Cooperative Agreement 1041707

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $337,206 Project Grant titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: THE DEVELOPMENTAL COURSE OF CEREBRAL LATERALIZATION FOR SPACE AND LANGUAGE" to Georgetown University. This 4-year grant, which began on Aug 1, 2023, supports research to investigate how the brain's hemispheric specialization for language and visual-spatial abilities develops in children ages 5-11. Using behavioral testing and functional...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (47.076) program aims to enhance undergraduate students' success in STEM disciplines by investigating the role of spatial reasoning skills and developing effective training methods. The $518,564 project, awarded to Louisiana State University (LSU) and running from July 2023 to June 2027, has three primary objectives: 1) identify the neural and cognitive processes underlying mental rotation, a key aspect of spatial...

This $750,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program will fund the design and development of the SMILE (Scan to Multi-Sensorial Interactive Learning Environment) infrastructure. The key objectives are: (1) Nearly automated construction of virtual reality (VR) environments mimicking real-world indoor scenes; (2) Multi-sensorial interactions with virtual objects involving touch, visual, aural, and olfactory...

This $511,527 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) aims to investigate the developmental trajectory of cerebral lateralization for language and visual-spatial abilities in children aged 5 to 11. The research team at The Johns Hopkins University will use behavioral testing and functional brain imaging to examine how brain activation patterns change over...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $160,000 supports an early career postdoctoral research fellowship examining how children acquire vocabulary related to spatial relations. The research, conducted under the sponsorship of Dr. John Trueswell at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Barbara Landau at Johns Hopkins University, will investigate how typically developing children learn the meanings of spatial terms...

This $175,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at Southern Illinois University (SIU) on "UNITED LEARNING: DATA-SHAREABLE HETEROGENEOUS DISTRIBUTED LEARNING". The project aims to develop new techniques for integrating low-resource devices like personal computers and IoT devices into the training of complex deep learning models. This will be achieved through two...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $634,950 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Central Florida (UCF) to develop an Artificial Intelligence-based conversational framework (iLab) for enhancing simulation-based science learning for middle school students and teachers. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Creating an intelligent conversational agent (SimPAL) that will...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) provides $300,809 to Saint Louis University (SLU) from September 15, 2024 to August 31, 2027 to explore the integration of reconfigurable sensorimotor interfaces into educational STEM simulations. The project will use co-design processes to create "teletangibles", which are haptic input/output devices that can be used to embody STEM concepts and support the learning of both...

The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $424,394 project grant to Michigan State University on August 1, 2021 for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: USING AI-ENABLED SMART OBJECTS TO UNDERSTAND AND SUPPORT SPATIAL REASONING AND LEARNING." The award is being carried out under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in these fields as well as monitoring science...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) aims to enhance student learning and engagement in large lecture STEM courses. The $103,426 award to the University of Pittsburgh supports the development and optimization of a digital learning environment called CourseMirror that uses natural language processing (NLP) techniques to prompt and scaffold...