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Two researchers from Trinity College Dublin, Rhodri Cusack and Richard Layte, have been announced yesterday as recipients of European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants. The duo are among just five researchers in Ireland to receive the coveted Advanced Grants awards from the ERC in this funding cycle. Advanced Grants give senior researchers the opportunity to pursue ambitious, curiosity-driven projects that could lead to major breakthroughs. The grants are part of the EU’s Horizon Europe programme. Richard Layte, Professor of Sociology, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, has secured a €2.5 million grant for a project to investigate how our relationships with those around us shape us and the consequences this has for educational development, health and well-being. Rhodri Cusack, Thomas Mitchell Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Trinity’s School of Psychology and Director of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN), has been awarded €3.5 million to investigate how human infants learn to understand the visual world during the first year of life. Read the full story here: https://lnkd.in/eqZHwdTn Trinity College Dublin, School of Psychology TCD School of Social Sciences & Philosophy