Conor Houghton
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The latest news
(2024-10-22) George wins funding for:
Collecting and analysing multilingual EEG data
George Sains is a doctoral teaching associate in my lab; this means he is partly a PhD student and partly involved in teaching, something like an American style PhD student with TA duties. He recently apply to the Jean Golding Institute
for seedcorn funding to run an EEG study, unusually for a student with a computational background George has from the start wanted to run an experiment. We have just heard his application was successful.
George has been working on the analysis of EEG data building on early work by Davide Turco:
Bayesian modeling of language-evoked event-related potentials
Davide Turco and Conor Houghton
Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN 2022)
arxiv.org/abs/2207.0339
We have had some interesting results that tell a fascinating story about grammar and the brain. The next stage demands multi-lingual data: recording from speakers of different languages. To this end George will record EEG data from English and Chinese speakers. This will in collaboration with the Bristol Digital Futures Institute:
www.bristol.ac.uk/bristol-digital-futures-institute/
The award will pay experimental costs and participant fees and also includes some help from the Jean Golding Institute data scientists to improve our data workflow, which is very cool. We are excited to see what George finds!