Project description:

The research assistant will join a multidisciplinary project team led by Nuria Sebastian, director of the Speech Acquisition and Perception lab, https://www.upf.edu/web/sap, Center for Brain and Cognition, https://www.upf.edu/web/cbc, Pompeu Fabra Univeristy. The project aims at understanding how exposure to language uniquely shapes how humans process speech. The project bridges two different lines of research: Neural Models of Language Entrainment and Psycholinguistic models of the perception of prosody. The project explores the research questions:

Q1. How does language-specific sensitivity to prosodic knowledge emerge? The ITL law

Q2. How does articulatory/motor information affect entrainment? Processing of audiovisual speech

The position is part of the Spanish national project “Learning the sound of language (LESOLA) (Aprendiendo el sonido de la lengua), ref: PID2021-123416NB I00/MICIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/FEDER, UE, financed by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICIN) and the State Research Agency (AEI) and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER)



(Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, la Agencia Estatal de Investigación y el Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional).

Main research field: Psychology

Tasks to be performed:

The research assistant will:

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Assist with EEG data collection (adults and infants).

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Assure EEG studies with infants are efficiently run, which will help minimize the attrition rate.

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Assist with fNIRS or fDCS data collection. Experience with data from infant populations will be a plus.

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Preliminary data analysis.

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Assist with article writing.

Group and complement: Group 3 Level u

Dedication and working hours: Part time (22,5h/week).

Planned remuneration approx: 18.434,56 € gross per year

Line of research: Line of research of the Research Group SAP.

Financing fund:

Initial project: Projecte PRESP04122 - PID2021-123416NB-I00/MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/FEDER, UE, “Aprendiendo el sonido d

📌 DTIC--01 - Specialist support technician: Research Support LESOLA project, Nuria Sebastian Lab (Barcelona)
🏢 Pompeu Fabra University
📍 Barcelona