The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $190,215 Project Grant under its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of South Florida (USF) to conduct collaborative research on linking saccadic eye movement behavior to cognitive and linguistic processing during goal-directed reading. The project aims to better understand the relationship between brain activity and reading behavior, and how this relationship changes under different reading tasks...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $178,400 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Utah. The 3.5-year grant, commencing on June 1, 2024, will fund research to link saccadic eye movement behavior to cognitive-linguistic processing during goal-directed reading. The project aims to gain a better understanding of the brain mechanisms underlying reading processes, and how they change under different reading goals, such...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $466,640 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to The Trustees of Princeton University. The award, titled "CAREER: The Receptive Field as a Window into the Developing Brain," supports research to measure how the parietal lobe and cerebellum in the brain mature during typical development and support a child's ability to visually attend to their environment. The project aims to understand...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $802,000 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). The grant funding will support a 3-year study to use behavioral and brain measures to investigate individual differences in auditory and written word inferencing skills among grade school children from low socioeconomic status homes. The goal is to identify factors...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075), supports research into the factors that influence how humans speak and understand language. The $407,738 award to Vanderbilt University will investigate the impact of an individual's daily language exposure, cognitive abilities, and reading habits on their preferences and performance when processing complex English sentence structures. The project...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $154,395 Project Grant to the San Diego State University (SDSU) Research Foundation to acquire electroencephalography (EEG) and eye tracking equipment for a co-registration system. This major research instrument will enable simultaneous measurement of brain activity and eye movements during reading and visual tasks with millisecond precision. The co-registration system will advance the understanding of cognitive...
This two-year $138,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) will fund an EEG investigation of temporal orienting of attention for goal-directed eye and hand movements at Providence, Rhode Island. The grant aims to contribute to basic research in the social, behavioral and economic sciences by supporting the monitoring of resources invested in science. Key products will include an EEG study exploring how the brain...
The University of Chicago was awarded a $499,999 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation on May 1, 2021 to complete work by April 30, 2024. The grant is part of the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to promote basic research and education in these fields. Under the award, the University will predict attention fluctuations and their consequences for memory from functional brain connectivity. The research will contribute to scientific...
This $223,136 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the causes and consequences of early quitting in visual search tasks. Funded under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the two-year award to Connecticut College will investigate how distracting objects can alter decision-making processes and cause individuals to terminate searches earlier than they otherwise would. Researchers will use various experimental protocols and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $341,347 to the University of California, Davis to conduct research on attentional guidance and decision-making processes during visual search tasks. The project aims to understand the organizing principles that enable efficient visual search, which has significant implications for daily life. Through behavioral experiments, eye-tracking, virtual...