First of all, we have a new doctor in the house! (Now Dr) Michal Korenar succesfully defended his thesis this week, and passed without corrections! Congratulations Dr Korenar!
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Michal will soon leave the lab, but the show must go on! So earlier this term we welcomed our new recruit, Alex Sheehan! Alex’s PhD is funded by the ESRC SeNSS DTP, and he will invesigate will investigate the impact of linguistic experiences on structural and functional brain connectivity, and neural efficiency. We are looking forward to this very interesting project!
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