The Faculty of Psychology, Higher School of Economics (HSE, Moscow) is pleased to announce a number of post-doctoral and PhD student positions at the new research group for Cognitive Control, Communication and Perception, which is currently being established at HSE, Center for Neuroeconomics and Cognitive Studies. This new international group will operate in collaboration with the Centre of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience at Aarhus University (Denmark), Psychology Department at Northumbria University Newcastle (UK), and other international collaborators. Our key international coordinators are Professor Yury Shtyrov (Aarhus) and Dr Andriy Myachykov (Northumbria). The postholders will have an advantage of being able to further define and expand the newly established research program. Potential topics include (but are not limited to): neural dynamics of language comprehension, automaticity and top-down control in communication, sensory-motor integration in cognitive functions, embodied cognition, interactions between domain-specific and domain-general cognitive systems, neurocognitive bases of language acquisition, studies of communication deficits (e.g. aphasia) etc.

Research facilities include multi-channel EEG, navigated TMS-EEG and eye- tracking equipment, all recently installed at the Faculty, as well as local access to MEG, fMRI and a range of neurological populations.

The HSE is a young, dynamic, fast-growing Russian research university providing unique research opportunities (http://hse.ru/en,http://psy.hse.ru/en/ http://hse.ru/en,http:/psy.hse.ru/en/). The Faculty of Psychology is committed to developing various areas of modern experimental psychology and, most crucially, Cognitive Neuroscience. Working conditions:

- Access to multimodal neuroimaging facilities (brain-navigated TMS, multichanel EGG, MEG, eye-tracking, etc. http://psy.hse.ru/en/res-center)

- Internationally competitive salary, 13% flat income tax rate and other benefits

- Generous travel support and research grants provided by the University’s Centre for Advanced Studies (www.cas.hse.ru http://www.cas.hse.ru/)

- Low teaching load, minimal administrative service required

- Heavy emphasis on high quality research

Requirements for the PostDoc position: position

- Ph.D. in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, language sciences or related fields

- Fluent English (knowledge of Russian is not required)

- Demonstrated ability and high motivation to conduct high-quality research publishable in quality international peer-reviewed journals

Requirements for the PhD student position:

-MS degree in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, language sciences or related fields

- Fluent English (knowledge of Russian is not required)

- Demonstrated ability and high motivation to conduct high-quality research publishable in quality international peer-reviewed journals

Generally appointments will be made for an initial 2,5-year period and upon successful completion of an interim review, contracts would normally be extended for a further three years until the tenure review.

Please provide a CV, at least 2 letters of reference forwarded directly, a statement of research interest and a recent research paper. All materials should be addressed to Dr. Viсtoria Moiseeva, no later than June 20.

If you have any further questions, please contact Dr. Viсtoria Moiseeva vmoiseeva@hse.ru mailto:moiseeva.victoria@gmail.com

Best wishes,

Olga

Ph.D. Researcher Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology RAS +79268365593