School of Psychology and Neuroscience

Projects

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• 19 Active
• 251 Finished

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  SULSA ECR Development Award: Visualising Synaptic Activity in the Mouse Spinal Cord for Studying Motor Behaviour and Neurodegenerative Disease

  Broadhead, M. J. (PI)

  Scottish Funding Council

  22/02/21 → 30/11/21

  Project: Standard

• Research Culture in the Covid-19 era: Research Culture in the Covid-19 era

  Harris, J.

  1/12/20 → 31/07/21

  Project: Standard

• Enhancing capacity for primate research: Enhancing the capacity for primate research and pubic engagement through online infrastructure to mitigate the impact of COVID-19

  Seed, A. M. (PI)

  1/12/20 → 31/07/21

  Project: Standard

• Rebecca Lakin travel grant: Assessing the impact of nutrition on the physiological and behavioural development of Herring and Lesser black- backed gull chicks.

  Spencer, K. A. (PI)

  1/12/20 → 31/07/21

  Project: Standard

• Tenovus Research Studentship: Harnessing spinal circuits to facilitate respiratory recovery following spinal cord injury in mice

  Miles, G. B. (PI) & Sharples, S. A. (CoI)

  Tenovus-Scotland

  27/11/20 → 26/11/23

  Project: Studentship

• Neural mechanisms for perceiving motion: Understanding the neural mechanisms for perceiving motion

  Ales, J.

  1/11/20 → 31/07/21

  Project: Standard

• A study of PGT wellbeing pre/post Covid: A study of PGT wellbeing before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal approach

  Miles, P. J. (PI), O'Carroll, V. (CoI) & Fotheringham, F. (Researcher)

  Scottish Funding Council

  1/11/20 → 31/07/21

  Project: Standard

• Reciprocal cooperation in Norway rats: What have you done for me lately? Reciprocal cooperation in Norway rats

  Schweinfurth, M. K.

  1/11/20 → 31/07/21

  Project: Standard

• Link between neurogenesis and memory: Using continuous monitoring of rodent behaviour to examine the link between neurogenesis and memory

  Ainge, J. (PI)

  1/11/20 → 31/07/21

  Project: Standard

• Roles of a signalling peptide movement: Defining the roles of a novel signalling peptide in the regulation of spinal cord circuits that control movement

  Miles, G. B. (PI)

  1/11/20 → 31/07/21

  Project: Standard

  • Cocaine and Amphetamine Regulated Transcript 100%
  • Motor Neuron 100%
  • Synapse 100%
  • Acetylcholine 50%

• Improving performance under pressure: Improving performance under pressure: Does the focus of attention matter?

  Jentzsch, I. (PI)

  1/11/20 → 31/07/21

  Project: Standard

  • Piano performance 100%
  • Focus of attention 100%
  • Music Performance 50%

• Bias and accuracy in football referees: Using signal detection theory to quantify bias and accuracy in football referee decisions

  O'Connor, A. R. (PI)

  1/11/20 → 31/07/21

  Project: Standard

• Understanding the evolutionary and psychological origins of reciprocal help, using rats

  Schweinfurth, M. K. (PI)

  St Leonard's College

  1/11/20 → 31/10/23

  Project: Studentship

  • Psychology 100%
  • Tuition Fee 100%
  • Evolution 100%

• Behavioural coding of wild apes: DeepWild: Deep-learning tools for automated behavioural coding of wild apes

  Hobaiter, C. (PI)

  1/11/20 → 31/07/21

  Project: Standard

  • Animal Behavior 100%
  • Machine Learning 100%
  • Pan Paniscus 100%
  • Pose Estimation 100%
  • Wild Animal 66%

• Distribution and modulation of dynamic s: Distribution and modulation of dynamic sodium pumps in a spinal motor network

  Sillar, K. T. (PI) & Hachoumi, L. (CoI)

  BBSRC

  5/10/20 → 4/10/23

  Project: Standard

  • Tadpole 100%
  • Anura 100%
  • Adenosine Triphosphatase (Potassium Sodium) 100%
  • Nitric Oxide 60%
  • Thyroid Hormone 33%

• The neural basis of descending motor control

  Pulver, S. R. (PI) & Zwart, M. F. (CoPI)

  BBSRC iCASE PhD studentship through EASTBIO Doctoral Training Programme

  27/09/20 → 26/09/24

  Project: Studentship

• The Cognitive foundations of social-mind: The Cognitive Foundations of Social Minds

  Call, J. (PI)

  Templeton World Charity Foundation

  1/09/20 → 31/08/24

  Project: Standard

  • Giraffa 100%
  • Quagga 100%
  • Burchell's Zebra 100%
  • Giraffe 100%
  • Zebra 100%

• Perceived threats and 'stampedes': Perceived threats and 'stampedes': a relational model of collective fear responses

  Reicher, S. D. (PI)

  Economic & Social Research Council

  1/09/20 → 31/08/22

  Project: Standard

• H2020-MSCA-IF-2019 RootsofWorkingMemory: H2020-MSCA-IF-2019 RootsofWorkingMemory

  Seed, A. M. (PI)

  1/08/20 → 31/07/22

  Project: Fellowship

• Facilitating the public response: Facilitating the public response to COVID-19 by harnessing group processes

  Reicher, S. D. (PI)

  30/06/20 → 29/12/21

  Project: Standard

  • Observed Behavior 100%
  • Behavioral Intervention 100%
  • Psychology 100%
  • COVID 19 Epidemic 100%
  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 100%

• Judith Sleeman MND Scotland: Protein methylation as a mechanism for cellular damage in motor neurone disease

  Sleeman, J. E. (PI) & Miles, G. B. (CoI)

  Motor Neurone Disease Scotland

  2/03/20 → 1/03/22

  Project: Standard

• Auditory stress: Auditory stress and the acoustic features of natural sounds

  Penacchio, O. (PI)

  Carnegie Trust

  17/02/20 → 31/01/22

  Project: Standard

  • Luminance Contrast 100%
  • Statistical Regularity 100%
  • Psychology 100%
  • Metabolic 100%
  • Critical Reflection 50%

• Christian Rutz (Psychology): What makes a good tool user? A species-wide experimental study of the Hawaiian crow

  Call, J. (PI)

  BBSRC

  1/10/19 → 30/09/23

  Project: Standard

• Brain circuits for cognitive control: Brain circuits for cognitive control

  Tait, D. S. (PI) & Bowman, E. M. (CoI)

  Boehringer Ingelheim International GMBH

  26/09/19 → 25/09/23

  Project: Studentship

• SPRINT-MND/MS: SPRINT MND/MS: Motor Neurone Disease and Multiple Sclerosis PhD Programme

  Miles, G. B. (PI)

  1/09/19 → 28/02/23

  Project: Studentship

• Bridging the Divide: Bridging the divide: Piloting an intergroup contact intervention on the context of brexit

  Tausch, N. (PI)

  The British Academy

  1/09/19 → 31/10/21

  Project: Standard

  • Randomized Controlled Trial 100%
  • Heat 100%
  • Attitude 100%
  • Effective Intervention 100%
  • Remainer 100%

• Visual salience: Visual salience: patterns that maximally activate the visual system?

  Harris, J. (PI)

  The Leverhulme Trust

  1/06/19 → 25/07/22

  Project: Standard

  • Luminance Contrast 100%
  • Statistical Regularity 100%
  • Psychology 100%
  • Metabolic 100%
  • Critical Reflection 50%

• Mechanisms of spinal plasticity contribu: Mechanisms of spinal plasticity contributing to postnatal development of weight-bearing walking.

  Sharples, S. A. (PI)

  The Royal Society

  1/06/19 → 31/08/22

  Project: Fellowship

  • Motor Unit 100%
  • Patch Clamp 79%
  • Electrophysiology 79%
  • Cocaine and Amphetamine Regulated Transcript 59%
  • Potassium Current 59%

• Cat Hobaiter: H2020 ERC Starting Grant 2018 GESTURALORIGINS

  Hobaiter, C. (PI)

  European Research Council

  1/03/19 → 28/02/24

  Project: Fellowship

  • Pan Troglodytes 100%
  • Africans 72%
  • Pan Paniscus 45%
  • Human Language 42%
  • Vocalization 36%

• Adriano Lameira Carnegie: Exploring the possibility of speech-like vocal behavior in chimpanzees

  Reis e Lameira, A. (PI)

  Carnegie Trust

  1/02/19 → 1/07/19

  Project: Standard

  • Rhythm 100%
  • Lip 100%
  • Evolution 66%
  • Phylogenetics 33%

• Investigating ALS as a disease: Investigating ALS as a Disease of the Tripartite Synapse

  Miles, G. B. (PI) & Broadhead, M. J. (CoI)

  1/12/18 → 31/07/22

  Project: Standard

  • Astrocyte 100%
  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 61%
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 61%
  • Synapse 61%

• Cunningham Trust Studentship: Developing early warning assays for motor neurone disease in larval Drosophila: from neuromuscular syntaptic transmission to central pattern generator activity.

  Pulver, S. R. (PI)

  Cunningham Trust

  27/09/18 → 25/06/22

  Project: Studentship

• SPRINT-MND/MS: SPRINT-MND/MS: Motor Neurone Disease and Multiple Sclerosis PhD Programme

  Miles, G. B. (PI)

  1/09/18 → 28/02/22

  Project: Studentship

  • Synapse 100%
  • Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis 80%
  • Astrocyte 60%
  • Postsynaptic Density 40%

• Internship in Adaptive Interaction: Internship in Adaptive Interaction

  Ellis, M. (PI)

  Alzheimer Scotland

  28/05/18 → 20/07/18

  Project: Studentship

• Investigation of the well-being of postgraduate taught (PGT) students across an academic year

  Campbell, M. (PI), Miles, P. J. (PI) & O'Carroll, V. (PI)

  University of St Andrews

  2/04/18 → 30/09/20

  Project: Standard

• Fundamentals of human hearing: Fundamentals of human hearing: from basic cochlear processing to cortical representations

  Ales, J. (PI)

  Medical Research Council

  1/04/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Standard

• ISSF3 Spencer: ISSF Eggcellent roadshow grant

  Spencer, K. A. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  1/04/18 → 30/11/18

  Project: Standard

• ISSF3 PE Award Maria Larriva Hormigos: ISSF3 PE Award Maria Larriva Hormigos

  Larriva Hormigos, M. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  1/03/18 → 31/05/19

  Project: Standard

• James Ainge award for Maneesh Kuruvilla: XISF3 account - James Ainge

  Ainge, J. (PI)

  1/02/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Standard

• Soundscapes: Laboratory soundscapes: optimising acoustic environments for avian welfare

  Spencer, K. A. (PI)

  BBSRC

  1/02/18 → 12/03/21

  Project: Standard

  • Glucocorticoid 100%
  • Behavior (Neuroscience) 100%
  • Gene Expression 100%
  • Circadian Rhythm 100%

• H2020 MSCA- Mentalizingorigins: H2020 MSCA Fellowship (Krupenye)

  Call, J. (PI)

  European Commission

  1/01/18 → 31/12/19

  Project: Fellowship

  • Theory of Mind 100%
  • Mental State 75%
  • Social Cognition 66%
  • Eye-Tracking 66%
  • False Belief 50%

• What Kind of Mind? Psychology: What Kind of Mind? Engaging Children and the Public with Research on Animal and Infant Minds from Philosophy and Psychology

  Gomez, J.-C. (PI) & Seed, A. M. (CoI)

  Arts and Humanities Research Council

  1/01/18 → 31/12/18

  Project: Standard

• Seeing in 3D: What does it mean to "see 3D" Explaining the phenomenology of stereopsis.

  Vishwanath, D. (PI)

  The Leverhulme Trust

  1/12/17 → 5/11/21

  Project: Standard

  • Phenomenology 100%
  • Stereopsis 66%
  • Psychophysics 33%
  • Visual Field 33%
  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging 33%

• Generation of motor program diversity by inhibitory circuit motifs in the Drosophila larval locomotor system

  Pulver, S. R. (PI)

  BBSRC iCASE PhD studentship through EASTBIO Doctoral Training Programme

  27/09/17 → 26/04/22

  Project: Studentship

  • Musculoskeletal System 100%

• ISSF3 Miles: ISSF3 Miles

  Miles, G. B. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  1/09/17 → 31/12/20

  Project: Studentship

  • Astrocyte 100%
  • Adenosine 75%
  • Dopamine Receptor 50%

• ISSF3 Public Engagement - Doherty: ISSF3 Doherty

  Doherty, G. H. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  1/05/17 → 30/04/18

  Project: Standard

• ISSF3 Public Engagement - Spencer: ISSF3 Spencer

  Spencer, K. A. (PI)

  The Wellcome Trust

  1/05/17 → 30/04/18

  Project: Standard

• Understanding Neural Mechanisms: understanding the neural mechanisms for perceiving long-range motion

  Ales, J. (PI)

  BBSRC

  1/04/17 → 30/09/20

  Project: Standard

  • Electroencephalography 100%
  • Nerve Potential 100%
  • Binocular Disparity 100%
  • DNA Template 100%
  • Discrimination 100%

• The Verbal Ape H2020MSCA Fellowship: H2020 MSCA Fellowship 2015 Adriano Lameira

  Call, J. (PI)

  European Commission

  1/04/17 → 31/03/19

  Project: Fellowship

  • Speech Production 100%
  • Precursor 100%
  • Vocalization 100%
  • Membranophone 100%
  • Voicing 100%

• Dopaminergic modulation of locomotion in larval Drosophila melanogasgter

  Pulver, S. R. (PI) & Li, W. (CoPI)

  BBSRC iCASE PhD studentship through EASTBIO Doctoral Training Programme

  27/09/16 → 26/04/21

  Project: Studentship