1 postdoctoral position and 1 research assistant position in "Language in Interaction", Nijmegen (The Netherlands)

These positions are part of the larger Dutch research consortium 'Language in Interaction', sponsored by a large grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The goal is to understand both the universality and the variability of the human language faculty from genes to behaviour. The postdoc and research assistant will be part of a team working on the question "Variability in language processing and in language learning: Why does the ability to learn language change with age? How can we characterise and map individual language skills in relation to the population distribution?", and wil focus on using variability in learning ability to investigate why second-language acquisition can become harder in adulthood. Both positions will be based at the Donders Institute - Centre for Cognition, Faculty of Social Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

The postdoctoral researcher should have a PhD degree (or equivalent) in the cognitive neuroscience of language learning or of human memory, or in a closely-related field of study, and be familiar, ideally, with running MRI experiments and with analysing MRI data (including DTI data), with carrying out psycholinguistic and/or learning experiments, with research on individual differences, and with testing children.

The research assistant should have completed, with good grades, a Bachelor's or (Research) Master's degree in psychology, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience, or a closely-related field of study, be familiar, ideally, with running experiments with human subjects (MRI experiments and/or behavioural experiments in psycholinguistics and/or human memory and/or individual differences), and have experience with testing large numbers of participants. Experience with testing children would be especially welcome, as would  experience with analysis of large datasets on behavioural and/or neuroimaging measures.