Grants

Recent Grants

MRC Co-operative Group – Human memory and learning: A working memory approach. Five year co-operative grant funded by MRC (£69,239), starting January 2001 (co-applicants: S.E. Gathercole, A.D. Baddeley, C. Jarrold, R. Logie)

Co-ordination functions in healthy and impaired working memory. 3 year project funded by the MRC (£132,000) starting February 2001 (co-applicants: R.Logie and T.Redpath)

Explicit and implicit awareness for hemiplegia in right and left brain-damaged subjects. 2 year grant funded by The Stroke Association (£64,932), starting 1 April 2003.

Editorship of Cortex – 2001-2004, funded by Masson, S.p.A. (148,000 Euro)

Factors affecting acquired mirror writing in patients with stroke. 1 year grant funded by The Chest, Heart and Stroke Association, Scotland (£2995.78), starting 1 March 2004.

European Science Festival: The deceiving mind. 1 year grant funded by the funded by the Science Festival Association, starting 1 June 2004 (Euro 88,650)

Degenerative diseases: a clinical and scientific perspective. 3 year grant (Edinburgh quota £38,000) funded by the EU-ALFA Programme; Exchange Programme between Universities of the European Union and Latin America, starting August 2nd, 2004.

Research Training Fellowship. 1 year grant funded by the University of Padua, for Dr. Barbara Treccani (Euro 20,000) April 2004-March 2005.

Esciential: an exhibition on the brain and the mind – European Commission (Science and Society) 1 year, starting 1 May 2004 (Euro 36,840).

Research Training Fellowship. 6 month grant funded by the University of Florence, for Dr. Chiara Zampi (Euro 10,000) May 2004-October 2004.

Dual-task impairment in different types of dementias. The Royal Society, two years funding for a joint project with Dr. Maia Beridze, University of Tblisi, Georgia, starting 1 October 2004 (£10,940).

Knowledge Transfer 2004, University of Edinburgh. Material for the Edinburgh Science Festival 2005 (£4,000).

BPS Visiting Psychology Scheme 2004. Two month visit to HCN in Edinburgh for Dr. Kate Inasaridze funded by the BPS Reasearch Board (£2,700).

INTAS Fellowship Call 2004. Two year fellowship (2005-2006) to supervise Kate Inasaridze’s PhD, The Georgia State Medical Academy (Euro 15,100)

Editorship of Cortex – 2005-2007, funded by Masson, S.p.A. (125,268 Euro)

Integrated image data storage and processing facilities to support research in clinical neuroscience - equipment grant: Five year IT grant funded by the Wellcome trust (£416,427) (first applicant: Ian Marshall), starting: September 2005.

Assessment of anatomo-functional reorganization of cognitive processes by electrophysiological and neuropsychological techniques for detecting early biological markers of Alzheimer Disease. Three year studentship granted to host an over-sea student (Mario Alfredo Parra Rodriguez) funded by ALBAN, starting August 20th, 2005.

Impairments of attention and mental imagery following brain damage: an investigation of spared subliminal processing. Three year project grant funded by CSO - Chief Scientist Office (£203,038), starting October 2005 (co-applicants: R. Logie and M. Denis, Edinburgh). For further details click here.

Effects of bilingualism in non-linguistic domains. One year project funded by DTRF - Development & Alumni, The University of Edinburgh (£8,387) starting 1 February 2006 (co-applicant: A. Sorace, Edinburgh).

PhD programme in “Cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology”. Three year programme funded by the Ministero Italiano dell’Industria, Universita’ e Ricerca (MIUR) – in collaboration with the universities of Naples and Trieste (196,000 Euros), starting March 15th, 2006.

Unawareness of language disorders following brain damage. Two yeas award funded by the Wellcome Trust (£96,822), in collaboration with Goldsmith College (G. Cocchini), starting January 2nd 2007.

Dual-task impairment in Minimal Cognitive Impairment. Two year award funded by The Royal Society - joint project with Dr. Maria Antonieta Bobes, Cuban Neuroscience Centre, Havana, starting 1 May 2006 (£10,300).

Esciential –I.E. – European Science Festival: Itinerant Exhibitions. European Commission (Science and Society) 2 years, starting 1 September 2006 (Edinburgh quota: Euro 7000).

Remembering under conditions of reduced interference: An investigation into the role and nature of retroactive interference in the severe forgetting in patients with mild cognitive impairment. – Three year post-doctoral fellowship for Michaela Dewar awarded by the Alzheimer’s Research Trust (£128,754), starting February 1st 2007.

Dual-task impairment in Alzheimer Disease: An investigation on specificity and development of a clinical tool. – Two year project grant awarded by the Alzheimer’s Society (co-applicants: RH Logie and J Starr), £95,104, starting October 2007.

Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland - Minor research award  (PI: Katy Overy, Music Dept.) £4,932 - 1 year (2008).

Editorship of Cortex – 2008-2010, funded by Elsevier (125,268 Euro).

Adjunt Professorship – University of Western Australia, Perth  (2008-2010), AU$30,000.

Investigation of the preclinical phase of AD: identification of early cognitive markers (Estudio de la fase preclinica de la enfermedad de Alzheimer: busqueda de marcadores cognitivos tempranos) – Three years project (2008-2010) funded by Colciencias (Columbia government granting body) with Mario Parra (and Francisco Lopera, University of Antioquia, as Columbian partner): 328,733,000 Columbian Pesos (aprox. £81,500), quota to Edinburgh 101,000,000 Pesos (aprox. £24,500).

Two PhD studentships in “Cognitive neuroscience and experimental psychology”. Three year programme funded by the Campania Region and the Suor Orsola Foundation – in collaboration with the universities of Naples and Trieste (98,000 Euros), starting October, 2008.