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New Dr. and proud (first-time!) supervisor
18th September 2026
Our very own Elena Mainetto successfully defended her PhD thesis, “The Role of Dopamine in Word Meaning Inference,” at Radboud University, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour. π
Elena’s work advanced our understanding of how dopamine shapes the neural processes behind inferring and representing word meaning during language processing - tying together psycholinguistics, psychopharmacology, functional MRI, and computational modelling. Thesis
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