Professor of Cognitive Psychology and its Application to Technology

The Behavioral Studies Section of the Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences at ETH Zurich (www.gess.ethz.ch) invites applications for a professorship in the area of Cognitive Psychology. In addition to basic research, it is expected that the applicants focus on applying insights from Cognitive Psychology to the design and the handling of technology. Among others, possible areas of application could be human machine interaction, educational technology, virtual realities, or information technology. ETH is a high-ranking technical university, with core academic areas in engineering, the natural sciences, architecture and mathematics, which also appreciates the perspective of the humanities and social sciences in both education and research.

Dear colleagues,
 

The Neuropsychology Research Group at the University of the Balearic Islands (www.neuropsi

PhD position on NWO-funded 'Magic Moments in Word Learning' project, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands As a PhD student you will work on the project ‘Magic moments in word learning: memory formation and consolidation across ages and language settings’. This project investigates the behavioural and neural magic moments in word learning that are related to memory encoding, consolidation, and generalization. In a series of behavioural, EEG- and fMRI experiments, monolingual and bilingual adults will be asked to learn words. Questions that will be examined include the functional and neural aspects of generalization of learning, whether prior language learning modulates the learning of novel vocabulary, and how newly-learned words compete for selection in bilinguals’ first and second languages.

Deadline approaching! applications should be IN no later that 10 August 2010