Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE180100893

Funding Activity

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Funded Activity Summary

No pain no word gain: toward a new neurobiological account of word learning. This project aims to generate a novel neurobiological account of word learning, going beyond a simple mapping between words and objects and recognising the sensory and socio-communicative embedding of language. Capitalising on interdisciplinary approaches to research, this project will use state-of-the-art neuroimaging to reveal the neural architecture and mechanisms supporting contextualised sensory word learning. The results are expected to bring about a paradigm shift in the fields of neurobiology of language and learning, having a profound impact on the practice of language teaching and improvement of language functioning.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-08-2018

End Date: 20-11-2022

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $366,403.00

Funder: Australian Research Council