Funded PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience and Language: Speech Comprehension, Multilingualism and Listening Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language in Spain

The Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) is recruiting a PhD researcher to join Nicola Molinaro’s Brain Rhythms and Cognition group in Donostia–San Sebastián, Spain. The PRO-LISTEN project examines how the adult brain adapts to learning and understanding an additional language. The research focuses on Spanish and Basque and uses naturalistic speech, longitudinal magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings and computational modelling to investigate language-related brain dynamics ove...

Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Department of Translation and Language Sciences) is recruiting a fully funded PhD candidate for the ERC Advanced Grant PROSODY-SENSES: Prosody across senses . The position is titled PhD Position 6: Multisensory Prosody in Portuguese Sign Language and is based in Barcelona, Spain, with a cotutelle arrangement between Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the University of Lisbon . The project sits at the intersection of linguistics , experimental phonetics , cognitive science , a...

Brendan Costello is recruiting a fully funded PhD student to join the Sign Language Research Group at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) in Donostia–San Sebastián, Spain . The project is part of a new Spanish Research Agency-funded initiative that brings together sign language research , computer vision , artificial intelligence , pose estimation , and motion capture . The work aims to analyze sign language data and develop tools that improve understanding of how sign lang...

PhD opportunity at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, within the ERC Advanced Grant PROSODY-SENSES and the Prosodic and Gestural Studies Research Group (GREPG). The project is titled Multisensory Prosody in Spoken European Portuguese and focuses on how prominence and grouping are realized across speech, facial movements, head movements, manual gestures, and hand pressure signals. The successful candidate will work on controlled production experiments and multimodal corpora, combining ...

IDEALAB is inviting applications for its next PhD cohort in the International Doctorate for Experimental Approaches to Language And Brain. This is a fully funded joint doctoral programme with a shared curriculum and research training leading to a joint PhD degree. The advertised projects span language and brain research topics such as infant speech perception , aphasia treatment , reading neurocognition , and related experimental approaches. The programme is especially relevant for students inte...