[koglist] Fwd: Horizon project: ‘Knowledge and Culture’

From: Mária Sipos <maria.sipos(a)gmail.com> Subject: Horizon project: ‘Knowledge and Culture’ Date: 29 October 2012 9:45:12 am CET To: racsmany(a)cogsci.bme.hu, babarczy(a)cogsci.bme.hu, alukacs(a)cogsci.bme.hu, honbolygo.ferenc(a)ppk.elte.hu, kiraly.ildiko(a)ppk.elte.hu, Zoltan Banreti <banreti(a)nytud.mta.hu>hu>, richter.pal(a)btk.mta.hu, Gergely Csibra <csibrag(a)ceu.hu>hu>, szorenyi(a)iti.mta.hu Reply-To: sipos(a)nytud.hu Tisztelt Kollégák! Kérjük segítségüket, hogy a levélben röviden bemutatott lehetőségek (posztdoktori és PhD-állások) híre eljuthasson az Önök által alkalmasnak ítélt fiatal szakemberekhez. Köszönjük közreműködésüket! Üdvözlettel: Sipos Mária tudományos titkár MTA Nyelvtudományi Intézet 1068 Budapest, Benczúr u. 33. Tel.: 06-1-32-14-830 / 133, 118 * 4 Postdoctoral researchers and 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-univer… 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 systemsare 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. 8 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… 1 Postdoctoral researcher in music cognition/ linguistics http://vacatures.leidenuniv.nl/wetenschappelijk/12-251-postdoctoral-researc… 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-lingu… 1 Postdoctoral researcher in linguistics http://vacatures.leidenuniv.nl/wetenschappelijk/12-252-postdoctoral-researc… 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-h… 1 Postdoctoral researcher in art history http://vacatures.leidenuniv.nl/wetenschappelijk/12-254-postdoctoral-researc… Subproject 4: Poetry, rhythm, and meter teamleader: Prof.dr M. van Oostendorp (Meertens Institute/ UL) 1PhD student in metrics http://vacatures.leidenuniv.nl/wetenschappelijk/12-248-phd-student-in-metri… 1 Postdoctoral researcher in metrics http://vacatures.leidenuniv.nl/wetenschappelijk/12-253-postdoctoral-researc…