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The Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra, Portugal, is seeking applications for 3 Post-Doctoral positions in Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience as part of the ERA Chair grant CogBooster. The positions are aimed at contributing to the renewal of Psychological Sciences in Portugal and involve working with Alfonso Caramazza and Jorge Almeida. The selected applicants will be based in Coimbra with opportunities to spend time at Harvard University in Alfonso Caramazza’s laboratory. The positions are focused on: 1) lexical processing, visual object recognition, reading, or action recognition; 2) visual object recognition and how object knowledge is organized and represented; 3) object dimensionality and dimensional mapping using population receptive field analysis/connective field modeling.