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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">Postdoctoral fellowship in human category learning<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">A postdoctoral fellowship is available to lead a joint project between Prof. Charley Wu, Prof. Frank Jäkel and Prof. Thomas Wallis, at the Centre for Cognitive Science at
the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. The position is funded via the Excellence Cluster “The Adaptive Mind” (TAM; <a href="https://theadaptivemind-excellencecluster.de" title="https://theadaptivemind-excellencecluster.de/">https://theadaptivemind-excellencecluster.de</a>)
and is for a duration of <b>three years</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">The project will study how humans can flexibly trade off similarity and rule-based mechanisms to make category judgments. We will develop a generative grammar of shapes,
casting the problem as one of program induction. In collaboration with other TAM partners, we aim to characterize behaviour in these tasks across the lifespan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">Research in the area of Cognitive Science, in particular with respect to categorization, category learning, Bayesian modelling, program induction,
and generative models<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">Teaching in the area of Cognitive Science<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l2 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">Communication of scientific results in the form of documentation, reports, presentations and research articles<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">Desirable:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">previous experience with human categorization, program induction, and / or generative grammars for shapes<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">More information and application procedures can be found on the official job listing: <a href="https://www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt/job/53882" title="https://www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt/job/53882">https://www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt/job/53882</a>.
Informal enquiries can be directed to Prof. Wallis (<a href="mailto:thomas.wallis@tu-darmstadt.de" title="mailto:thomas.wallis@tu-darmstadt.de">thomas.wallis@tu-darmstadt.de</a>), Prof. Jäkel (<a href="mailto:frank.jaekel@tu-darmstadt.de" title="mailto:frank.jaekel@tu-darmstadt.de">frank.jaekel@tu-darmstadt.de</a>)
or Prof. Wu (<a href="mailto:charley.wu@tu-darmstadt.de" title="mailto:charley.wu@tu-darmstadt.de">charley.wu@tu-darmstadt.de</a>). Applications will be reviewed starting<b>15.03.2026</b>, but will be considered until the position is filled.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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