<font face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><div><div><br></div><div><div style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: "Default Sans Serif", Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><b style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;"></b></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><b style="box-sizing: inherit;">2 PhD openings in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience in Zurich, Switzerland</b></div><div style="box-sizing: inherit;"><p class="Betreff" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="box-sizing: inherit;">We are recruiting two PhD candidates to join the Computational Neuroscience of Speech & Hearing research group <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.cl.uzh.ch/en/phonetics/neuro.html" title="https://www.cl.uzh.ch/en/phonetics/neuro.html" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer;">https://www.cl.uzh.ch/en/phonetics/neuro.html</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="box-sizing: inherit;"> at the University of Zurich in Switzerland. The PhD positions are funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation as part of a larger project <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="http://p3.snf.ch/Project-185715" title="http://p3.snf.ch/Project-185715" style="box-sizing: inherit; cursor: pointer;">http://p3.snf.ch/Project-185715</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="box-sizing: inherit;">.</span></p><p class="Betreff" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;"></span></p><p class="Betreff" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="box-sizing: inherit;">2 open PhD positions @University of Zurich:</span></p><p class="Betreff" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><b style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="box-sizing: inherit;">PhD position 1: (Sub)cortical speech processing in older adults in health and disease.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="box-sizing: inherit;"></span></b></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit;"></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit;"></p><p class="Betreff" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="box-sizing: inherit;">PhD project 1 will focus on the influence of age-related cognitive impairment (e.g., due to Alzheimer’s disease) on speech perception and neural speech processing at different stages from the brainstem up to the cortex and explore the association between age-related hearing loss and cognition in this population. The goal is to better understand the role of hearing impairment in cognitive decline within an aging population, as recent data suggests that hearing impairment is a strong risk factor for dementia.</span></p><p class="Betreff" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><b style="box-sizing: inherit;">PhD position 2: Audiovisual language processing training in naturalistic settings for older hearing impaired. </b></span></p><p class="Betreff" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="box-sizing: inherit;">PhD project 2 will focus on developing naturalistic settings to measure audiovisual speech processing in older adults with hearing impairment, using virtual realities combined with EEG, enriched audiovisual stimulation, and real environmental noises. The goal is to create more engaging, relevant, and beneficial auditory-cognitive trainings for hearing impaired.</span></p><p class="Betreff" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit;"></span></p><p class="Betreff" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><span lang="EN-US" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><b style="box-sizing: inherit;">Your main responsibilities:</b></span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit;"></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit;"></p><p class="Betreff" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";">         </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Plan, design, and run the EEG experiments</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit;"></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit;"></p><p class="Betreff" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span lang="EN-US" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-family: Symbol;">·<span style="box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";">         </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="box-sizing: inherit;">Analyses of behavioral, neuropsychological, and brain data</span></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit;"></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit;"></p><p class="Betreff" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: 0.5in; text-indent: -0.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