Cognitive Neuroscience
"To support world-class research in UK centres of excellence."
Summary of Cognitive Neuroscience programmes
List of grants paid during 2005 - 2006
Links to beneficiaries
For further information download the 2006 Annual Report
Summary of Cognitive Neuroscience programmes
The Trustees continue to remain committed to the nurturing and expansion of cognitive and systems neuroscience in the UK, their main focus being the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit and associated grants at University College London.
The Trustees are advised by a committee comprising:
- Professor Tim Shallice (Senior Adviser)
- Professor Horace Barlow
- Professor Peter Dayan
- Dr Roger Freedman
List of grants paid during 2005 - 2006
| 2005-2006 | |
| Total | £2,795,334 |
| Total payments made in 2005 - 2006 (from new and previous grants) | |
| University of Cambridge - Cavendish Laboratory | £116,501 |
| Towards Dr David MacKay's fellowship and the Dasher project | |
| University College London | £71,922 |
| Towards Dr Michael Häusser's research programme to study the cellular basis of neural computation. | |
| University College London, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit | £1,850,347 |
| Towards core funding. | |
| University of Columbia, USA | £633,795 |
| Towards the Gatsby Initiative in Brain Circuitry research. | |
| University of Sheffield | £56,074 |
| Towards Dr Mikko Juusola's project entitled 'Principles of neural coding in "in vivo" fruitfly, Drosphila. | |
| The beneficiaries below received grant payments totalling less than £50,000 | |
| Cognitive Neuroscience Specialist Meetings | £49,957 |
| University of Bristol | £17,500 |
| Small grants were paid to other organisations in this category totalling £1,000 | |