FUNDED PHD CANDIDATE POSITION – LANGUAGE AND MEMORY CONTROL Group- AT THE BCBL

The Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastián (Basque Country, Spain) is offering a 4-year funded PhD opportunity. The position is not linked to a specific project; the PhD student will work on research projects within the Language and Memory Control (LMC) research group research lines. Some of the main research questions we are working on at the LMC group include neurobiological basis of reading in typical and atypical populations, brain plasticity and language systems, language and memory interactions, thalamocortical contributions to language and other cognitive processes (working memory, attention, etc.), and neuroimaging methods. The LMC research team is conformed by researchers with different backgrounds (physics, engineering, linguistic related fields, neuroscience, psychology, mathematic, chemistry). We welcome background diversity, so research questions can be tackle from different complementary angles. Other research topics addressed in the LMC group are: Domain-general and domain-specific neuroanatomical basis of creativity, involvement of subcortical regions and networks on language systems, visual pathways involvement in reading, altered brain function and structure in Parkinson’s disease, neural basis of the testing effect, differences and communalities of the episodic and semantic memory systems, production versus planning in speech production.

Job description: The selected candidate will be involved in developing and running behavioral and neuroimaging (MRI) experiments, analyzing data, and disseminating the results in scientific conferences (presentations/posters) and peer-reviewed journals. The selected candidate will also have the opportunity to develop original experiments under the supervision and guidance of the PI.