Come and join the Speech Perception in Audiovisual Communication lab (SPEAC https://hrbosker.github.io) at the Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands! Three year contract; 0.8 FTE. Gross monthly salary: min €3,974 - max €5,439 (based on 38-hour working week; scale 11).
Position 1
You will test both the production and perception of gesture-speech alignment in nine different languages, including free-stress, fixed-stress, and lexical tone languages, using motion-tracking of 2D videos in Mediapipe and acoustic analyses in Praat. See link for full details.
Position 2
You will use rapid invisible frequency tagging (RIFT) in MEG to pinpoint the neurobiological mechanisms underlying gesture-speech integration. Specifically, you will test how simple up-and-down beat gestures influence lexical stress perception in real time, using the 'manual McGurk effect' (Bosker & Peeters, 2021, Proc Roy Soc B), testing both typical and autistic individuals.
Application deadline: 1 December 2022. Preferred starting date: 1 March 2023.