Indefinite according to RD 32/2021 of December 28, 2021
Organisation/Company: Universitat Pompeu Fabra - ETIC Department
Research Field: Neurosciences
Researcher Profile: First Stage Researcher (R1)
Positions: Research Support Positions
Country: Spain
Application Deadline: 2 Dec 2024 - 23:59 (Europe/Madrid)
Type of Contract: Other
Job Status: Part-time
Hours Per Week: 10
Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? European Union / Next Generation EU
Reference Number: PID2022-136925NB-I00/MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033
Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No
Offer Description The research assistant will join a multidisciplinary project team led by Luca Bonatti, director of the Reasoning and Infant Cognition lab, here , Center for Brain and Cognition, here , Pompeu Fabra University, working on the project, "Seeing inferences: Behavioral, linguistic and neuropsychological evidence for primitives of thought (SI)". The aim of the project is to understand the logical bases of human thought. We operationalize this question by developing detailed case studies. Here, we build nonverbal scenes embodying disjunctive reasoning and entailment relations, expanding our research to the conception of alternative possibilities. We propose to test infants and adults with oculomotor and neuroimaging techniques to look for signatures of logical representations and inferences induced by the passive inspection of simple scenes.
Goals:
Understand the nature of the representations elicited by simple nonverbal disjunctive reasoning, in infants and adults.
Describe the dynamics of brain activation elicited by simple nonverbal reasoning.
Approach the study of nonverbal entailment, focusing on the notion of alternative possibility and quantification in nonverbal complex scenes.
Transform the procedures devised in the context of previous projects to study elementary reasoning into diagnostic tools for early detection of atypical development.
Main research field: Psychology
Tasks to be performed: The research assistant will participate in tasks for goals 1, 3 and 4:
Design and run fNIRS and eyetracker experiments with infants, children, and adults, using Python and Psyscope X.
Analyze results with R.
Assist in writing papers.
The duration of these tasks is estimated over a period of 3 months.
Dedication and working hours: Part time (10h/week).
Planned remuneration: approx. 8.193,22 € gross per year.
The expected start date is January 2nd 2024, the job is in Barcelona.
Additional Information Eligibility criteria:
Selection criteria: The selection of the candidates will be made through evaluation of the curriculum and, where appropriate, with the carrying out of a test and/or interview. Valuation will be as follows:
Academic Training (0-40 points): Master in Language Sciences, Linguistics or similar.
Other professional training and experience, adequacy to the proposed profile (0-40 points):
Good English skills, both written and spoken.
Demonstrable experience in a cognitive neuroscience laboratory (preferably with reasoning and/or 2nd language acquisition).
Experience in data collection and analysis.
Other merits (0-20 points):
Psyscope X, R, Python.
The minimum score to pass the selection process is 70 points. The candidate with the highest score in the selection process will be offered the job.
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