Tisztelt Kollegák! Az EU6-os pályázat keretében keresünk posztdoktort az lábbi státuszra. Kérem az érdeklõdõket nálam jekentkezzenek emailben. Köszönettel Miklósi Ádám POSTDOCTORAL POSITION A postdoctoral position tenable until February 29th 2008 (from as early as possible!) to participate in two sub-project s on referential communication in children and people with autism, part of the REFCOM project, funded by the EC NEST-PATHFINDER initiative. This subproject is a cooperation between the Laboratory of Comparative Ethology in Eotvos (Budapest, Dr. Miklosi), where the post will be based, and the Child Lab, St.Andrews (School of Psychology, UK; Dr. Juan C. Gómez), with the additional participation of other members of the REFCOM project. The sub-projects aim at : a) Developing non-verbal tests of referential communication for children with autism. b) Analysing the processing of visual referential signals by typical people and persons with autism using eye-tracking technology. The successful candidate will be expected to take special responsibility for sub-project a) and collaborate in sub-project with the St.Andrews team b). Duties will include collaboration in the design of experimental tasks, collection and analysis of data, collaboration in writing papers based on those data. The applicant will be expected to fully participate in this highly interactive projects involving the collaboration between leading laboratories in Europe. This subproject will involve work in Budapest, but also a variable number of months in Britain (St.Andrews and UCL): between 6 months and 12 months. Salary will be 150.000 HUF. The stay in Britain will be subsidised with payment of accommodation and additional subsistence expenses by the host laboratory. The applicant must have a very good command of English. Preferably he/she should have a background in developmental psychology and experience working with people with autism. Further particulars can be obtained from Dr. Miklosi and Dr. Gomez Interested parties should send their CV and publication list in English to dr Adam Miklosi (miklosa(a)ludens.elte.hu) before 30th of June 2005. Adam Miklosi, Dsci Dept. of Ethology Eötvös University Budapest, Pázmány P. s 1c 1117 Hungary FURTHER INFORMATION ON SUB-PROJECTS SUB-PROJECT: Referential Communication in Children with Autism The overall objective is to test the hypothesis that there is a differential, selective breakdown of referential communication in autism (intact requesting vs. impaired declarative/informative functions) charting the abilities and disabilities of children with autism in a battery of referential tasks partially based on those developed in other REFCOM sub-projects with children, apes, and dogs. 1. To test the ability to understand and manipulate others' attention in requesting and declarative/informative contexts. 2. To test the ability to inform others about relevant instrumental targets in requesting situations. 3. To test the ability to follow referential signals from others to locate targets of interest SUB-PROJECT: Visual processing of referential signals by humans To study how referential displays in the visual modality (gestures and body postures, with or without accompanying auditory information) produced by different species are processed by humans. 1. To establish the effectiveness and efficiency (Reaction time) of different displays varying in amount of information (e.g., gaze only, gaze+arm gesture; gaze+arm+body orientation) in directing attention to targets. 2. To establish through eye-tracking technology which parts of the display are preferentially processed and lead to effective attention orientation. 3. To compare typical persons with persons with autism in processing referential information.