Professor Richard Morris, FRS (Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems) has been successful in securing the first European Research Council Advanced Investigator award in the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. He will hold this grant, for Euro 3.05 Million, jointly with Professor Dr Guillen Fernandez of the Donders Institute for Neuromaging in Nijmegen, Holland. The aim of the work is to take a radical new step towards analysis of the neuroscience of learning and memory that, for the first time, will incorporate ideas about the role of prior-knowledge and schema.

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