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RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION – SPOKEN LANGUAGE GROUP

Job Summary

The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language – BCBL- (Donostia-San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) is offering a 12-month full-time (or part-time) Research Assistant position in the Spoken Language group.

In our group, we use behavioral, eye-tracking, and electrophysiological experimental paradigms to study how humans process and learn spoken language.

Information about the project:

This project examines how lexical representations evolve, starting at the early encoding of novel words, moving on to the formation of newly-learned words, and finally the processing and plasticity of familiar words.

Job Description

The selected candidate’s tasks will be:

- Construction of experimental materials: Assistance with selecting linguistic stimuli, constructing auditory and visual stimuli, and building experimental scripts

- Participant recruitment: Contacting participants and scheduling of the experimental sessions

- Experimental data collection: Acquisition of behavioral and eye-tracking data

- Data pre-processing, data quality control, and data management (e.g., data back-up and storage)

Benefits

Salary: 19.200€ gross/year (to be adjusted as needed for part-time)

Entitlements and other benefits: https://www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/what-is-like-to-work-bcbl

Training opportunities and Career development plan:

Researchers at any stage of their career, regardless of their contractual situation, are given an opportunity for professional development and for improving their employability through access to a Personal Career Development Plan which includes

(1) Training through individually personalized research projects under senior supervision

(2) Exchanging knowledge with the scientific community and the general public

(3) Network-wide training in theory and methods

(4) Complementary training courses

(5) Involvement in proposal writing, task coordination

(6) Development of skills for the organization of training and scientific events

BCBL seeks to foster an environment where all talents can flourish, regardless of gender, sex, sexual orientation, age, sociocultural background, nationality or impairments. We are proud to have in place both an LGTBIQ+ Plan and a Gender Equality Plan to actively promote inclusion and equal opportunities. If you have any questions relating to accessibility or support, please contact us.

Comment/web site for additional job details

https://www.bcbl.eu/en/join-us/job-offers/research-assistant-position-spoken-language-group