Prof. Xiaoming Jiang is looking for an excellent and enthusiastic PhD student and/or a visiting PhD student through 2022-2023 China Studies Program (CSP) Ph.D. Fellowship to investigate the psychological, cognitive and communicative processes of speaking, comprehending and using the Chinese language and dialects and to communicate in the Chinese culture. A special interest is placed on exploring cross-linguistic and cross-cultural mechanisms underlying social interaction and social influence.
Professor Jiang’s lab combines behavioral, multimodal corpus, neurocognitive (fMRI, EEG, eye-tracking, mouse-tracking) and computational (Machine Learning) research to investigate how the brain enables us to speak, perceive and use language in a culturally-immersive social-communicative contexts. The lab is based at the Institute of Linguistics, Shanghai International Studies University. It has onsite access to neuroimaging facilities including the audiology booth, eye-tracker, high-density EEG and 3 T MRI.
Applicants should have a background in one of the following disciplines: linguistics, psychology, arts and performance, literature, education, psychiatry, communication sciences, neuroscience, medical science, computer science, physics, engineering or other related areas. A strong interest in cross-linguistic, cross-dialectal or cross-cultural comparisons that involve the Chinese language spectrum and the Chinese culture at a socio-affective-communicative level is strongly encouraged. For those who major in humanities (arts and performance, literature, education, etc.) must be interested in using empirical approaches for their research.
Applicants must demonstrate some level of Chinese before submitting the application (see fellowship requirement below). Prior experience in programming would be a plus but not required.
For further information, please get in touch with xiaoming.jiang@shisu.edu.cn
or see http://www.iol.shisu.edu.cn/jxm_10942/list.htm
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xiaoming-Jiang-3
For more information about 2022-2023 China Studies Program (CSP) Ph.D.
http://www.chinese.cn/page/#/pcpage/announcement?id=890&page=1
To apply for the fellowship, please go to
http://csp.chinese.cn/myDoip/login.html
For more information about Shanghai International Studies University
Xiaoming Jiang Ph.D. (PI of JIANG Lab) 