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1. Post-doctoral fellowship: Montreal 2. Research Assistant/Postdoctoral position: MIT 3. Research Fellow: Edinburgh 4. Postdoctoral fellowship in fMRI: Groningen 5. Research assistant: Cambridge 6. Third Annual Undergraduate Workshop in Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience 7. Conference: On the Consequences of Meaning Selection: UT Austin 8. Two brief queries ************************************************* 1. Post-doctoral fellowship in Montreal From: Helene Kaufman <kaufmanh(a)magellan.umontreal.ca> JOB OPENING The international research group on the Mental Lexicon, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Director and Co-principal investigator: Dr. Gonia Jarema, at Universite de Montreal; Co-principal investigator: Dr. Eva Kehayia, at McGill University and Co-prinicipal investigator, Dr. Gary Libben, at University of Alberta) has a position open for a Post-Doctoral fellow in Montreal at the Research Centre of the Institut universitaire de geriatrie de Montreal. Candidates must have a Ph.D. with a specialization in psycho and/or neurolinguistics. Preference will be given to candidates with research experience on the mental lexicon. The fellowship is a one-year position, starting on April 3, 2000. Salary: in accordance with the norms in force at the Universite de Montreal. Applicants should be interested in conducting cross-language research on the mental lexicon as part of an international collaborative research initiative. The candidate will also be expected to mentor graduate students working on the project. Interested candidates should forward their curriculum vitae, a summary of their doctoral dissertation, a 1- to 2-page research proposal, and two letters of reference to Dr. Gonia Jarema, Project Director, by January 14, 2000. Mailing address: Centre de recherche Institut universitaire de geriatrie de Montreal 4565 Queen Mary Road Montreal, Quebec H3W 1W5 fax: 514-340-3548 e-mail: jarema(a)ere.umontreal.ca NB: Attachments in Word 6.0 or equivalent please PLEASE POST IN YOUR DEPARTMENTS AND CIRCULATE *************************************************** 2. Research Assistant/Postdoctoral position, MIT From: "Mary C. Potter" <molly(a)psyche.mit.edu> RESEARCH ASSISTANT or POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN COGNITION AT MIT Mary C. Potter is seeking a research assistant (Technical Assistant) and/or a postdoctoral fellow/associate, starting as soon as possible. My current research is on conceptual short-term attention and memory, including the attentional blink, competition between words in visual attention, the influence of sentence context on visual word perception and selection, picture encoding and memory, and crossmodal processing. The Technical Assistant or postdoc will have primary responsibility for running the lab, including supervising undergraduate research assistants, preparing and running experiments (with undergraduates as subjects), and analyzing data. A postdoc would collaborate on projects and would have some freedom to initiate projects within the domain of my grant. The research community in our building provides a good work environment, with opportunities to become acquainted with the work of students and faculty in the cognitive science section. Requirements for the research position include a B.A. or B.S degree, some experience in experimental research (preferably in cognition, language, or perception), and experience with programming Macintosh computers (not just word-processing). Other programming experience is a plus. A postdoctoral candidate would need, in addition, a Ph.D in experimental psychology, psycholinguistics, or a related field. To apply, please email, fax, or write me, enclosing a resume and the names and telephone numbers of at least two people as references. I'll be happy to answer any questions about the position. MIT is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer, and minority and women applicants are encouraged to apply. Mary C. Potter (Molly) Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences NE20-453 MIT Cambridge MA 02139 molly(a)psyche.mit.edu (617)253-5526 or 868-1436 FAX 617-258-8654 ********************************************************** 3. Research Fellow: Edinburgh From: "Martin Pickering" <martin(a)psy.gla.ac.uk> DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY RESEARCH FELLOW Required for a fixed term of three years in psycholinguistics. You will join a large research team working on varied aspects of human language processing and will conduct original research within this area. Applicants should have relevant postdoctoral research experience and a good publication record. Salary range : UK 21,597 to 30,065 p.a. Please quote ref : 776924 Informal enquiries to : Martin Pickering (martin(a)psy.gla.ac.uk). Further particulars including details of the application procedure should be obtained from the Personnel Department, 1 Roxburgh Street, Edinburgh EH8 9TB or Tel: 0131-650-2511 (24 hour answering service). http://www.personnel.ed.ac.uk/recruit.htm Closing date: 14 January 2000 ****************************************************** 4. Postdoctoral fellowship in fMRI: Groningen from: L.A.Stowe(a)let.rug.nl (Laurie Stowe) Functional MRI Postdoctoral Position School of Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience University of Groningen, The Netherlands A two-year post-doctoral fellowship to start as soon as possible. The candidate should have some experience with neuroimaging, preferably using functional magnetic resonance imaging applied to an area of neurology/neuropsychology/neurolinguistics. Expertise in either the methodology itself or in the statistical analysis of such data is desired or equivalent experience which can readily be extended for use with this methodology. The focus of the project is the use of the neuro-imaging technique of functional MRI to investigate the processing of language by normal adults and by groups with various language processing problems. The postdoctoral fellow will function as part of a tema with responsibility for developing the methodology to be applied in such studies and analyzing experimental data. The experiments will be coordinated with other research within the project, with the goal of developing a set of paradigms which can be applied across a variety of neurological conditions to extend our knowledge of the variation within within the neuroanatomy of language processing. To apply, send a cv and letters of recommendation, and references to articles available viainternet to L.A.Stowe(a)let.rug.nl. The letters of recommendation may also be electronic. If you wish to apply by mail, use the address below. Forfurther information, please contact Dr. Laurie A. Stowe at: Dept. of Linguistics +31 50 6366627 Faculty of Letters RuG Postbus 716 9700 AS Groningen, Netherlands or: L.A.Stowe(a)let.rug.nl Laurie A. Stowe Postbus 716 Dept. of Linguistics 9700 AS Goningen Faculty of Letters RuG The Netherlands tel: +31 50 363 6627 fax: +31 50 363 6855 email: L.A.Stowe(a)let.rug.nl ****************************************************** 5. Research assistant: Cambridge From: lktyler(a)csl.psychol.cam.ac.uk (L.K. Tyler) UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE CENTRE FOR SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY Research Assistant (full or part-time) Applications are invited for a Research Assistant to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, led by Professor L K. Tyler, working on language processing in healthy subjects and brain-damaged patients. The post will involve designing, running and analysing experimental studies with adult subjects. Candidates should have an appropriate background in psycholinguistics or experimental psychology, and have experience in using experimental software and in data analysis. Good computing skills would be an advantage. Salary will be on the RA1B scale within the 16286 - 18185 range (according to age and experience) for the full-time post, and pro rated accordingly for a part-time post. The position is funded from January 1 1999 August 31 2000. Applications in the form of a covering letter, full c.v. and the names and addresses of two referees should be sent to Professor L. K. Tyler, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, or by email [lktyler(a)csl.psychol.cam.ac.uk] to arrive no later than 22 December 1999. The University of Cambridge is an equal opportunities employer. ****************************************************** 6. Third Annual Undergraduate Workshop in Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience From: trueswel(a)cattell.psych.upenn.edu (John Trueswell) Friends and colleagues, This email is to let you know about the Third Annual Undergraduate Workshop in Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience, to be held at Penn's Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, June 5-23, 2000. I'm writing to ask if you could help spread the news of the workshop to your undergrads and faculty colleagues. If you could, please forward this announcement to undergraduates and colleagues via email. Last year's workshop was a big success. The students were excellent, and they provided very positive reviews of the seminars, labs, and panel discussions. Next year's workshop should be a lot of fun, and we think your undergraduates might be interested in applying. Also, if you are currently teaching a cognitive science-related course, please consider distributing this information to your class. Thanks for your help! John Trueswell Co-Coordinator of the IRCS Summer Workshop

Third Annual Undergraduate Summer Workshop in Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA June 5 - 23, 2000 To apply for the workshop, please see our on-line application form at: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/events/ugradsumwork.html The deadline for receipt of applications is March 1, 2000. Each year, the cognitive science community at the University of Pennsylvania brings together the best and brightest undergraduate students from around the world who are interested in the growing fields of cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience. The workshop is held on Penn's campus, at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, site of the National Science Foundation's Science and Technology Center for Research in Cognitive Science with the cooperation of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. As a workshop participant, you can: * Hear lectures from distinguished researchers in the fields of cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience * Participate in labs and lab tours involving some of the latest technologies and research methods * Present your own work through our Student Poster Session * Participate in panel discussions on the future of cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience Labs and Tours: * Free-Head Eye Tracking Lab in Language Processing * Language Development Lab * Graphics, Animation, and Human Modeling Lab * Language Corpus Analysis Lab * Event-Related Potential (ERP) Lab * Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) Lab * Cognitive Neurology Stroke Lab Lecture Topics: * Primate Communication * Real-time Language Processing * Language Development * Learning, Memory and Attention * Working Memory and Executive Function * Human and Machine Vision * Computational Modeling of Language and Cognition * Statistical Natural Language Processing Participating IRCS faculty include: Norman Badler, Steven Bird, Anjan Chatterjee, Dorothy Cheney, Robin Clark, Martha Farah, Leif Finkel, Lila Gleitman, Aravind Joshi, John Kounios, Mark Liberman, Mitch Marcus, Dimitris Metaxas, Martha Palmer, Ellen Prince, Maribel Romero, Robert Seyfarth, Mark Steedman, C. J. Taylor, Sharon Thompson-Schill, John Trueswell and Bonnie Webber. To apply, please complete our on-line application form at http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~ircs/events/ugradsumwork.html *** Course experience with cognitive science is desired, but not required. *** Admitted participants will be provided with a travel stipend, accommodations at the Penn dormitories and a food plan through the dining services. There are no tuition costs for participants. Questions? Please see our web page or send email to summer_workshop(a)central.cis.upenn.edu Mailing Address for Workshop Correspondence: Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Attn: Summer Workshop Suite 400A, 3401 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228 ****************************************************** 7. Conference: On the Consequences of Meaning Selection: UT Austin From: David Gorfein <gorfein(a)exchange.uta.edu> On the Consequences of Meaning Selection A conference sponsored by the American Psychological Association & The University of Texas at Arlington Psychology Department March 10-11, 2000 For a number of years researchers of reading and language have studied lexically ambiguous words (homographs and homophones). Much of the interest focussed on the form of lexical representation of these words and how they were accessed. In the late 1980's a few investigators began to go beyond the topic of access in an attempt to characterize the immediate effects of the disambiguation process. Meaning selection for one meaning was shown to make it difficult to select an alternative meaning of the homograph and at the same time there appeared to be enhanced ability to process materials related to the meaning selected. In short, those investigator's have argued that the effects of disambiguating have important consequences for discourse processes including the reading and comprehension of text. A conference addressed to address the theoretical issues raised by this research is scheduled for Arlington, Texas in March. The presenters (in alphabetic order) are: Michael C. Anderson, University of Oregon; David A. Balota, Washington University; Curt Burgess, University of California, Riverside; James R. Erickson, University of Texas, Arlington; Morton Ann Gernsbacher, University of Wisconsin; David S. Gorfein, University of Texas, Arlington; Walter Kintsch, University of Colorado; Thomas K. Landauer, University of Colorado; Robin Morris, University of South Carolina; Charles A. Perfetti, University of Pittsburgh; Greg B. Simpson, University of Kansas; and Patrizia Tabossi, University of Trieste. For conference details including abstracts, registration materials, housing, etc. see http://www.uta.edu/psychology/apa_conference. ****************************************************** 8. Two brief queries From: hamideh marefat <marefat(a)chamran.ut.ac.ir> Dear Members, 1. Do you know Inagaki's email? She wrote an article in Language Learning 1997. The mail Shunji Inagaki wrote at the end of the article seems to have changed. 2. I would appreciate your comments about the following question: If a person shows mastery over the syntactic structure of a verb, he/she knows the meaning of that verb, bothe the broad range and the narrow range constraints, as Pinker (1989) calls them. Thank you in advance * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * hamideh marefat * * The university of Tehran * * The Faculty of Foreign Languages * * English Department * * Iran Tehran P.O.Box: 11495 - 136 * * * * * * * * * * * * * *