Research Assistant Ref 20854
School/department: Psychology
Hours: Full-time. Requests for flexible working options will be considered (subject to business need).
Location: Brighton, United Kingdom
Contract: fixed term for 12 months
Reference: 20854
Salary: starting at £32,411 to £36,333 per annum, pro rata if part-time
Placed on: 05 June 2023
Closing date: 03 July 2023. Applications must be received by midnight of the closing date.
Expected Interview date: To be confirmed
Expected start date: From 4th September
Job description
We are seeking a research assistant to join an exciting one-year research project examining how our brains use top-down mechanisms to predict upcoming words in speech (‘predictive coding’). The project will use electroencephalography (EEG) recordings of brain activity from healthy volunteers.
The project is funded by a BIAL Foundation grant awarded to Dr Ediz Sohoglu. The post-holder will join the Auditory Cognition Group, which conducts research into the psychology and neuroscience of how we listen, with a particular focus on speech perception.
The project will take place at the University of Sussex, using the on-campus EEG facilities within the School of Psychology. The post-holder will join the highly collaborative and interdisciplinary Sussex Neuroscience research community, which includes over 50 research groups, forming one of the highest densities of Neuroscience faculty in any UK University.
The post-holder will support Dr Sohoglu in the day-to-day running of the project, including participant recruitment, data collection and management, and analysis.
The post is likely to be of most interest to applicants with research interests in perception and language, studied using methods from cognitive neuroscience (e.g. EEG or other neuroimaging method). The post-holder should have experience in the acquisition of EEG data. Experience of EEG data analysis is desirable.
Please contact Dr Ediz Sohoglu (e.sohoglu@sussex.ac.uk ) for informal enquiries.
The University is committed to equality and valuing diversity, and applications are particularly welcomed from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Science, Technology, Engineering, Medicine and Mathematics (STEMM) at Sussex.
You can find out more about our values and our EDI Strategy, Inclusive Sussex, on our webpages.
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