BA/ Leverhulme grant to investigate gaze coordination during social interactions in people with Parkinson’s

Dr Frouke Hermens and Professor Timothy Hodgson were awarded a British Academy / Leverhulme small grant. The project will use new mobile eye tracking technology to investigate gaze coordination during social interactions in people with Parkinson’s. Earlier work has shown how eye movements in cognitive tasks are reduced in size (known as “amplitude hypometria”) in…

Grant from BA/ Leverhulme to investigate whether you can teach an old ear new tricks

Dr Niko Kargas and Dr Simon Durrant have been awarded £5,500 from the British Academy Leverhulme small research grant scheme to investigate “The effects of acoustic attributes of a native language on auditory processing skills and non-native speech perception in native English and Mandarin Chinese speakers.” By integrating psychology and musicology this project aims to…

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