Doctoral Students Disability Research within the new area of Cognitive Hearing Science (CHS)

Linköping University - HEAD Graduate School on HEaring And Deafness

The positions are located at the Linnaeus Centre HEAD (LCH, www.headcentre.se) which is an excellence centre financed by the Swedish Research Council. LCH interacts synergistically with the HEAD graduate school (HGS, www.ihv.se/head). The organizational abode of the LCH/HGS is the Swedish Institute for Disability Research (SIDR, www.ihv.se), administratively located at the Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning (IBL), Linköping university.

Cognitive Hearing Science is a new, interdisciplinary field that focuses on how hearing-impaired and deaf people deploy cognitive resources to communicate in realistic, everyday situations. We will chart and model the dynamic interplay in the nervous system between human cognition and auditory signal processing, both aided and unaided. The proposed research will investigate how the brain constructs meaning from degraded and distorted input signals, and how brain plasticity varies in relation to the developmental trajectories of cognition and language across the lifespan. The communicative consequences of available sensory modality (visual, auditory and audiovisual) and preferred language modality (sign and speech) are studied at neural, cognitive and social levels of analysis to ensure robust modelling of necessary and sufficient stages of processing and adequacy of levels of description. The malleability of the sensory-cognitive interface is addressed in targeted intervention studies.

We welcome applications to one or more positions in the following specific areas (institutional affiliation within parenthesis). If you apply for more than one position - please rank them.

1. Speech understanding in noise (2 positions x 100%, one at University of Gävle and one at IBL)
2. Cognitive and linguistic development in children with cochlear implants/hearing aids (100%, IBL)
3. Speech as a masker in spoken communication - Technical audiology (100%, Technical audiology, IKE, Linköping University)
4. Neuroimaging of tinnitus and tinnitus-related cognitive functions (100%, IBL)
5. Longitudinal aspects of cognition and hearing (100%, IBL)
6. Internet-based hearing screening and cognitive testing (100%, IBL)

Starting date As soon as possible.

Salary
The starting salary for doctoral students is based on IBL's salary scale. The starting salary for a doctoral student in 2010 is currently 20 750 SEK/month.

To Apply and for further information: http://www.liu.se/en/job/show.html?3821