Postdoctoral Research Associate (Fixed Term)

We are seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Research Associate (PDRA) in auditory cognitive neuroscience based at the CBU (with its transition into CMBI). The PDRA will work on a Wellcome Trust funded project led by Dr Guangting Mai studying the neural basis of audiovisual speech processing in adult cochlear implant (CI) users. Main advisors/collaborators include Drs Matt Davis and Bob Carlyon (CBU) and Prof Doug Hartley (Nottingham BRC). The project aims to study how different sensory modalities (audition and vision) work together to support day-to-day speech comprehension by CI users. We also aim to address an imminent and critical clinical question of whether processing of visual speech (talker's lip movement during face-to-face communication) is associated with adaptative or maladaptative changes in auditory processing and audiovisual integration of speech during CI rehabilitation.