January 15, 2014
Researchers in CEU's Department of Cognitive Science will receive €11 million in grants from the European Research Council's Synergy and Consolidator Grant programs. Meant to combine the expertise and research of small groups of experts, a €9.6 million Synergy Grant was awarded to CEU's Gyorgy Gergely, Gunther Knoblich, and Dan Sperber. They will study cultural knowledge transmission, focusing on non-verbal ways that humans “pass on” culture through generations.
