The National Science Foundation awarded a $281,367 Project Grant to the Rochester Institute of Technology under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The three-year award will fund research into visual perception of three-dimensional object shape from patterns of image shading and contours. The researchers will study how the human visual system processes and interprets information about an object's 3D properties. They will incorporate optical effects typically...
The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University a $373,588 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to support research titled "Excellence in Research: Predicting Computations that Lead to a Stable Perception of Object Lightness under Spectral Variabilities of the Visual Scene." The three-year award beginning August 1, 2021 will fund...
This NSF-BSF project grant award of $233,958 to Brown University will support research to investigate the interdependence between perception, cognition, and action. The project aims to understand how specific actions can influence visual perception, and which aspects of visual processing are improved when preparing to act. It will use a combination of behavioral, psychophysical, physiological, and computational approaches. The research team will also engage in outreach activities to promote...
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...
The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a three-year, $649,791 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Emerging Frontiers under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research on computations for spatial-chromatic interactions and their physiological implementation in primary visual cortex. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and informatics research....
This $283,832 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to better understand human visual perception and its potential applications in AI systems. The project, titled "COMPCOG: Generating Object Percepts in Peripheral Vision During Naturalistic Attention Tasks," aims to investigate how AI models can generate plausible visual scenes in real-time using limited input data, similar to...
This three-year, $287,219 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at The Ohio State University to advance understanding of human visual perception of three-dimensional object shape from patterns of image shading and contours. Led by researchers in the university's Office of Sponsored Programs, the project aims to study how the human visual system processes and interprets information about the three-dimensional properties of objects. It will incorporate optical effects such as...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $341,347 to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to conduct research on the attentional guidance and decision-making processes involved in visual search tasks. The research aims to understand the organizing principles that make visual search efficient, using a combination of behavioral, eye-tracking, virtual reality, brain activity, and...
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 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...