NCU research Projects – awarded 2010

Crossing borders. That is the common denominator of all projects financially supported by NC Utrecht, briefly introduced below. Each project transgresses the boundaries of the usual monodisciplinary endeavors, either by combining animal with human research approaches, by linking linguistics to e.g. cognitive psychology or using a joined preclinical and clinical approach.
They all build on strong research expertise. The topics may be diverse, yet they share the intention to start new and exciting collaborations.

Below you find the projects currently financed by NCU. If you click on the link you will find a description and in some cases an brief video-clip.

1. Genes in color recognition
2. The experience of ‘self-agency’ in health and schizophrenia
3. Database of translational phenotypes and animal models for biomedical research
4. Multisensory congruency and attentional control as a therapy for patients with tinnitus or autism
5. Recording memories: An electrophysiological analysis of birdsong learning
6. Visualizing structural forms of synaptic plasticity
7. Olfaction as the neglected medium of affective communication
8. Language reorganization following cerebral hemispherectomy
9. Functional characterization of the novel ALS susceptibility locus UNC 13A
10. Processing parallels between language and vision? Focus on economy of our brain
11. Of children and mice: The neurobiology of cognitive rigidity
12. Predisposed to anxiety – a translational approach
13. Causal link between cortical organization and conscious perception
14. Language, learning and the cerebellum
15. Translational electrophysiological phenotypes of cognition and behavior