Grants awarded
MACCS currently attracts grant funding from the following external institutions:
- Apple University Consortium
- Australian Research Council
- Australian Rotary Health
- National Health and Medical Research Council
- Neuroscience Institute for Schizophrenia and Allied Disorders (NISAD)
This funding is in addition to many internal Macquarie University grants.
Currently active grants
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. ($840,000)
ARC Linkage - Infrastructure Equipment & Facilities Scheme (2008) "Tesla MRI system for human cognitive neuroscience research." Mattingley, J. & Coltheart, M. ($650,000)
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)
NHMRC Project Grant (2008 - 2010) "Selective attention and the processing of observed actions". Cunnington, R., Mattingley, J., & Williams, M. ($326,000)
ARC Discovery Project Grant (2008 - 2010) "Neurocognitive substrates of naming facilitation in aphasia." Copland, D.A., Nickels, L.A., McMahon, K.L., & Angwin, A.J. ($323,000)
ARC Discovery Project Grant (2008 - 2011) "The meaning of 'OR' in logic and human languages". Crain, S., & Thornton, R. ($287,000)
Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MQRF) (2008 - 2010) "Informing spoken word production theories using data from brain-impaired speakers." Biedermann, B. ($267,100)
ARC Discovery Project Grant (2008 - 2010) "Masked Priming in the Bayesian Reader." Kinoshita, S., & Norris, D. ($130,000)
Macquarie University Research Infrastructure Block Grant Scheme (2008) "64-Channel EEG acquire and analysis system and special MEG-compatable electrode caps and cable system." Rich, A., Williams, M., Johnson, B., Finkbeiner, M., Savage, G., & Crain, S. ($80,000)
Macquarie University Research Infrastructure Block Grant Scheme (2008) "SonoSite Micromax Ultrasound." Nickels, L., Finkbeiner, M., Coltheart, M., Palethorpe, S., Cox, F., & Harrison, E. ($62,000)
Macquarie University Research Infrastructure Block Grant Scheme (2008) "Acquisition of a Storage Area Network (SAN)." Coltheart, M., Crain, S., Williams, M., Rich, A., Johnson, B., Barnier, A., Nickels, L., McArthur, G., Castles, A., Langdon, R., Palermo, R., Kinoshita, S., & Coltheart, V. ($60,000)
Macquarie University Safety Net Grant (2008) "The dangers of distraction: the impact of salient stimuli on the voluntary deployment of attention." Rich, A. ($20,000)
Macquarie University Safety Net Grant (2008) "The social significance of eye gaze." Langdon, R. ($20,000)
Macquarie University Safety Net Grant (2008) "An investigation of the neural network involved in the perception of facial expressions." Williams, M. ($19,840)
Macquarie University Safety Net Grant (2008) "Informing theories of lexical representations using language impaired speakers." Biedermann, B. ($18,575)
Macquarie University Safety Net Grant (2008) "Effects of Augmentation a Cognitive Remediation Program with Targeted Socio-Cognitive Training in Schizophrenia." Marsh, P., Harris, A., Langdon, R., & Coltheart, M. ($18,206)
Macquarie University Safety Net Grant (2008) "A new treatment for word retrieval impairments in acquired communication disorders." Nickels, L. ($18,000)
Macquarie University Safety Net Grant (2008) "Cognitive integration in autism spectrum disorders." Brock, J. ($18,000)
Macquarie University Safety Net Grant (2008) "Uncovering the cognitive and neural structure of face recognition via congenital prosopagnosia." Palermo, R. ($17,820)
Nippon Foundation: Macquarie Japanese Centre Research and Resources Development Grant (2008) "Understanding how the Japanese language is structured through the use of homophones." Nickels, L., Biedermann, B., & Wydell, T. ($4,500)
MACCS Postgraduate Grant (2008) Beyersmann, A.E., Castles, A., & Coltheart, M. ($1,500)
MACCS Postgraduate Grant (2008) Mousikou, P. ($1,260)
Macquarie International Student Travel Grant (2008) Mousikou, P. ($1,000)
Student Travel Fellowship (2008) Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (US National Science Foundation) Zhou, P. ($500)
MACCS ALI Scholarship (2008) Beyersmann, A.E. ($250)
ARC Discovery Projects Grant and Australian Research Fellowship (2007 - 2011) "From autobiographical memory to collective memory: An interdisciplinary study of individual and group cognition." Barnier, A., & Sutton, J. ($410,000)
Macquarie University Research Innovation Fund (2007 - 2009) "From the Neuron to the Self: human nature and the new cognitive neurosciences." Sutton, J., Bayne, T., Coltheart, M., Crain, S., Langdon, R., Mackenzie, C., Menzies, P., & Barnier, A. ($250,000)
Macquarie University Research Centres Scheme (2007 - 2011) "Centre for Language Sciences." Crain, S., Peters, P., Cupples, L., Johnston, T.A., Nickels, L., McMahon, C., & Thornton, R. ($150,000)
Macquarie University Research Development Scheme (2007 - 2008) "Assessing memory storage in the right hemisphere of the brain: Development of The Sydney Test of Relational Encoding (SToRE)." Savage, G. ($51,000)
Macquarie University Research Development Scheme (2007 - 2008) "Developing and testing a comprehensive hypnotic analogue of clinical delusions." Barnier, A., & Langdon, R. ($50,000)
Macquarie University Research Development Scheme (2007 - 2008) "An examination of the spatial pattern of response in cortex used during object perception." Williams, M.A. ($50,000)
Macquarie University Research Development Scheme (2007 - 2008) "Correlating Genetic, Cognitive and Clinical Variability in Williams Syndrome." Porter, M.A. ($49,009)
Macquarie University Research Development Scheme (2007 - 2008) "Exploring the bases of reading problems in children: Beyond phonological deficits." Castles, A. ($45,824)
Macquarie University Research Development Scheme (2007 - 2008) "Mirroring other people's attention state." Frischen, A., & Loach, D. ($35,004)
Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarship (MQRES) (2007 - 2010) Zopf, R. ($19,616)
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)
NHMRC Project Grant (2006 - 2009) "Understanding how language and reading problems develop: a population-based longitudinal study from infancy to age 7." Reilly, S., Prior, M., Castles, A., Wake, M., Bavin, E., Carlin, J., &Bretherton, L. ($633,550)
NHMRC Project Grant (2006 - 2008) The Rane and Spain routes in the brain: functional studies and remediation in dyslexia subtypes. Rae, C., Coltheart, M., & McArthur, G. ($365,250)
NHMRC Research Fellowship (2006 - 2011) "Senior Research fellow, level A". Nickels, L.A. ($362,250)
ARC Linkage Project grant, with Yokogawa Electric Co. as a partner organization (2006 - 2009) "An MEG (brain imaging) system to study cognitive processes in children" (Total grant contribution $970,000) Crain, S., Coltheart, M., Thornton, R., & Kado, H. ($220,000)
Australian Rotary Health Research Fund's Geoffrey Betts Fellowship (2006 - 2008) Porter, M.A. ($215,000)
ARC Discovery Project Grant (2006 - 2008) "Reconciling cognitive and perceptual accounts of dyslexia: The neural rate deficit hypothesis." Castles, A., Stuart, G. ($155,000)
NHMRC CJ Martin Travelling Postdoctoral Fellowship (2005 - 2009) "Visual search of heterogenous displays: The role of categorisation." Rich, A.N. ($303,762)
NHMRC CJ Martin Travelling Postdoctoral Fellowship (2005 - 2009) "Perceptual and neural mechanisms of scene perception: high-field strength magnetic resonance imaging and magnetoencephalography of human vision." Williams, M.A. ($303,762)
National Science Foundation of USA (2005 - 2008) "Unconscious processes in word recognition". Forster, K. & Kinoshita, S. ($182,244)
Menzies Foundation of Australia: R.G.Menzies Fellowship (2005 - 2009) Rich, A.N. ($20,000)
ARC Research Networks (2004 - 2008) "Enabling Human Communication: Tough problems in human communication with bold but informed solutions drawing on sound, speech, and language research capabilities" Dale, R., Burnham, D., Coltheart, M., Nickels, L.A. et al ($2,000,000)
ARC Federation Fellowship (2004 - 2009) "Logic and language: Foundations of cognitive growth." Crain, S. ($1,481,765)
ARC Australian Research Fellowship (2004 - 2009) "Cognitive neuropsychiatry: understanding delusional belief and delusional hallucination from a cognitive neuropsychological perspective" Langdon, R. ($410,000)
ARC Discovery Project Grant (2004 - 2008) Forgetting and remembering the past: Inhibition and facilitation of autobiographical memories. Barnier, A., & Conway, M. ($270,000)
ARC Special Research Centre Scheme (2000 - 2008) "Centre for Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuropsychology" Coltheart, M., Beckman, M., Davies, M., Harrington, J., Coltheart, V., Kinoshita, S., Bates, T., Nickels, L., Perry, C., Rastle, K., Langdon, R., Lupker, S., Ziegler, J., Corballis, M., Maguire, A., & Breen, N. ($6,991,066)