Project Grant 2118103
- The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $372,241 project grant to President And Fellows Of Harvard College from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2023. The grant supports collaborative research titled "Loopholes as a Window into the Learning of Meaning" under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The research aims to contribute to understanding how people learn the meanings of words and concepts. It seeks...
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. The grant will support MIT's "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NCS-FO: STUDYING LANGUAGE IN THE BRAIN IN THE MODERN MACHINE LEARNING ERA" project from September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2025. Under this award, MIT researchers will study human language processing and representation in the brain using modern machine...
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received an $850,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The award funds the expansion of the Lookit/Children Helping Science online platform to support additional types of psychological and educational research involving children. Specifically, the platform will be enhanced to accommodate...
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $150,945 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on March 1, 2021 for collaborative research titled "Context Dependence Across Categories: Bridging Developmental, Experimental, and Theoretical Perspectives." The research is being conducted under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences. Specifically, the...
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) on December 1, 2021 to fund research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FOUNDATIONS OF DEEP LEARNING: THEORY, ROBUSTNESS, AND THE BRAIN?" through November 30, 2024. The award is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $320,133 project grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for collaborative research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: COMPCOG: ADVERSARIAL COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ON INTUITIVE PHYSICAL REASONING." The award period is from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2024. The research will be conducted under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to contribute...
- This $272,750 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports fundamental research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on how people make decisions and interact based on information. The key research focuses include: 1) understanding the long-term implications of people's limited or imperfect memory, which can lead to overconfidence and neglect of rare events; 2) examining how people decide...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science awarded a $245,721 Project Grant to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for collaborative research titled "Information and Markets." The three-year award runs from August 1, 2021 through July 31, 2024 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The funding will support research examining how information impacts markets. The Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program...
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $108,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations to support collaboration research on probabilistic, geometric, and topological analysis of neural networks from theory to applications. The two-year award, issued on January 1, 2022 and set to conclude on December 31, 2024, will fund research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA #47.049). This...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $450,000 Project Grant to the University of Massachusetts (UMass) under the NSF Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2026, will fund research on the cognitive mechanisms supporting the production of sentences involving recursion and displacement across different languages. The project aims to use structural priming...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded a $290,454 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences to conduct collaborative research titled "LOOPHOLES AS A WINDOW INTO THE LEARNING OF MEANING." The two-year project grant, awarded September 1, 2021 with a completion date of August 31, 2023, will fund research under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program supports basic research and education in the social, behavioral and economic sciences, as well as monitoring investments in science. MIT researchers will study how children learn the meanings of words from context clues, with the goal of advancing scientific understanding of language acquisition. The $290k in funding will support the collaborative research project over its two years.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $290.5k | 8/19/21 |