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 6 months.

The researcher will work on the following tasks: • Development of detailed case studies. Construction of non-verbal scenes that embody disjunctive reasoning and behavioral relationships, expanding our research to the conception of alternative possibilities. Testing with children and adults using oculomotor and neuroimaging techniques to search for signatures of logical representations and inferences induced by passive inspection of simple scenes based on previous results. • 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 with the use of magnetoencephalography and eye tracking techniques

Requirements

• Advanced knowledge of cognitive neuroscience, valued Doctor of Information and Communication Technologies or similar.

• Demonstrable experience (publications) on research topics, especially on the nature of propositional reasoning, oculometry techniques applied to nonverbal reasoning, and neuroimaging techniques: o Understanding the nature of the representations elicited by simple nonverbal disjunctive reasoning, in infants and adults (EEG/Oculomotor experiments) o Describing the dynamics of brain activation elicited by simple nonverbal reasoning

• Good level of English, written and oral. Good knowledge of R, Psyscope, PsychoPy.

Experienced researcher or 4-10 yrs( Post graduate).

Research profiles: Recognised Researcher (R2) (PhD holders or equivalent who are not yet fully independent).

Type of contract: permanent, full-time, 37.5h.

Envisaged job starting date: 01/01/2025

Qualifications

Selection criteria:

Academic qualifications: 0 - 20 points

Professional experience / suitability to the proposed profile: 0 - 60 points

Other merits: 0 - 20 points

The minimum score to pass the selection process is: 60 points

Application Instructions

Through Interfolio

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