ERC Advanced Grant for research on senses and fast X-ray flashes

Radboud researchers Uta Noppeney and Peter Jonker have both been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). The amount of the Advanced Grant may vary, but it is about €2.5 million that can be used by the recipients to continue their research for the next five years. A total of €544 million in grants will be allocated to 218 projects across Europe in this round. MakingSense. Uta Noppeney, Professor of Systems Neuroscience affiliated with the Donders Institute, received an Advanced Grant for her project entitled 'Making Sense of the Senses: casual inference in a complex dynamic multisensory world'. Within this interdisciplinary project, Noppeney and her colleagues combine research in statistics, neuroscience, and behaviour to determine how well our brains convert the daily crossfire of signals into a coherent picture. To deal effectively with our complex and multisensory world, for example in busy traffic situations, the brain needs to process many signals quickly.