Project Grant 2002G009

This two-year, $158,962 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Old Dominion University to understand declines in sustained attention over time. Funded through the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the research will combine behavioral experiments with statistical modeling. Experiments in a driving simulator and other tasks will examine how automated controls, mental rest, task difficulty and dual-task loads affect vigilance....

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences provides $215,347 to Oregon State University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The funding supports research from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2025 to understand why vigilance declines over time through behavioral experiments and statistical modeling. The research will examine the types of errors people make during sustained attention...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $183,411 to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, to investigate how memory guides attention and visual exploration. The project seeks to determine the neural mechanisms by which memories stored in the hippocampus allow individuals to use past experiences to anticipate and attend to...

This Project Grant award of $910,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences supports research on the "Mechanisms of Willed Attention" at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis). This research, under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), aims to investigate the brain mechanisms that enable humans to voluntarily direct their attention, especially in the absence of external cues. Using...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) provides $714,203 to New York University (NYU) for a 3-year research project on how people adapt their planning behavior in response to uncertainty. The project aims to develop computational models that explain how people make tradeoffs between cognitive load and maximizing reward when facing stochasticity in their environments, such as unreliability,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $146,703 to Clemson University will fund research to understand how individual differences in cognitive abilities, specifically working memory and attention control, impact human performance when using automated systems. The project aims to gain a better theoretical understanding of attention control and its role in human-autonomy collaboration, as well as develop design...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) provides $277,536 over 3 years to The University of Tampa to conduct research on the executive control of working memory. The project aims to evaluate how people prioritize information held in working memory based on assigned value or importance, including investigating the consequences, mechanisms, and contextual requirements of this prioritization...

This $440,837 National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) grant awarded to the University of California, Berkeley aims to investigate the neural and computational mechanisms responsible for how people evaluate the costs and benefits of exerting mental effort on tasks. The research will model the explicit components of this cost-benefit analysis, including how people weigh potential outcomes, the efficacy of their efforts, and how to direct their...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), provides $475,715 to Vanderbilt University to advance understanding of how visual long-term memory guides visual attention and perception. The researchers will use electroencephalography to record brain activity from participants searching for objects in cluttered scenes. Analyses will reveal whether...

This $399,042 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to investigate audio-visual effects and their relationship to attentional control in the human brain. The research, conducted by Dartmouth College, aims to test whether spatial location serves as a mechanism for integrating visual and auditory information to form a coherent perceptual experience. The project will use a...