Missions

This position is funded by Carnot Cognition and focuses on the importance and recognition of gestures in social cognition. The successful candidate will participate in setting up studies, collecting data, annotating gestures, and programming (in tandem with a post-doc).

Activités

Activity 1: Data processing. Coding and transcribing audio and video recordings, and coordinating students (M/F) also involved in this task, in tandem with the postdoctoral researcher (M/F) recruited for the project and under the supervision of the project leader.
Activity 2: Participating in the recruitment of schools involved in this study, in tandem with other team members.
Managing the schedule of visits in tandem with school teachers and the research team.
Participating in communication and prospecting for new volunteers for the project (organizing events, producing and distributing flyers, communicating on social media, newsletters, etc.).
Participating in the organization and facilitation of weekly project meetings.
Participate in the preparation of agreements with our research partners and the preparation of ethical reviews for conducting research with infants and children.
Activity 3: Collect data within the LPNC, in schools, and at the Babylab, which requires prior experience in research with infants and children.
Activity 4: Setting up behavioral tasks on a computer with or without an eye tracker.
Preparation of stimuli for experiments, especially recordings and video editing, as well as preparation of photos—previous experience with video editing and image editing will be valued.
Activity 5: Programming/machine learning (optional)
Explore whether manual annotations can be used to train a semi-automatic model capable of annotating different aspects of the gesture.

Compétences

Knowledge/skills: A master's degree in cognitive science, psychology, or language science/linguistics, solid research experience with infants and/or young children, and an interest in issues related to communication and social cognition.

Skills: Good organizational and coordination skills. Experience with video recording and editing would be a plus. Good knowledge of programming tools (Matlab, R, or Python) is desirable.

Interpersonal skills: Solid experience and ease in dealing with infants, young children, and their parents is required, as well as a good understanding of the ethical issues involved in this type of research.
Previous experience in coordination and teamwork would be an advantage.

Contexte de travail

The Laboratory of Psychology and NeuroCognition (LPNC UMR-CNRS UGA 5105) is a cognitive science research unit affiliated with the CNRS (National Institute for Biological Sciences, Section 26, Language Sciences, Section 34) and two universities (Grenoble-Alpes University, Grenoble, and Savoie Mont Blanc University, Chambéry). The LPNC currently has 54 permanent staff and a total of 109 people including contract staff. The approach adopted is interdisciplinary and encompasses experimental psychology, computer and mathematical modeling, neuropsychology, cognitive psychiatry, and neuroimaging. The LPNC's research activities focus on the study of human cognition in the areas of perception, action, space, memory, and language. The research conducted at the LPNC will focus on the link between multimodal attention and language development.

Contraintes et risques

Nothing