Early Stage Researcher position (11): Visual perception and signed oral language in deafness

Marie Curie Initial Training Network LanPercept invites applications for an Early Stage Researcher (ESR) available from September 1st, 2013 and up to three years duration at the Individual Differences, Language and Cognition Lab in the Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Seville, Seville, Spain. Applicants should hold an MSc/MA (or 4 year honors Bachelor degree – 300 ECTS) in Psychology, Linguistics, Psycholinguistics or Cognitive Psychology. Please, see general eligibility criteria and mobility rules at www.lanpercept.eu.

Content of the Project

The project will investigate the relationship between language and perception, but applied to a group of people (deaf participants) whose perception is predominantly visual, even when it applies to the oral language. The project will use paradigms based on eye movement methodology. The tasks of the ESR involve: To work with deaf people, to carry out background testing of language development and non-verbal IQ with standardized tests of deaf and hearing children, adolescents and adults, to follow recruitment through schools, support groups and deaf associations, to implement the eye-tracking methodology to determine which zone (lipreading, facialreading or hands) receives more attention while comprehending different signed messages, to design the experimental tasks, to collect data and to disseminate the results.

Iniciamos este nuevo proyecto de formación de estudiantes de doctorado y postdoctorales. Financiado por el Programa PEOPLE del 7º Programa Marco de la Unión Europea y coordinado por la NTNU (Trondheim - Noruega), incorpora a ocho universidades de toda Europa, una empresa privada y un socio clínico. Desarrolla una aproximación multidisciplinar a las relaciones bidireccionales entre el lenguaje y la percepción.