Project Grant 2117009

This $649,380 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) supports the creation of a database containing information about how public figures and leaders at the national, state, and local levels in the U.S. communicate and engage on social media and other online public forums. The project will develop measures to assess aspects of public figures' online...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) provides $319,908 to the University of Pittsburgh to construct a database containing information on how public leaders at the national, state, and local levels communicate through social media and other public online forums. The database will capture measures of public figures' online transparency, responsiveness, and...

This $182,324 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) will fund the development of tools to quantify and analyze temporal patterns of multimodal communication behavior between individuals in face-to-face and virtual dyadic conversations. The key activities include convening a multidisciplinary expert team to discuss ethics, paradigm development, and computational frameworks; building...

This $249,318 National Science Foundation Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences award funds a two-year project from August 2021 to July 2023 titled "Computational Methods for Speech Analysis." The Washington University is the primary awardee, with subawards to the University of Pennsylvania. The project extends existing computational speech analysis packages and applies them to new datasets, including campaign speeches and police body-worn camera footage. It involves extracting...

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a 5-year, $409,280 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to The Trustees of Princeton University. The grant will fund the "CRCNS: Building and Testing Computational Models of the Neural Basis of Natural Communication" project, which aims to: Create a dataset of 750 hours of continuous electrocorticography (ECoG) data from epilepsy...

This $2,308,368 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of the Director under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) supports research to investigate the relationship between visual attention, multimodal communication cues, and expressive language development in typically developing children and those with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The research, led by Vanderbilt University Medical Center, will leverage existing datasets and conduct new...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $186,479 to Oregon State University to study multilingual speech recognition in the human brain. Researchers will record neural responses from monolingual, bilingual, and trilingual individuals as they listen to speech in languages they understand. They will use tools from computational neuroscience to develop cognitive theories and neural network models...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program ($149,426) supports a comparative study of public opinion and elite rhetoric in the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany during the Russian invasion of Ukraine from May 2022 through April 2023. Led by researchers at Stony Brook University, the award allows for collection and analysis of survey and social media data to examine concepts like "rally around the flag" and...

The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to researchers at the University of Michigan from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2023. The grant funds a research project titled "The Temporal Organization of Prosody in Multimodal Speech and Co-Speech Gestures" under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This Project Grant will support research contributing to scientific understanding of the...

This $430,375 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), part of the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) federal grant program, aims to validate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) techniques applied to video and speech data for objectively evaluating social interaction and mental health in individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). The project will be carried out by Emory University, a...