Postdoctoral Researcher, Bonatti Lab, Seeing inferences: Behavioral, linguistic and neuropsychological evidence for primitives of thought

Description

The Postdoctoral Researcher will join a multidisciplinary project team led by Luca Bonatti, director of the Reasoning and Infant Cognition lab, https://www.upf.edu/web/rico, Center for Brain and Cognition, https://www.upf.edu/web/cbc, Pompeu Fabra University, working on the project, “Seeing inferences: Behavioral, linguistic and neuropsychological evidence for primitives of thought (SI)”, project PID2022-136925NB-I00 /MCIN/AEI/10.13039/50110001103 i FEDER, UE. The aim of the project is to understand the logical bases of human thought. The position is for 3 months.

The Postdoctoral Researcher will join a multidisciplinary project team led by Luca Bonatti, director of the Reasoning and Infant Cognition lab, https://www.upf.edu/web/rico, Center for Brain and Cognition, https://www.upf.edu/web/cbc, Pompeu Fabra University, working on the project, “Seeing inferences: Behavioral, linguistic and neuropsychological evidence for primitives of thought (SI)”, project PID2022-136925NB-I00 /MCIN/AEI/10.13039/50110001103 i FEDER, UE. The aim of the project is to understand the logical bases of human thought. The position is for 3 months.

Tasks: 

Development of detailed case studies. Construction of nonverbal scenes that embody disjunctive reasoning and behavioral relationships, expanding our research to the conception of alternative possibilities. Conducting tests with children and adults with oculomotor and neuroimaging techniques to look for signatures of logical representations and inferences induced by passive inspection of simple scenes based on previous results. 

Understand the nature of the representations evoked by simple nonverbal disjunctive reasoning in children and adults 

Describe the dynamics of brain activation evoked by simple nonverbal reasoning using magnetoencephalography and eye-tracking techniques

Requirements: 

• Advanced knowledge in cognitive neuroscience, a PhD in Information and Communication Technologies or similar is preferred.

• Demonstrable experience (publications) on the research topics, especially on the nature of propositional reasoning, oculometry techniques applied to nonverbal reasoning and neuroimaging techniques:

  o 1. Understanding the nature of the representations elicited by simple nonverbal disjunctive reasoning, in infants and adults (EEG/Oculomotor experiments)

  o 2. Describing the dynamics of brain activation elicited by simple nonverbal reasoning

• High level of English written and spoken.   

• Knowledge of R, Psyscope, PsychoPy. 

Experienced researcher or 4-10 yrs( Post graduate)

Recognised Researcher (R2) (PhD holders or equivalent who are not yet fully independent)

Project: Seeing inferences: Behavioral, linguistic and neuropsychological evidence for primitives of thought Referència:   PID2022-136925NB-I00 /MCIN/AEI/10.13039/50110001103 i FEDER, UE Institució: MCIN/AEI i FEDER, UE 

Full-time. 37.5h/weekly. 40.949,88€ annual gross.

Starting date: 01/10/25

Qualifications

Selection criteria-

1. Academic training: 0-20 points.

2. Professional experience/Adaptation to the proposed profile: 0-60 points.

3. Other merits: 0-20 points.

The minimum score to pass the selection process is: 60

Application Instructions

Through Interfolio

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