Two LABlab researchers win John Fell Fund grants for 2025-2026

John Fell, Bishop of Oxford

Dr Isabella Fritz’s project ‘Bilingual Word Production’ researches the bilingual mental lexicon by investigating language production of complex words. Using electroencephalography (EEG), she will look to measure brain activity during the production planning process in highly proficient English language learners whose first language is German.

 
Dr Hilary Wynne’s project ‘Eliciting language-specific signatures for expertise in the human brain’ will use behavioural techniques combined with EEG to examine how pilots employ contextual cues in sentences to process language in the field of aviation. Working with an external partner, Mr Henry Emery at Latitude Aviation English Services, she will look at establishing how violations in standardised constructions affect the expert brain.

The John Fell Fund is an internal University of Oxford research fund financed by Oxford University Press.