We prefer for them to begin with new collaborative projects in the first year, phasing in independent projects in the second and subsequent years. Our aim is to expose them to a range of issues and research domains so they will have broader interests and expertise when they move to a tenure track job. Our lab is easy to use and efficient. Modeling and programming of all sorts is done on a variety of workstations. Other post docs have found that they were proficient with the system in a week.
Subjects are available from introductory psychology courses or from a paid subject pool.
For psycholinguistic work, we have a large corpus of text and software with which to search it. Collaborations with Beth Levin in Linguistics would be an attractive possibility. The city of Evanston provides a lot of attractions. It is a pleasant older suburb with abundant parks, beaches, sports such as bicycling, sailing, and swimming, lakeside concerts and fairs, and so on, and everything is within five to ten minutes of the university. Although the winters are cold, O'Hare is only 45 minutes away.