Project Grant 1234467082

This $369,186 National Science Foundation project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will fund research at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to advance understanding of human perception, behavior and learning in museum environments. Using computational methods including 3D motion capture and machine learning, the Museum Associates organization will transform a LACMA gallery into a laboratory to study visitor interactions with artworks and...

This Project Grant award of $476,451.00 from the National Eye Institute (NEI), under the Vision Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.867), will fund a comprehensive research study on the development of the human dorsal visual cortex. The primary objectives are to: 1) Produce detailed functional and structural atlases charting the maturation of dorsal visual stream representations and underlying neural tissue structures across childhood, adolescence, and adulthood; and 2) Determine how broader...

Federal Grant Award Summary Design Onscreen received a $1.4 million Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to produce a documentary film titled "Florence Knoll: Nothing Left to Chance." The award, issued on January 1, 2026, with a completion date of December 31, 2026, supports the creation of a documentary examining the life and professional contributions of architect and designer Florence...

This EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075), supports research to investigate the use of pupil size as a tool for detecting mental imagery in humans and potentially other primates. The $199,552 award to Emory University will fund experiments to determine whether changes in pupil size can index the presence of visual imagery, even in individuals...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Eye Institute (NEI) under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867) awarded $2,143,860 to the Regents of the University of California, doing business as University of California, Berkeley, on August 11, 2025, for a project titled "Mechanisms for Generative Vision in the Primate Ventral Stream." The project, scheduled for completion by June 30, 2030, investigates how the primate brain's visual system implements the "analysis by...

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under CFDA 93.310 Trans-NIH Research Support provides $1,177,273 to the University of Pittsburgh to conduct research on understanding the principles of phosphene fusion in high-channel-count visual prostheses. The project aims to develop detailed, empirically driven, and behaviorally validated models of neuronal activation during electrical stimulation of the visual cortex to predict the perceptual...

This $168,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the acquisition of artificial resynthesis technology (ART) by Loyola University of Chicago. ART is an innovative chewing simulator that will replicate oral biomechanics to further interdisciplinary research and education in oral biology. It will allow researchers to study dental wear patterns in humans and other species, helping to unravel contributions of diet and exogenous abrasives to tooth wear over time. Clinically, ART will...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded Headfirst Arts & Media, Inc. a $500,000 Project Grant on September 1, 2025, under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to produce "Diary from the Ashes," an 86-minute television documentary. The project will chronicle the life and diary of Rywka Lipszyc, a 14-year-old girl whose diary was discovered in the rubble of an Auschwitz crematorium in 1945 and remained...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $1,646,782 in funding to Trustees of Boston University over 5 years to develop a brain-inspired algorithm for complex scene analysis. The key products and services being delivered include: The research integrates three interdisciplinary threads to develop this algorithm: Using brain imaging and machine learning to decode...

This Project Grant award of $435,825.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science, provided under CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences, supports research at Western Washington University (WWU) to investigate the use of strategic anthropomorphic animal imagery (SAAIS) to activate empathy, promote conservation behaviors, and engage diverse populations. The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year project include:...