The National Science Centre published the ranking list of five projects recommended for financing under calls for SYMFONIA 4 proposals announced by the NCN on the 15th November, 2015. SYMFONIA is a funding opportunity intended for exceptional established researchers wanting to carry out interdisciplinary or cross-domain research in collaboration with teams representing different areas of research.

Among the winners is a consortium of scientists from the Nicolaus Copernicus University, the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology PAS and the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing. The research will be led by prof. dr hab. inż. Andrzej Cichocki and the head of the Nencki team will be dr hab. Ewa Kublik.

The research is aimed to understand the way in which activity of particular brain structures shapes the signals registered by the basic neuroimaging research methods – EEG and fMRI.  New, robust analytical tools will be elaborated which will make make the electroencephalography a much more valuable tool in neuroscience and clinical practice