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A range of cutting-edge neuroscience techniques will be used to map the cortical areas and their activation time course in speech production and comprehension tasks along with their functional contributions to the processes required for these tasks. A main focus will be on the relative contributions

Our project first aims at developing a method for measuring strategic uncertainty aversion. Our main idea is to elicit the willingness to pay for participating in a game and subjective probabilities for the potential payoffs in this game. The difference between the subjectively expected payoff and t

This transnational project lays the foundations for the history of psychiatric practices at the time of the rise of modern psychopharmacology. Focusing on the diversity of Continental Europe's post-war psychiatry will challenge both the biological-Kraepelinian paradigm (with its drug-related diagnos

This proposal picks up the concept of “medialisation of science” that has been taken up more widely to describe the increasing role of mass media in current societal changes. It implies that scientists, research organizations and scientific publishers actively adapt to media logics and seek media co

In recent years, progress has been made both in the digitisation of Indian manuscripts as well as in the field of codicology, setting new standards for cataloguing. The trend is towards putting online the images along with elaborate catalogues. One important aspect of well-catalogued digital collect

Speech temporal organization provides us with a window into the cognitive-neural and physiological-articulatory bases of the human language production system, but cross-linguistic variation in this domain remain understudied. This project fills this gap by comparative studies of spontaneously spoken

This project deals with relationships between religious communities in Tours which kept saint Martin's inheritance (ie Marmoutier, which he founded,and St Martin which gathered around his tomb), their links and competition as well as their networks. It will also deal with their relationships with o

Germanic languages, with the major exception of Modern English, are characterized by the regular occurrence of the finite verb in second position in main clauses, a property known as ‘verb second’ (V2). In the classical approach, this configuration is assumed to result from the attraction of the fin

The term “soft law” refers to a number of different instruments such as recommendations or guidelines that do not have legal enforcement power but have substantial political and legal effects. Nevertheless, we know little about why member states or EU institutions use soft or hard law in policy-maki

Research on consumer animosity indicates that consumers reject specific products or services due to their animosity towards the country of origin. The current body of literature employed an individual-centered perspective and explored the antecedents, moderators, and behavioral consequences of the a

This project grows out of a collaboration within the ANR-DFG project DYNTRAN: Dynamics of Transmission: Families, Authority and Knowledge in the Early Modern Middle East (15th-17th Centuries). During that project, a subgroup of individuals discussed interest in continuing a partnership centered arou

Within Western societies, the issue of migration is often accompanied by high levels of public anxiety and translates to a significant increase of the use of hate speech towards immigrants and minorities. Social media seem to be a fertile ground for hate speech. Focusing on the social dimension

For quite some time, the uncertain futures of democracy have been debated by social scientists and philosophers. DemoFutures will analyze current trends and possible futures in the mid- and long-term, bringing together perspectives from sociological theory and political philosophy in a critical pers