Grants
Discover our recent grant successes and read about the specific projects related to them.
The Centre for Clinical, Social and Cognitive Neuroscience produces neuroscience research that seeks to understand, transform, and enrich the lives of individuals and communities through improved understanding of the biological underpinnings of the human experience, with emphasis on mental health and wellbeing, social interaction and decision making (e.g., in law, education and the work field).
To do so, we take a unique transdisciplinary approach that will embrace a diversity of perspectives because we believe that methodological and theoretical pluralism can help us to address the complex issues that global societies face today and in the future.
Research conducted by the Centre aims to bridge a gap between questions on fundamental aspects of human cognition and their neurological basis, and applied research that has direct impact for stakeholders in the general population, as well as clinical populations. Focused research on the mechanisms of cognitive and social processes is necessary to guide innovative and effective evidence-based solutions and interventions that address real-life challenges.
Our ambitious research programme is supported by a regular seminar and meeting schedule and realized by over 26 members of academic staff and 21 post-graduate students using state-of-art methodological approaches.
Featured Grants
Neurodiversity in the workplace
- Dr Danai Dima
- Professor Sebastian Gaigg
- UKRI Innovate UK
- Autistica
- £248,087
Danai Dima and Sebastian Gaigg received funding of £248,087 from UKRI Innovate UK and Autistica for a 30-month Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) to validate and promote an accreditation scheme that demonstrates how well businesses include and support neurodivergent individuals in the workplace.
Limitations in bounded-rational probability updating
- Professor Emmanuel Pothos
- AFOSR Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- £163,895.55
- 01/11/2022
This research project concerns the application of quantum theory on cognitive modelling — specifically decision making. We call quantum theory the probability rules from quantum mechanics, without any of the physics. Why might quantum theory be relevant in cognition? Probabilities are at the heart of human behaviour, but representing probabilities classically (in the Bayesian sense) provides a challenge of intractable complexity. Quantum theory can be thought of as Bayesian theory, but in partitions: within a partition, everything is Bayesian, but between partitions non-classical effects (which appear like fallacies) arise. We are interested in understanding how these ideas can help us with various apparent behavioural paradoxes. One focus is the less is more effect and we have been running various experiments to diagnose it.
Using computational modelling to characterise and plan treatments for psychosis subtypes
- Dr Dimitrios Pinotsis
- MRC Medical Research Council
- £88,574.40
- 06/07/2022
This project focuses on the analysis of electrophysiology data from schizophrenia patients and animal models. The aim is to develop mechanistic descriptions of brain circuits and pathology. This is a UKRI Future Leaders Grant and is the result of a collaboration between City, UCL and Kings. The grant focuses on understanding pathophysiology at different levels (genetic, cellular, network) by analyzing multiscale brain data recorded using different modalities
All grants
2023
Andreas Kappes
Project Title: Does biased learning contribute to the development of dysfunctional interpersonal behaviours within Personality Disorders?
Funder: West London NHS Trust
£3,000.00
Bid Awarded Date: 12/06/2023
2022
Andreas Kappes
Project Title: Expert Advice in Uncertain Times: How do Changes and Disagreements Impact how much People Follow Expert Advice
Funder: British Academy
£8,650.82
Bid Awarded Date: 15/03/2022
Dimitrios Pinotsis
Project Title: Resubmission: Analysis of integrated brain functions using hemogenetic imaging
Funder: NIH National Institutes of Health
£113,746.30
Bid Awarded Date: 04/03/2022
2021
Bettina Forster
Project Title: Under your skin: the role of one’s somatosensory cortex when seeing touch
Funder: Bial Foundation
£33,898.30
Bid Awarded Date: 06/01/2021
2020
Corinna Haenschel
Project Title: Can the time needed to process visual information following a saccade be used to predict variations in neural measures of working memory and well-being?
Funder: Bial Foundation, City University of London
£35,593.19
Bid Awarded Date: 10/12/2020
Dimitrios Pinotsis
Project Title: Development of an AI system to identify problem gambling cues
Funder: Gambling Commission
£201,602.99
Bid Awarded Date: 29/06/2020
Lucia Garrido
Project Title: EPS small grant Garrido March 2020
Funder: Experimental Psychology Society
£3,500.00
Bid Awarded Date: 17/04/2020
Dimitrios Pinotsis
Project Title: The self as agent-environment nexus (Canada -UK AI initiative)
Funder: ESRC Economic and Social Research Council
£123,924.74
Bid Awarded Date: 10/01/2020
2019
Sebastian Gaigg
Project Title: Accelerating a more inclusive science of autism through the Complex Needs Research and Development Hub (COMRAD)
Funder: Autistica
£125,743.18
Bid Awarded Date: 27/11/2019
2018
Danai Dima
Project Title: ENIGMA World Aging Center
Funder: NIH National Institutes of Health
£12,789.28
Bid Awarded Date: 01/12/2018
Sebastian Gaigg
Project Title: Autism through cinema: body language and the illegible body
Funder: Wellcome Trust
£11,696.67
Bid Awarded Date: 09/11/2018
Emmanuel Pothos
Project Title: Anticipating decisions and Bell’s bound.
Funder: ONR Office of Naval Research
£115,613.46
Bid Awarded Date: 24/10/2018