LINGUIST List 25.2838
Mon
Jul 07 2014
Summer Schools: Methods
in Language Comprehension / Rovereto,
Italy
Editor for this issue:
Malgorzata Cavar <gosialinguistlist.org>
Date: 07-Jul-2014
From: Francesco Vespignani
<francesco.vespignani
unitn.it>
Subject: Methods in Language
Comprehension / Rovereto, Italy
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Methods in Language Comprehension
Host Institution: Università degli Studi di
Trento
Coordinating Institution: Università degli
Studi di Trento
Website:
http://www.unitn.it/mlc2014
Dates: 13-Nov-2014 - 16-Nov-2014
Location: Rovereto, Italy
Focus: Methods in language comprehension: New
methods for studying comprehension in Cognitive
Science, Behavioral Science and
Neuroscience
Minimum Education Level: MA
Special Qualifications:
Participants must be enrolled in a Ph.D.
program or be in a post-doctoral position
having earned the doctoral degree no more than
5 years before the application deadline.
Students in their last year of Master’s studies
may also apply. A very good knowledge of
English is required. Prior knowledge or
experience with qualitative research in
behavioral or biological sciences is necessary.
Participants will be selected on the basis of
the strength of their CV, motivation statement
and supervisor’s support letter.
Description:
Applications are now open for a four-day autumn
school whose aim is to expose students to new
methods for analyzing language data collected
with behavioral and neuroscientific methods.
This year’s instructors (Emmanuel Keuleers,
Falk Huettig, Marcel Bastiaansen, Harald
Baayen) are experts in corpus-based analysis,
eye tracking, EEG, and ERP methods as applied
to complex language inputs. Each faculty will
present a theoretical module, conduct
small-group advisory discussions, and supervise
hands-on sessions where their analyses methods
will be implemented on sample datasets. The
target audience is post-docs, Ph.D students,
and advanced M.A. students involved in studying
language comprehension using behavioral
experiments, corpus-based tools,
electrophysiology, fMRI or combinations of
these techniques. Courses will be held in
English.
Information about the program, costs, and
application procedures is available on the
school’s website.
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
Neurolinguistics
Psycholinguistics
Tuition: 250.00 EUR
Tuition Explanation: The school is financially
supported by the University of Trento. The
registration fee is 250 Euros and covers 5
hotel nights, as well as lunch for each of the
school days. The registration fee is to be paid
only after notification of acceptance. The
registration fee will be waived for the
strongest applicant.
Registration: 21-Sep-2014 to 10-Oct-2014
Contact Person: Francesco Vespignani
Email: francesco.vespignani
unitn.it
Apply by Email: autumn.langschool
unitn.it
Registration Instructions:
Applications are open until September 8.
Registration: September 21 – October 10
Notification of acceptance: September 20.
Candidates should email the documents listed
below to the following email address:
autumn.langschool
unitn.it
1. Application form downloadable at
http://webmagazine.unitn.it/evento/cogsci/1317/autumn-school-methods-in-language-comprehension
2. Academic Curriculum vitae (max 1000 words in
no more than 2 pages) including any relevant
publications or conference presentations
3. Motivation letter which specifies in which
way this school may benefit their research aims
(max 400 words)
4. Support letter from a supervisor (max 400
words).
Page Updated: 07-Jul-2014