Project Grant 2218024
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $551,706 provides funding from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). North Carolina State University will conduct three related studies to develop and test evidence-based communication strategies for improving public perception of museum biological collections and research. A content analysis of prominent natural history museums' social media posts will examine how...
- This $323,388 award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research project to examine how smart technological environments can be optimized to augment collective learning and creativity. The research aims to investigate the parameters that drive group-directed learning in three key areas: cooperative behavior, collective intelligence, and collective creativity. The project involves large-scale...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $443,888 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to test theories of perceptual valuation using advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques. The project aims to: 1) determine if deep neural network machine learning models can serve as proxies for people's internal models of visual objects, 2)...
- This Project Grant award of $346,803, provided by the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), supports research at the University of Chicago to test theories underlying what makes certain stimuli more memorable than others. The project aims to understand the underlying brain mechanisms that determine what information is prioritized for storage in human memory. The research utilizes behavioral experiments, brain imaging, and artificial...
- This $200,256 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports the Elemental Analysis Facility (EAF) at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. The EAF provides non-destructive compositional analysis of archaeological materials such as ceramics, glass, metals, and pigments, enabling research on trade, exchange, and technology development in complex ancient societies. The grant funds the EAF's...
- This federal Project Grant award of $301,800.00 from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) supports a research project led by Yale University to study the neural mechanisms of object cognition using multilevel computational modeling. The overarching hypothesis is that the brain implements object cognition by building and manipulating generative models of physical scenes, their dynamics, and sensory inputs. The project aims to develop...
- This federal Project Grant award, valued at $108,757, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to San Diego State University Foundation. The award, effective August 15, 2024 through July 31, 2026, supports a collaborative research project that investigates changes in prehistoric human foraging, mobility patterns, and population dynamics in response to environmental change during the later Pleistocene. The research...
- This $373,993 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research study on the cognitive and embodied processes involved in geometry learning. The research team at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will collect and analyze data on students' body movements, speech, and interactions as they play a mathematics learning game designed to encourage physical engagement. Using AI-powered...
- This $379,937 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a computational research project at Yale University investigating how humans infer social relationships and group dynamics. The project aims to develop a theory and computational model of "structure learning" - the psychological processes that allow people to learn about social relationships by observing patterns of interaction between individuals....
- This $598,703 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant aims to elucidate the computational and neural mechanisms underlying musical enculturation - how people spontaneously engage with and learn the musical structures of unfamiliar cultures. The research involves implementing a series of behavioral, neuroimaging, and neurophysiology...
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 exhibitions. Researchers will collect observational data from tens of thousands of anonymous visitors to analyze relationships between exhibition design and individual/group behaviors. Results will be used to develop predictive models of visitor experiences and test modifications to further refine those models. Outcomes aim to establish an empirical framework for exhibition design and its impacts, with the goal of enhancing museums' educational missions through evidence-based approaches. The three-year award period runs from August 2022 to July 2025.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $0 | 1/12/23 | ||
| Not listed | $0 | 1/3/23 | ||
| Not listed | $369.2k | 8/17/22 |