PhD position in neurocomputational modelling of language processing

A PhD position is available within the 'Language in Interaction' consortium at the Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

The PhD candidate will participate in a team effort to understand the neurobiology underlying language processing by building computer models for sentence processing based on recurrent networks of spiking neurons. The goal is to develop a model with processing memory based on vector representations of words which are incrementally interpreted in terms of thematic roles ("who did what to whom"). A core objective will be to investigate the computational role of different neuronal models, connectivity types, neurobiologically motivated adaptation mechanisms, and different methods for calibrating the model's read-out units.

Closing date: 30 September 2014. For more information, see https://www.languageininteraction.nl/jobs/phd-positions.html and https://www.languageininteraction.nl/jobs/id-2nd-phd-call-general.html.