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Research Opportunities for Undergraduates •Announcing A New International Research Opportunity for Penn State Undergraduate Students Who Are Non‐US citizens. Click here for more information. •Announcing International Research Opportunities for Summer 2012 for Penn State Undergraduate Students. Click here for more information. •If you missed the Information session for potential PIRE undergraduate applicants, please contact pireundergrads@gmail.com •To learn more about PIRE: Bilingualism, mind, and brain: An interdisciplinary program in cognitive psychology, linguistics, and cognitive neuroscience, please visit PIRE website DEADLINE EXTENSION: Deadline to apply for PIRE Undergraduate Fellowships for Summer 2012 has been extended to Monday December 05th, 2011. Information on eligibility requirements can be found here |
Announcement
Announcing opening for CLS Neuroscience Post Doctoral Position. Click here for more information. The position is open to all eligible candidates regardless of citizenship. Applicants should send a CV, several reprints or preprints, and a statement of research interests, to pirepostdoc@gmail.com. For fullest consideration, all materials should be received by December 1, 2011.
Congratulations to the 2011-12 recipients of the Adele Miccio Memorial Travel Award! Colleen Balukas will visit Dr. James Walker at York University and Dr. Naomi Nagy at the University of Toronto, and Joe Bauman will visit Dr. David Pharies and Dr. Jessi Aaron at the University of Florida.
Notices
•The Center for Language Science labs have moved to Thomas Building basement.
•The time of the CLS weekly meetings has changed for the Fall 2011.
CLS Weekly Meetings: Fridays 9-10:30am in 102 Thomas Building
(Please note the change in location)
Refer to the meeting schedule for more details
Everyone is welcome to participate!
Info of Partnership for International Research and Education (PIRE)
About Us
The Center for Language Science, located in the Thomas Building, is an interdisciplinary group of linguists, psycholinguists, applied linguists, speech-language pathologists, speech scientists, and cognitive neuroscientists who share an interest in language acquisition and bilingualism.
Our research focuses on language science from a diverse set of perspectives. These include:
- typical language development
- atypical language development
- psycholinguistics
- cognitive neuroscience
Using sophisticated behavioral and neuroscience methods such as eye tracking, acoustic analysis, and electrophysiological recording of brain activity, members of the CLS seek to learn about the inner workings of language with a special focus on bilingualism.
The CLS meets weekly to discuss research, read papers together, share new methodological developments, and practice giving conference talks. One of our main goals is to foster collaborative research projects across the disciplines.
The CLS includes affiliated researchers around the world.? Our many national and international collaborations bring distinguished visitors to the Penn State campus, and provide opportunities for our students to gain valuable research experience at other U.S. universities as well as in other countries.?The CLS is an affiliate of the NSF Science of Learning Center at Gallaudet University, opening up further opportunities for collaboration in deaf studies, translation, and sign languages.?
Support for the CLS is provided from within Penn State by the Children, Youth, and Families Consortium; The College of the Liberal Arts; and the College of Health and Human Development. Funding for individual faculty and graduate students is provided by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Structure of CLS
The Center for Language Science resides within the Colleges of Liberal Arts and Health and Human Development. It is governed by an internal faculty advisory committee and also an external advisory board. The composition of each of these groups reflects the cross-disciplinary approaches that characterize the CLS.
The Internal Faculty Advisory Committee
Director of the Center for Language Science
Professor Judith Kroll - jfk7@psu.edu
(Department of Psychology)
Associate Co-Directors of the Center for Language Science
Professor Giuli Dussias - pdussias@psu.edu
(Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese)
Professor Carol Miller - cam47@psu.edu
(Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders)
Director of the Linguistics Program
Professor Janet van Hell - jgv3@psu.edu
(Department of Psychology)
The External Advisory Board
The advisory board for the CLS comprises four internationally-renowned researchers each representing our various disciplines.
Professor Margaret Deuchar
Director, ESRC Centre for Research on Bilingualism
University of Wales, Bangor
Professor Karen Emmorey
Director, Laboratory for Language and Cognitive Neuroscience
San Diego State University
Professor Laurence Leonard
Rachel E. Stark Distinguished Professor
Purdue University
Professor John Trueswell
Director of the IGERT Language and Communication Program
University of Pennsylvania