The results of the European Research Council’s Consolidator Grants have been published last week These grants fund projects conducted by researchers with seven to twelve years of experience from their doctorate. Researcher Judith Domínguez Borràs was awarded this prestigious grant, which will contribute to expanding her research projects.

Judith Domínguez Borràs, tenure-track 1 lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology and member of the Institute of Neurosciences of the UB (UBNeuro), will study the existence in humans of a potential neural pathway for detecting dangers that would connect the auditory system with the tonsil, the main structure of fear processing. The project Uncovering the human subcortical pathway for auditory threat detection (HumanSUBthreat), funded with 1.9 million euros, aims to join “the auditory system in the current models of emotional processing, which would help to understand some clinical conditions currently known to be related to a dysfunction in the visual homologue pathway, such as anxiety or schizophrenia”.