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Dear Auditory Colleagues: Applications are invited for a full-time Postdoctoral Research Scholar to work in the world class research environment of the Cochlear Implant Research Center at the University of Iowa. The Postdoctoral Scholar will contribute to projects
that examine real time language processing and how it changes longitudinally after hearing interventions (with both Cochlear Implants and Hearing Aids). The goal is to understand how listeners with hearing impairment may adapt mechanisms of language processing
from cognitive science to the unique challenges they face. This position is part of a larger NIDCD funded P50 project that examines the role of peripheral processing, cortical (re)organization, and higher-order language processing on audiological and real-world outcomes of individuals with hearing
impairment. The successful candidate will work in a highly interdisciplinary and collaborative team to spearhead research on the real-time dynamics of language processing and how this changes with experience with a hearing device. Research will be conducted
primarily with eye-tracking in the visual world paradigm, but with opportunities for close collaboration with labs using source localized EEG, real-world listening measures, and measures of the auditory periphery. The project will test a large cohort of hearing-impaired
listeners including cochlear implant users, hearing aid users, and individuals using unique hearing preservation cochlear implants that combine electric and acoustic hearing. Over the last 30 years, the Iowa Cochlear Research Center has built an efficient
infrastructure for recruiting and scheduling subjects that allows testing a large number of hearing impaired participants with minimal administrative burden for researchers. The candidate will be involved in all stages of the research: He/she will be involved
in designing experiments, supervising research assistants for data collection, analyzing data, preparing reports, and disseminating the results. The project leader is Bob McMurray. For more information, please contact Bob McMurray (bob-mcmurray@xxxxxxxxx). To apply, please go to: https://jobs.uiowa.edu/jobSearch/postdocDetailDisplay.php?requisitionNumber=2962 |