PROJECTS
FUNDED PROJECTS
(ongoing and recently completed)
CURRENT GRANTS
1) Acronym: NEDIS
Title: Neuromodulation and behavioral approaches for the improvement of dyslexia symptoms in Slovenian-speaking children and adolescents
Funding institution: ARIS (Slovenian Research Agency) Basic Research Grant 2023
PI: Christina Manouilidou
Collaborators: Kyrana Tsapkini (Johns Hopkins), Jure Bon (Psychiatric Clinic, Ljubljana), Milena Košar Babuder (Faculty of Education)
Duration: October 2023- September 2026
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/neurodyslexia?usp=sharing
2) Acronym: SAVANT
Title: Systematicity and Variation in Word Structure Processing Across Languages: a Neuro-Typology approach
Funding Institution: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
PI: Linnaea Stockall (Queen Mary University of London), Co-Is: Christina Manouilidou (University of Ljubljana), Alec Marantz (NYU, NYU Abu Dhabi)
Collaborators: Rok Žaucer, Samantha Wray, Dustin Alfonso Chacón
Duration: March 2021 – September 2024
Webpage: https://savant.qmul.ac.uk/
RECENTLY COMPLETED PROJECTS
1) Acronym: CogLiTreat
Title: Investigating the effectiveness of cognitive vs. linguistic treatment in language disorders: behavioral and transcranial magnetic stimulation approaches
Funding Institution: ARIS (Slovenian Research Agency) Basic Research Grant 2019
PI: Christina Manouilidou
Collaborators: Jure Bon, Zvedan Pirtošek, Tatjana Marvin, Damjana Kogovšek, Spyridoula Varlokosta, Michaela Nerantzini
Duration: July 2019- June 2023
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/coglitreat/home
2) ARRS (Slovenian Research Funding Agency) bilateral collaboration with the USA, Project: Investigating Language Decline in Dementia, held at Aphasia and Neurolinguistics Laboratory (Cynthia K. Thompson), Northwestern University, USA, 2018-2019.
3) Karatheodori 2013, Funding organization: University of Patras, Project ΕΟ43: lexical and morphological knowledge in Greek-speaking individuals with primary progressive aphasia. Duration: 2014-2017
4) Fulbright Visiting Scholar Grant, Funding organization: Fulbright Foundation. Project Title: primary progressive aphasia: the dementia of language. Aim: to conduct research at the Aphasia and Neurolinguistics Laboratory – headed by Cynthia K. Thompson, Northwestern University, USA. Duration: April-May 2014, Amount: 6,000$
5) Ad Futura - Slovenian Human Resources Development and Scholarship Fund (to conduct research as foreign researcher at the Institute of Neurophysiology, University Medical Centre, Ljubljana, Slovenia). October 2010 – March 2011.
6) Ad Futura – Slovenian Human Resources Development and Scholarship Fund (to teach at the Medical School, University of Ljubljana, Central European Master’s in Cognitive Science). April 2011 – June 2011.
(as collaborator)
1) Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation, Project: Language and Executive Function Intervention Strategies in Language Disorders (LEFIELD), 2019 – 2022. PI: Spyridoula Varlokosta https://psychoneurolinglab.wordpress.com/research/
2) ARRS (Slovenian Research Funding Agency), Project: Impulse behavior sprectrum disorders in patients with parkinson’s disease: epidemiology, biomarkers, various factors and therapeutic options. 2018-2021, PI: Zvezdan Pirtošek.
3) Leibniz University Hannover - Fritz Thyssen Stiftung Project: Granularität im Lexikon: eine sprachvergleichende empirische Untersuchung von Wortfeldern (Granularity in the lexicon: a cross-linguistic empirical study of lexical fields). 2014, PI: Katerina Stathi, http://www.fritz-thyssen-stiftung.de/
4) Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Research Office, Project: Linguistic Features in Primary Progressive Aphasia: an experimental approach on transitive and intransitive verbs. 2012 – 2013, PI: Stavroula Stavrakaki
5) Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Project: Evolution of Semantic Systems. 2011 – 2013, PIs: Asifa Majid, Fiona Jordan, Michael Dunn. http://www.mpi.nl/eoss
6) ARRS – Slovenian Research Funding Agency. Project: Early detection and rational therapy of dementia: the role of biomarkers. Amount: 300,000 euros. 2011 – 2014, PI: Zvezdan Pirtošek.
Other international research collaborations
Collaboration of Aphasia Trials (CATs), Glasgow Caledonian University, (joined in December 2022)
https://www.aphasiatrials.org/
Discourse in Psychosis International Consortium
https://discourseinpsychosis.org/
Enabling multilingual eye-tracking data collection for human and machine language processing research (MultiplEYE), University of Copenhagen, PI: N. Hollenstein (joined in November 2022)
https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA21131
ENglish Reading Online, McMaster University in Haskins Laboratories, PIs: V. Kuperman & N. Siegelman, 2021 – currently. https://meco-read.com/enro/
Multilingual Eye-tracking Corpus, McMaster University in Haskins Laboratories, PIs: V. Kuperman & N. Siegelman, 2021 – currently. https://meco-read.com/enro/
Words in the World Partnered Research Training Initiative, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, (SSHRC), PI G. Libben, 2018 – currently www.wordsintheworld.ca
Semantic Priming Across Many Languages (SPAML), Psychological Science Accelerator, https://psysciacc.org/psa-007-spam-l/, (joined in January 2023)