Job Advertisement University College London POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH SCIENTIST (FULL TIME) Centre for Developmental Language Disorders and Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Human Communication Science A full time postdoctoral research scientist position is available from February, 2001 at the new Centre for Developmental Language Disorders and Cognitive Neuroscience. The post holder will be asked to lead a component of an overall research programme funded by the Wellcome Trust on the cognitive function and structure of sentence processing in children with SLI and children developing normally. The exact nature of the experiments will partly depend on the research expertise of the successful applicant; it could involve high-density ERP recordings, and/or psycholinguistic investigations of sentence processing to elucidate the development of specialised cognitive functions, such as grammar/the relations between grammar and semantics and, generally, the underlying nature of SLI. The ERP investigations will be carried out in collaboration with Profs Angela Frederici (MPI for Cognitive Neuroscience, Leipzig), Mark Johnson, and Gergely Csibra (Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College) in whose centres training and support will be provided. Closing date: 12th October, 2001. Interviews October/November. Informal inquiries: Prof. Heather van der Lely (h.vanderlely(a)ucl.ac.uk). Please send CV, names and addresses of two referees and samples of published work (e.g., 1-2 papers) to: Centre for Developmental Language Disorders and Cognitive Neuroscience, Dept of Human Communication Science, UCL, Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London, WC1N 1PF, UK. Full details are available at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/DLDCN