Project Grant 2302608
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $444,630 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan to investigate how signers and gesturers communicate about everyday activities and events. The project, funded through the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will examine communication in sign language by deaf signers, communication in gesture by hearing speakers, and communication in sign language by...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $550,299 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to Trustees of Indiana University, doing business as Indiana University, to conduct research on the transfer of statistical learning from speech perception to production. The project aims to understand the mechanisms by which the brain coordinates listening and speaking, even when changes are subtle and not consciously identifiable. Preliminary data...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $147,672 Project Grant to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, doing business as Virginia Tech, to conduct collaborative research on "Every Participant Counts: Investigating the Impact of Experimental Language Research on Participants." The project aims to explore how researchers can bring their roles of conducting experimental studies and engaging the public closer together,...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences supports research at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying speech production. The project aims to generate a functional map of the brain systems that enable fluent speech, with the goal of improving diagnosis and treatment of speech production deficits. The $965,471 award, effective August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2026,...
- This $239,973 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support the development of a new artificial intelligence-based tool to improve collaborative learning experiences and outcomes for deaf students in university-level science courses. The project aims to address challenges around the lack of standard American Sign Language (ASL) terminology for many scientific concepts, which can hinder deaf...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) provides $463,227 to Stony Brook University's Research Foundation to develop an efficient, skin-friendly, and unobtrusive silent speech interface system. The key products to be delivered include: Unobtrusive electromyogram sensing electrodes to track speech-relevant muscle activities. Machine learning algorithms based on deep Gaussian process networks to decode the sensing signals for speech...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $887,831 Project Grant under its STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2023, will fund a collaborative research effort to study the neurological factors underlying individual variability in auditory learning and second-language acquisition. The research will integrate attention monitoring via pupil dilation and neuromodulation through vagus nerve stimulation to...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $265,830 project grant to Michigan State University on August 1, 2021 with a completion date of January 31, 2025. The grant falls under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research and education in these fields as well as monitoring science resources. Under this award, Michigan State University will build infrastructure for collecting longitudinal speech...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $123,618 to the University of Maryland, College Park to conduct research investigating the impact of experimental language research on participants. The project aims to explore how experimental linguistics studies can be leveraged for public engagement, by examining participants' perceptions of language and linguistics and testing whether improved science...
- 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...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $431,380 Project Grant to Michigan State University to study the neurocognitive and behavioral aspects of nonverbal communication between public speakers and their audiences, with a focus on science communication. The project aims to use virtual reality (VR) technology to experimentally manipulate and analyze how speaker-audience attunement affects the reception and effectiveness of science presentations. Key goals include quantifying how speakers' nonverbal behaviors impact audience responses, and understanding how audience behavior affects speakers' physiological processes and communication outcomes. The research is expected to yield new insights into the role of nonverbal factors in enabling effective learning during public speaking, and could lead to innovative approaches to improve public speaking skills. This project aligns with NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), which supports initiatives to enhance STEM education capabilities nationwide.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $431.4k | 9/7/23 |