€2 million ERC Consolidator Grant for research on how language emerges in the human brain
EMERGENCE aims to fundamentally rethink how language arises in the brain. The project integrates structural, functional and neurochemical data to uncover how language emerges from interactions across distributed neural systems.
A key element is the unique Language and Interaction dataset, combining rich behavioural language measures with multimodal MRI in more than 200 participants. The project will also build on recent advances such as the brain–cognition morphospace map to explore “gaps” in current models of language organisation.
Through collaborations with the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the University of the Witwatersrand, the team will incorporate linguistic diversity and develop a comprehensive, biologically grounded model of the language network.
Congratulations to Stephanie and the team on this achievement.
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