The UMass Boston BabyLab (babies.umb.edu) has an opening for a full-time, benefited Research Assistant starting in Fall 2012. The Babylab is a facility that integrates the research of three faculty members: Dr. Vivian Ciaramitaro, Dr. Zsuzsa Kaldy and Dr. Mohinish Shukla. The projects involve crossmodal processing, visual attention, memory and language development in infants and toddlers. The team conducts behavioral (eye-tracking), and neurophysiological (ERP and NIRS) studies.
Candidates should possess the following:
(1) Bachelor's degree in psychology, cognitive science or related field,
(2) one or more years of research experience,
(3) excellent computer skills,
(4) strong organizational, managerial, problem-solving and analytic skills.
Applicants with experience with packages such as E-Prime, MatLab and SPSS and/or working in an infant research laboratory are preferred.
The position is grant-funded, 30 hours per week, for the period of Sept 1, 2012 to August 31, 2013 with a possibility of renewal. The deadline for applications is June 12, 2012. To see further details and to apply, please go to:
http://umb.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=32498
