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Professor Timothy T. Rogers is the principal investigator of the Knowledge and Concepts Laboratory currently in the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and moving to the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London in summer 2026. His research areas include Biology of Brain and Behavior, Developmenta…

Dr Fatemeh Geranmayeh is an MRC funded Clinician Scientist at the Department of Brain Sciences, Imperial College London, where she leads the Clinical Language and Cognition (CLC) group. She is also an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. She obtained a First Class Honours BSc degree in Neuroscience in 2004 for w…

On Friday 16 May 2025, Dr Alexis Deighton MacIntyre and Dr Jérémy Giroud led a Cambridge Language Sciences-funded workshop on the neural decoding of speech and language at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. This analytical approach seeks systematic correspondences over time between a stimulus and the brain. More specifically, "decoding" can…

Dr Guy Emerson is an Academic Fellow in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge, and Executive Director of Cambridge Language Sciences. He also teaches as a College Lecturer at Gonville & Caius College. Guy was in conversation with Shrankhla Pandey, a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science and Tec…

We are pleased to announce that five workshops have been awarded funding in the latest round of the Workshop Fund. More details will be available on the Language Sciences website closer to the workshop dates.The following two workshops are funded directly through the Language Science budget:Sociolinguistic Variation in Ancient Languages. Towards Th…

New Call for Language Sciences Workshop Fund, 18 July2025The Language Sciences Workshop Fund offers funding for the organisation and delivery of interdisciplinary workshops on any relevant topic to researchers in language sciences. However, this round, which is funded by our AI@Cam project “Improving Language Equity and Inclusion through AI”, is re…

New call for Language Sciences Incubator Fund, 1 April 2025The Language Sciences Incubator Fund offers seed funding to support innovative and interdisciplinary research in language sciences.In this round, we are inviting AI-focused proposals related to our AI@Cam project “Improving Language Equity and Inclusion through AI” Funding of up to £5,000 i…

We are delighted to announce that nine new projects have been awarded seed funding in the latest Incubator Fund round. Posters on the funded research will be presented at future Cambridge Language Sciences Symposium events. We also hope to feature more information about these projects on the Language Sciences website in due course.The following two…

Explore Language Sciences at the Cambridge Festival!19 March – 4 April 2025Join us at the Cambridge Festival for a fascinating lineup of events exploring the many dimensions of Language Sciences. Discover cutting-edge research from newborn communication signals to how identity drives language change. Meet Furhat, the conversational robot, and explo…

Dr Rachael Griffiths and Dr Marieke Meelen led a successful workshop on Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) at Trinity Hall last November. The event was funded by Cambridge Language Sciences, following an open call for workshops to promote the sharing of research methods between disciplines.Over the course of the day, participants from History, Angl…

‘How can learning a language be made effortless?’This ‘moonshot’ question was the focus of this year’s Language Sciences Annual Symposium which took place on 21 November at Cripps Court, Magdalene College.The moonshots are ambitious questions of societal importance developed as part of Cambridge Language Sciences’ strategy to address large-scale ch…

New call for Language Sciences Incubator FundCambridge Language Sciences invites applications for the Language Sciences Incubator Fund, offering seed funding to support interdisciplinary research in the language sciences.This round offers additional funding opportunities for AI-focused proposals. We have the following funding opportunities availabl…

Henriëtte Hendriks is Professor of Language Acquisition and Cognition in the Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics at the University of Cambridge.Her research focuses on the relationship between language and cognition, and she is particularly interested on how children acquire their first language compared to how adults learn a secon…

Saloni Krishnan is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist whose research focuses on childhood communication disorders, such as DLD (developmental language disorder) and dyslexia. Saloni is based at UCL Language and Cognition, where she is Associate Professor in Developmental Language Sciences. Saloni has received funding from the Academy of Medic…

Dr Emma James is a Lecturer in the Department of Psychology at the University of York. Her research focuses on the fundamental processes of how both children and adults learn, drawing upon memory, language and literacy research.  She investigates key questions such as: How do we learn and retain new words? How do these processes change across devel…