PhD Position: Network Neuroscience of Language at the Donders Centre for Cognition

The ERC project investigates language as an emergent property of distributed brain networks, integrating white-matter connectivity, functional neuroimaging and individual variability. Moving beyond classical localisationist accounts, the project aims to understand how language functions arise from large-scale network organisation and how these networks differ across individuals.

You will join the ERC Consolidator project EMERGENCE, which investigates how language networks arise from multi-scale neurobiological variability. The project combines multimodal neuroimaging (structural MRI, diffusion-weighted imaging, functional MRI), advanced connectomics, and receptor-enriched modelling to characterise individual differences in language organisation across healthy participants and clinical populations (e.g. stroke, brain tumour and neurodegenerative conditions). You will contribute to data preprocessing, and advanced analysis, including tractography, network modelling and computati...