Indiana University Bloomington

Postdoctoral Program


The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at IU offers a wide variety of postdoctoral training opportunities. The department holds 5 grants which utilize postdocs, as well as several individual laboratories that employ postdoctoral researchers from time to time.

Currently, the department has offerings in the following areas:


Clinical Science Postdoctoral Fellowship:


The Department of Psychology at Indiana University is seeking applicants for postdoctoral research traineeships in its clinical science training program funded by NIMH. Applicants should be committed to a research career focused on clinical problems, and will be expected to work in close collaboration with one of the established training program investigators. Clinical problems are approached from a variety of perspectives. The Training Program faculty include:

~ John E. Bates  Parent child relationships; social development; origins and treatment of childhood behavior problems.
Email John Bates

~Brian D'Onofrio  Developmental Psychopathology, causes of child and adolescent psychopathology and adjustment through two main approaches: genetically informed designs and longitudinal analyses.
Email Brian D'Onofrio

~ Peter Finn  Risk for alcoholism, familial alcoholism, antisocial behavior, biobehavioral models of disinhibitory psychopathology, psychophysiology.
Email Peter Finn

~ Preston Garraghty Electrophysiological, neuroanatomical, and neurochemical analyses of adult neural plasticity in cortical and subcortical structures, behavioral analysis of the effects of antiepileptic drugs on learning and memory, secondary interests include sensory system development and comparative neuroanatomy.
Email Preston Garraghty

~ Kenneth Heller  Social ties, depression and alcohol use among older adults; prevention; and training in community psychology.
Email Kenneth Heller

~ William Hetrick Brain-behavior relationships that underlie perceptual and attentional anomalies associated with schizophrenia and related disorders, intra-subject response variability, including neural frequency and phase synchronization, role of endogenous opioids in the self-injurious behavior, relevant methods include human brain (EEG, ERP) and skeletomotor (EMG) recordings, and clinical-neuropsychological assessment.
Email William Hetrick

~ Amy Holtzworth-Munroe  Marital violence, marital distress, marital therapy.
Email Amy Holtzworth-Munroe

~ John Kruschke Attention in human associative learning and connectionist models.
Email John Kruschke

~ Richard McFall  Social competence and social skill as factors in coping and psychopathology; behavioral assessment.
Email Richard McFall

~ Robert Nosofsky Categorization, similarity, recognition memory, mathematical psychology
Email Robert Nosofsky

~ Brian O'Donnell Event-related potential abnormalities in schizophrenia and related disorders, disturbances of early stage vision in schizophrenia and affective disorders, event-related potentials and risk for alcoholism.
Email Brian O'Donnell

~ David Pisoni Psycholinguistics, speech perception, production and synthesis, perceptual development, spoken language comprehension, voice I/O technology, human factors, hearing impairment, cochlear implants, individual differences, and multi-modal perception of speech.
Email David Pisoni

~ George Rebec Mechanisms of action of drugs of abuse, neurochemical correlates of movement and motivation, and real-time assessments of neurotransmitter function during behavior.
Email George Rebec

~ Richard Rose  Behavioral and medical genetics; behavioral medicine; individual and group differences.
Email Richard Rose

~ Dale Sengelaub Development of the nervous system, plasticity of neural structure and function.
Email Dale Sengelaub

~ James Townsend Development of general mathematical approaches to human information processing and cognitive psychology including visual pattern recognition, especially face perception, memory scanning, decision theory and human factors.
Email James Townsend

~ Richard Viken  Antisocial behavior; social interaction; family process; behavioral medicine.
Email Richard Viken

~ Cara Wellman Age-related changes in neural plasticity and their relationship to cognition, neurochemical and morphological correlates of uncontrollable and controllable stress.
Email Cara Wellman

Potential applicants can direct inquiries to the program faculty listed above or may request more detailed information from:
Richard Viken
Department of Psychology
1101 East 10th Street
Bloomington, IN 47405.

Applications will be accepted on a rolling admissions basis and can start at any time. A completed application includes a vitae, three letters of recommendation, and a statement of research interests.


Multidisciplinary Training in Developmental Process:


The multidisciplinary research training program in development emphasizes the integrative study of processes of change in human and nonhuman animals.

This program focuses on the interactional processes of normal and non-normal development from a broad perspective. The goal of training is to produce scientists able to cut across existing disciplines to conduct research on the basic science of development, and to design and implement theoretically and empirically sound programs of diagnosis and intervention.

Training


Pre- and postdoctoral trainees will conduct research into normal and atypical development in infants, young children and animal models. They will gain general knowledge in the developmental process as it relates to a variety of areas including, but not limited to language and social development at multiple levels of analyses: from molecular neuroscience to group behavior in humans and animals.

In addition to direct research experience, trainees take required core and specialized courses, attend weekly Developmental Process Seminars designed to implement common training goals, and Research Seminars where research plans and results are presented to the training group as a whole.

Training Faculty


The program's nineteen core faculty members are from the areas of Psychology, Kinesiology, Speech and Hearing Sciences, Optometry and Computer Science. All have a strong commitment to development research that is biologically sound, integrative and creative. Many collaborative projects are currently in progress based on these mutual goals. Trainees will be strongly encouraged to move among laboratories to learn a wide range of new skills. The twenty core faculty members and their laboratories are briefly described below.

Linda Smith - Cognitive Development Laboratory
Raquel Anderson - Bilingual Developmental Laboratory
John Bates - Social Development Laboratory
Geoffrey Bingham - Perception and Action Laboratory
Thomas Busey - Laboratory
Rowan Candy Brian D'Onofrio - Developmental Psychopathology Lab
Karen Forrest - Speech Acoustics Laboratory
Preston Garraghty - Placticity and Learning Laboratory
Michael Gasser - Grounded Concepts Laboratory
Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe - IU Baby Language Laboratory
Robert Goldstone - Percepts and Concepts Laboratory
Michael Jones - Computational Language and Cognition Lab
Susan Jones - Infant Social Communication Laboratory
Sharlene Newman - Cognitive NeuroImaging Laboratory
Dale Sengelaub - Developmental Neuralbiology Laboratory
Olaf Sporns - Computational Cognitive Neuralscience Laboratory
Meredith West - Vocal and Communicative Development Laboratory
Chen Yu - Computational Cognition and Learning Laboratory

To Apply


To apply for a predoctoral position, contact your "home" department for an application to their Ph.D. program. When completing your application, be sure that you state that you are interested in the Multidisciplinary Training in Developmental Process, c/o Charlotte Wozniak, Department of Psychology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405.

To apply for a postdoctoral position, send a vitae, statement of research interests, preprints or publications and three letters of recommendation to the address above. Please indicate at least two laboratories of interest.

Please note that both the pre- and postdoctoral positions are only available to U.S. citizens or permanent residents. If you have additional questions feel free to contact Charlotte Wozniak, Email Charlotte Wozniak or call 812-855-8256.

 

Training Program in Speech, Hearing and Sensory Communication


The NIH interdisciplinary postdoctoral training program in Speech, Hearing and Sensory Communication at Indiana University provides financial support to qualified PhD's and MD's who wish to further their background and training in any of the following areas of basic and clinical research:

  • Speech Perception, Production, and Spoken Word Recognition
  • Auditory Psychophysics, Hearing Science, and Experimental Audiology
  • Tactile Psychophysics and Communication
  • Acoustic and Articulatory Phonetics, Laboratory Phonology
  • Sensory, Perceptual, and Cognitive Development
  • Clinical Phonology
  • Sensory Aids for the Hearing Impaired
  • Multi-modal Speech Perception
  • Speech Perception, Production, and Language Development in Hearing Impaired Children
  • Aural (Re)habilitation and Intervention Strategies
  • Predictors of Performance and outcome with Cochlear Implants
  • Individual Differences in Cochlear Implant Users
  • Language Development in Hearing-Impaired Children with Cochlear Implants
  • Phonological Development in Hearing-Impaired Children with Cochlear Implants
  • Audio-Visual Speech Perception in Hearing-Impaired Children with Cochlear Implants

The program welcomes individuals with backgrounds in clinical areas related to Speech and Hearing Sciences as well as Linguistics, Engineering, Experimental Psychology, and Cognitive Science. Faculty and laboratory facilities for the training program are currently drawn from the Departments of Psychology, Linguistics, and Speech & Hearing Sciences in Bloomington and in the Department of Otolaryngology - H.N.S. at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. The program has ten core faculty members and an additional twenty-six affiliated faculty, all of whom are carrying out research on a wide range of basic and clinical problems related to the Communication Sciences and Disorders.

Training activities of the program consist of

    (1) individual and collaborative research projects in one of the core or affiliated research laboratories;
    (2) participation in weekly laboratory meetings, research seminars, journal clubs and specialized workshops;
    (3) attendance at scientific or professional meetings; and
    (4) formal coursework in Psychology, Speech & Hearing Sciences, Linguistics, Cognitive Science or Neural Science.

Access to clinical populations for research is available through the Speech and Hearing Clinic in Bloomington and the ENT Clinic at the IU Medical Center in Indianapolis. The long-term goal of this program is to provide interdisciplinary research training in the Communication Sciences and Disorders and to encourage novel and creative approaches to basic and clinical research problems related to speech, hearing and sensory communication.

Interested applicants are encouraged to send: (1) an up-to-date vita, (2) personal letter describing their specific research interests, goals, and career plans, and (3) reference letters from three people who can describe the applicant's background, interests, and research potential to Professor David B. Pisoni. Reprints and preprints of any prior research or scholarly activities should also be sent if possible. Women, minority members, and handicapped individuals are urged to apply. Applicants must be US citizens or permanent residents. Send all materials to:

David B. Pisoni, Ph.D., Program Director
Department of Psychology
Indiana University
Bloomington, Indiana 47405
(812) 855-1155 FAX: (812) 855-1300
Email David Pisoni

Direct any further questions to Darla Sallee at Email Darla Sallee or telephone 855-1768.


Core Faculty