Linguistics,
Psycholinguistics or Cognitive Psychology.

The projects involve studying specific aspects of reading and language
development in Autism and Deafness, respectively. The Autism project
(Situation models and comprehension in Autism Spectrum Disorders) will
investigate text-level reading comprehension in Autism Spectrum Disorders,
with a specific focus on inferencing and question-answering processes. The
Deafness project
(Visual perception and signed oral language in deafness) will use paradigms
based on eye movement methodology to explore lipreading, facialreading or
hands during comprehension of Sign Language.

Successful candidates will be expected to work with children and adults
with autism or deafness, carry out background testing of language, reading
and cognitive development, to follow recruitment through schools and
support groups, develop and program experimental tasks, to collect data and
to disseminate the results. Knowledge of Spanish is desirable, but not
essential.

More information at http://institucional.us.es/dcptea/index.php?lang=en

Complete applications including: (1) a statement of research interests, (2)
a full CV, (3) the names and e-mail addresses of two referees, (3) academic
transcript, (4) list of publications (if any), and (5) a copy of the
masters or honours thesis should be e- mailed as a single PDF by March 25,
2013 to Isabel Rodriguez (ireyes at us.es) (Deafness project) or David Saldaña
(dsaldana at us.es) (Autism project).

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