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Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science

Grants awarded

MACCS currently attracts grant funding from the following external institutions:

This funding is in addition to many internal Macquarie University grants.

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Currently active grants

  • NHMRC Clinical Career Development Fellowship (Level 2) (2012 - 2015) "Improving diagnosis of early frontotemporal dementia syndromes." Piguet., O. ($432,000)
  • NHMRC Project Grant [APP1028578] (2012 - 2014) "Seeing clearly: examining the consequences of glaucoma for the human brain." Williams, M., Rich, A., & Graham, S. ($426,175)
  • ARC Discovery Project Grant (2012 - 2014) "Making sense of the world: how does the brain process task-relevant information?" Woolgar, A., Rich, A.N., Williams, M.A., & Duncan, J. ($246,000)
  • ARC Discovery Project Grant (2012 - 2014) "Building a model of the reading system: Computational and experimental studies." Coltheart, M., Rastle, K., Mulatti, C., & Besner, D. ($240,000)
  • ARC Discovery Project (2012 - 2014) "Moral reasoning and mental illness: Towards a model of moral judgment and moral accountability." Langdon, R., & Bruene, M. ($180,000)
  • UNSW Major Research Equipment and Infrastructure Initiative. (2012) Halliday, G., Shepherd, C.E., Piguet, O., Hornberger, M., Kim, R. et al ($122,500)
  • Macquarie University Research Fellowship (2012 - 2015) Linguistic knowledge in children with Specific Language Impairment Zhou, P. ($49,972)
  • Macquarie University Research Infrastructure Block Grant (2012 - 2013) "Tobii eye-tracker for testing infants and young children". Demuth, K., et al. ($49,105)
  • Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Research Grant [2011000049] (2012 - 2013) "Understanding the sounds of Kaytetye and how to teach them". Turpin, M., Ross, A., Demuth, K., & Harvey, M. ($24,495)
  • Nuffield Foundation Grant (2012 - 2013) "Infant vocabulary measures as predictors of reading skills in later childhood." Nation, K., & Plunkett, K.
  • ARC Centre of Excellence [CE110001021] (2011 - 2017) "ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders." Crain, S., Rhodes, G., Hodges, J., Coltheart, M., Castles, A., Barnier, A., Brock, J., Byrne, B., Demuth, K., Green, M., Langdon, R., Johnson, B., McArthur, G., Miller, L., Nickels, L., Piguet, O., Savage, G., Thompson, W., Thornton, R. et al. ($21,000,000)
  • ARC Discovery Project [DP110104202] (2011 - 2015) "Make up your mind! - Dissociating the roles of orbitofrontal cortex and striatum in human decision making". Hornberger, M., Hodges, J., & Lewis, S. ($1,005,000)
  • ARC Future Fellowship (2011 - 2014) "Poor social functioning in schizophrenia: Understanding its causes and developing better treatment." Langdon, R. ($674,019)
  • NHMRC Project Grant [1003139] (2011 - 2013) "Eating disturbance and hypothalamic function in frontotemporal dementia". Piguet, O., Samaras, K., & Hodges, J. ($475,000)
  • ARC Discovery Project Grant (2011 - 2014) "Perceptual and psychosocial factors associated with individual differences in face identity and face expression processing". McKone, E., Palermo, R., O'Kearney, R., & Moore, T. ($414,000)
  • ARC Discovery project (2011 - 2014) "Speech production in language-impaired speakers: Informing theoretical models and clinical practice regarding grammatical processing." Biedermann, B., & Schiller, N. ($401,509)
  • ARC Discovery Project Grant [DP110102593] (2011 - 2013) "Incremental syntactic parsing and coreference resolution." Johnson, M.E., & Steedman, M. ($395,000)
  • ARC Discovery Project [DP110102506] (2011 - 2013) "Computational models of synergies in human language acquisition." Johnson, M., Demuth, K., & Frank, M. ($368,000)
  • ARC Discovery Project Grant [DP110100294] (2011 - 2013) "Cracking the orthographic code: Early perceptual processes in reading." Kinoshita, S., & Norris, D. ($325,601)
  • NHMRC Project Grant [APP1003760] (2011 - 2013) "Brain dynamics and sensorimotor integration associated with speech production in humans who stutter." Sowman, P., Johnson, B., Harrison, E., & Crain, S. ($294,884)
  • ARC Linkage Project (2011 - 2013) "Examination of the cognitive and biological circuitry underlying social-cognitive training in first episode psychosis." Guastella, A., Langdon, R., Scott, E., Ward, P., Naismith, S., & Redoblado-Hodge, A. ($294,000)
  • Australian Research Council discovery project grant [DP120102589] (2011 - 2013) "Gaze perception and adaptation." Clifford, C.W., & Calder, A.J. ($284,000)
  • Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MQRF) (2011 - 2013) "Using generalisation to improve treatment of spelling difficulties." Kohnen, S. ($270,641)
  • ARC Discovery project (2011 - 2013) "Using generalisation to better treat poor spelling." Kohnen, S., Nickels, L., & Rapp, B. ($240,000)
  • ARC Discovery Project [DP110102479] (2011 - 2013) "Phonological effects on the development of inflectional morphology." Cox, F., & Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. ($205,000)
  • Hong Kong Research Grants Council (General Research Fund) (2011 - 2014) "Understanding the basis for the own-race advantage in face recognition". Hayward, W., Caldara, R., & Rhodes, G. ($123,977)
  • Macquarie University Research Development Grants Schemes (2011 - 2013) 'Boring' or 'interesting': How do we process adjectives after brain damage? Renvall, K., Burianova, H., & Nickels, L. ($45,998)
  • Alzheimer's Australia Research Dementia Research Grants (2011 - 2012) "The future looks bright – Episodic future thinking as a diagnostic aid in frontotemporal dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease". Irish, M., Piguet O., & Hodges, J.R. ($33,000)
  • Alfred Kordelin Foundation via the Foundations' Postdoc Pool (2011 - 2012) Grant for post-doctoral research abroad. (35000 EUR) Renvall, K.
  • St. John’s College Research Centre Grant (2011 - 2012) "Eye movements in literary reading." Nation, K.
  • The Economic and Social Research Council (2011 - 2013) "Discourse processing in poor comprehenders: an eye movement study." Nation, K., & Joseph, H.
  • Bloomsbury Colleges PhD Studentship (2011 - 2014) "Mechanisms of social influence in typical development and autism." £57,000 Pellicano, E., & Bird, G.
  • ARC Discovery Grant (2010 - 2014) "The emergence of logic in child language." Crain, S., Johnson, B., Khlentzos, D., Lee, T.H-T., Tseng, O., & Gao, L-Q. ($601,000)
  • NHMRC Project Grant [630489] (2010 - 2012) "Progressive aphasia and amyloid deposition: a multidisciplinary approach to improving dementia diagnosis." Hodges, J., Rowe, C., Piguet, O., Pike, K., Ballard, K., & Villemagne, V. ($510,700)
  • NHMRC Project Grant [632689] (2010 - 2012) "The impact of circadian disturbances on sleep quality, cognition and psychiatric symptoms in neurodegenerative disease". Lewis, S., Naismith, S., Rogers, N., & Hodges, J. ($479,000)
  • ARC Discovery Project Grant [DP1093279] (2010 - 2012) "Prefrontal and medial temporal lobe cortices' interactions to episodic long-term memory". Piguet, O., Hodges, J., & Hornberger, M. ($327,000)
  • NWO Rubicon Grant (2010 - 2012) "How do children learn to read? Understanding the dynamics between building up orthographic representations and lexical restructuring." Marinus, E. ($85,000)
  • The Economic and Social Research Council quota award (2010 - 2013) "Probing the sensory atypicalities in autism." Pellicano, E.
  • VolkswagenStiftung (2010 - 2012) "Social conformity: why do humans and monkeys make weak decisions under social influence." €398,000 Krug, K., & Mojzisch, A., & Pellicano, E.
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (2010 - 2015) (£4,999,009) "Systems cognitive neuroscience of healthy ageing: population-representative studies of functional plasticity and neural change." Tyler, L., Brayne, C., Bullmore, E., Calder, A.J., Cusack, R., Duncan, J., Henson, R., Marslen-Wilson, W., Mathews, F., & Rowe, J.
  • Wellcome Trust Biomedical Ethics Funding Committee (2009 - 2014) "Oxford Centre for Neuroethics." Savulescu, J., Sinnott-Armstrong, W., Sahakian, B.J., Tracey, I., Buchan, A., Fulford, K.W., Levy, N., Bostrom, N., Madder, H.R., & Aimola Davies, A. ($1,821,800)
  • National Health & Medical, Research Council (NHMRC) Project Grant (2009 - 2013) "Understanding emerging severe mental illness in young people." Schall U, Michie, P, Stain, H, Ward, P, Langdon, R., & Todd, J. ($1,540,000)
  • NHMRC Project Grant (2009 - 2013) "Neurocognitive correlates of transition from ultra-high risk mental state to schizophrenia." Schall, U.A., Michie, P.T., Stain, H.J., Ward, F.B., Langdon, R., & Todd, J. ($1,505,750)
  • NSF PIRE international training program in computational linguistics (2009 - 2014) "Collaborative investigation of meaning representation in language processing." Johnson, M. & Charniak, E. ($1,064,990)
  • ARC Discovery Project Grant (2009 - 2013) "How does the brain process facial expressions?" Williams, M.A. ($609,610)
  • NHMRC Centre for Clinical Research Excellence (2009 - 2013) “Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Aphasia Rehabilitation” Worrall, L., Togher, L., Ferguson, A., Copland, D., Nickels, L., & Douglas, J. ($499,000)
  • ARC Discovery Project Grant (2009 - 2014) "Integrating holistic processing and face-space approaches to the perception of facial identity." McKone, E., Edwards, M., & Aimola Davies, A. ($495,000)
  • ARC Discovery Project Grant (2009 - 2013) "Cognitive and neural cause of language impairment in autism." Brock, J., Johnson, B., & McArthur, G. ($422,285)
  • ARC Discovery Project Grant (2009 - 2012) "Vocal Emotional Communication." Thompson, W.F., & Palmer, C. ($295,000)
  • NHMRC Postdoctoral Training Fellowship (2009 - 2012) "Cortical networks that integrate auditory input and speech motor output in human stutterers." Sowman, P. ($285,000)
  • The Cambridge BioResource, Medical Research Council, Sir Cusrow Wadia Fund (2009 - 2013) (£197,751) "Facilitating Human Gene-Phenotype-Function Research in Cambridge." Marslen-Wilson, W., Calder, A.J., Todd, J., Ouwehand, W., Wareham, N., O’Rahilly, S., Dunger, D., & Savage, D.
  • Medical Research Council (2009 - 2014) (£2,370,000) "Interactive Neural systems governing emotion and social interaction." Calder, A.J.
  • NICHD R01 HD057606 (2008 - 2013) Constraints on phonological and morphological development. Demuth, K., & Shattuck-Hufnagel, S. ($1,595,024)
  • NHMRC Project Grant (2008 - 2012) "A randomised control trial of treatments for children with different types of reading difficulty". McArthur, G., Coltheart, M., Castles, A., & Kohnen, S. ($840,000)
  • ARC Discovery Project Grant and Australian Professorial Fellowship (2008 - 2012) Rhodes, G., Pellicano, E., & Leopold, D.A. ($739,500)
  • ARC Discovery Project Grant and Australian Research Fellowship (2008 - 2012) "Attention, Intention and Automaticity". Finkbeiner, M. ($465,000)
  • ARC Discovery Project Grant and Australian Research Fellowship (2008 - 2012) "Children's difficulties in learning to read: Causes and consequences of poor letter-sound knowledge". McArthur, G., Coltheart, M., & Castles, A. ($454,000)
  • MACCS Postgraduate Grant (2008 - 2012) Huang, A. ($12,000)
  • ARC Federation Fellowship [FF0776229] (2007 - 2012) "Long-term memory systems and the human brain". Hodges, J. ($2,004,000)
  • U.S. National Institutes of Health (2007 - 2012) "Longitudinal outcomes of children with hearing impairment: early vs later intervention." Ching, T.Y.C., Cupples, L., Dahl, H., & Dillon, H.
  • Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Training Co-operative Research Centres Programme. (2006 - 2012) The HEARing Co-operative Research Centre. Core participants: The University of Melbourne, Cochlear Ltd., Siemens Hearing Instruments Pty Ltd, Australian Hearing, Macquarie University. Crain, S. ($32,550,000)
  • National Institutes of Health/National Institute for Child Health & Human Development (2006 - 2012) "Longitudinal Twin Study of Early Reading Development". Olson, R.K. & Byrne, B. ($1,500,000)