Stages et Postdocs

Here is a list of scientific projects partly begun or about to start at LSCP, for which we are seeking to recruit students/researchers at various academic levels. Funding is not necessarily already available on any of these projects, but can be applied for once a candidate is identified.

All projects take place at LSCP, Paris, France, unless otherwise mentioned. To express your interest in any of these projects, please contact the scientist in charge.

Theme

Level

Scientist in charge

Languages in contact: the propagation of loanwords and diachronic changes.
Background in mathematical modeling required (no background in linguistics required).

Postdoc researcher

Peperkamp

Anatomical brain imaging of dyslexic and language impaired individuals. Experience required in volumetric, morphometric and/or diffusion tensor analyses. (no specific funding available)

Postdoc researcher

Ramus and Zilbovicius (SHFJ Orsay)

Automatic segmentation of continuous speech and learning of discrete phonetic categories by the infant: Modeling and simulations on speech corpora.
Background in programming and signal processing essential.

Postdoc or PhD or Master student

Dupoux

Reeducation of perception in the late bilingual: Experimental studies of the learning and use of foreign contrasts (phonemes, lexical stress, phonological rules). Optionally, brain imaging studies.

Postdoc or PhD or Master student

Dupoux

Acquisition of the phonological grammar: algorithms and simulations.
Background in statistics required (no background in linguistics required).

Postdoc or PhD student

Peperkamp

Early lexical and syntactic acquisition: the role of phrasal prosody and function words in acquiring word meanings. Experiments (infants and adults); corpus analyses.

PhD or Master Student

Christophe

Neuropsychology of spoken language processing: deficit and recovery of comprehension and production in aphasics. Interest in clinical research, background in neurology, psychology or biology all relevant. Good French required.

PhD or Master Student

Dupoux and Bachoud-Lévi (Hôpital Henri-Mondor)

Psychological bases of moral sense: Experimental studies on babies and adults on mechanisms of evaluation of intentional actions.

PhD or Master Student

Dupoux and Jacob (Institut Jean Nicod)

Subliminal perception (visual and spoken words). Contrast of conscious
vs. unconscious processing. Role of central processes in the integration of
domain-specific information.

PhD or Master Student

Kouider and Dupoux

Brain imaging (fMRI and ERP-s) of conscious vs. unconscious
perception. Time-course and levels of processing for subliminal and
pre-attentive information in the brain.

PhD or Master Student

Kouider

Link between subliminal perception, repetition blindness and
cross-modal processing.

PhD or Master Student

Kouider and Dupoux

Link and interactions between linguistic and conceptual acquisition in
young infants.

PhD or Master Student

Kouider

Acquisition of phonology: experimental studies with adults and/or infants.

PhD or Master Student

Peperkamp

Genetic studies of dyslexia and specific language impairment. This project concerns the cognitive phenotype, but in relation to the genotype.

PhD or Master student

Ramus

Analyses of speech production in developmental dyslexia. Background in phonetics or psycholinguistics desirable. French native speaker preferred.

PhD or Master student

Ramus