Research appointment (pre-doc)
11/PSIC-01 - General Psychology, Neuropsychology And Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychometrics
Uni. Pavia
Posted on: 29/07/2026
Deadline: 15/09/2026
2026-IdrDip-01-DBBS - Cognitive maps across language and space
The research activity will focus on the design, implementation,and validation of experimental paradigms aimed atinvestigating the contribution of linguistic representations tocognitive processes. Specifically, the project will examine therole of semantic representations derived from distributionalsemantic models in mental representations and cognitiveconflict. The activity will include the design of experimentalprotocols, the collection and analysis of behavioral andelectroencephalographic (EEG) data, and the integration ofcomputational and neurocognitive measures to characterize therelationship between language, mental representations, andcognitive control
Selection process
The application for admission to the selection procedure (dated and signed),the documents and publications considered useful for the evaluation must be submitted, under penalty of exclusion, electronically, by visiting the following web page: https://pica.cineca.it/unipv/tipologia/idr selecting the Competition Notice you have chosen. In order to register with the system, you must have an email address. Following the guidelines published in the procedure, the applicant must enter all the information required for the application, enclosing all documents in electronic .PDF format. The selection of candidates is carried out on the basis of qualifications and possible interview (with test of knowledge of the foreign language) (see Art. 1 par. 1 Call for applications).
The public call with detailed attendance and selection rules (Art 4 and 6) can be found at: https://pica.cineca.it/unipv/tipologia/idrThe selections are open to candidates, Italian or foreigner, in possession, on the date of the deadline for submitting applications for the admission to the selection, of a master's degree or single-cycle, degree obtained no more than six years previously are eligible to participate in the selection process. These degrees must be relevant to the subject of the research activity. Further specific assessable qualifications (see Art. 1 par. 1 Call for applications):Post-graduate research experience in the topics covered by thisprocedure; presence of indexed publications