The Chinese Society of Neuroscience recently recognized six projects with the 2020 China Neuroscience Major Progress Awards and one of them awarded to Professor Mao Ying’s team. Mao is the Director of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute for Brain Health and Dean of Huashan Hospital. Mao’s team collaborated a team from the Wang Liping Research Institute and the Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences on a project called ” Assessing the depth of language processing in patients with disorders of consciousness.” The resulting paper was published in the journal Nature Neuroscience in May this year.