Joe Pater is the UMass PI for a new collaborative NSF grant “Inside Phonological Learning”, which will begin this fall, and last for three years. The aim of the grant is to better understand the contribution of implicit and explicit processes in laboratory studies of phonological learning, and it will use both behavioral and ERP studies in pursuit of that goal. At UMass, Pater is collaborating with co-PI Lisa Sanders of Psychological and Brain Sciences on the ERP studies, and PhD student Brandon Prickett will be the RA for the upcoming year. Pater and Sanders are working together with PI Elliott Moreton (UMass PhD 2002) and co-PI Katya Pertsova of UNC Chapel Hill on the behavioral studies. The total award for the UMass portion of the gramt is $378,432.