2020-2022 Project title: Bridging the gap between grammar and language processing: an M/EEG investigation of gradient effects. Swiss National Science Foundation, Early Post Doc Mobility grant.
2018-2020. Project title: The nature of island constraints: a behavioral, neurophysiological and computational investigation. Fondazione Marica De Vincenzi Onlus for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Connecticut.
Awards
2015. Fondazione Marica De Vincenzi Onlus to the best paper by an Italian researcher without a tenure-track position selected for IGG (Incontro di Grammatica Generativa).
2011. Prize Optime. Unione Industriale, for outstanding graduates of the University of Torino (Italy).
2009-10. Best graduate student award, Department of Philosophy, University of Torino (Italy).
Research Fundings
2019. Connecticut Institute for the Brain and Cognitive Sciences (IBACS) Seed Grant funding “An empirical investigation of ungrammatical sentence processing”, (PI: Dr. Sandra Villata, Collaborators: Prof. Jon Sprouse, Prof. Whitney Tabor), $2300
2019. NBL Innovation Incentive funding, University of Connecticut funding “An investigation of gradient effects in ungrammatical sentences”, (PI: Dr. Sandra Villata, Collaborators: Prof. Jon Sprouse, Prof. Whitney Tabor), $1800
2017. Administration of Psychology, University of Geneva, CHF1713
2016. Conference on Human Sentence Processing, University of Geneva, $250
2016. Fonds General de l’Université, University of Geneva, CHF1800
2016. Société Académique de Genève, Fonds Paul Moriaud, University of Geneva, CHF2000
2015. Fondation Ernst et Lucie Schmidheiny, University of Geneva, CHF500
2014. Académie suisse des sciences humaines et sociales, University of Geneva, CHF700
2014. Société Académique de Genève, Fonds Alain Patry, University of Geneva, CHF1450
2013. Fond National Suisse, University of Geneva CHF4200
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