This $411,707 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a collaborative research effort to study the neural and computational mechanisms underlying flexible, goal-directed decision making. The project aims to uncover the hidden drivers and potential failure modes of adaptive human decision-making, with the goal of better aligning real-world choices with long-term goals. The research combines...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $440,837 to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, for a research project titled "CAREER: The Vital Role of Motivation in Cognition." The project investigates the neural and computational mechanisms underlying how people make decisions about exerting mental effort, and how these...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $187,180 project grant to the Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024. The grant supports collaborative research examining the relative roles of ecology, evolution, and experience in solving novel problems under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program contributes to scientific strength and welfare through promotion...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $625,000 will fund research into the brain network mechanisms underlying task-general cognition and intelligent human behavior from September 2022 to August 2025. Under the federal Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), Rutgers University, Newark will investigate how dynamic activity flows within cognitive control networks implement intelligent goal-directed behavior across diverse tasks. Researchers will utilize brain...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) to understand how the brain supports decision-making processes. The three-year grant, awarded under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), aims to identify neural features that provide information about the decision-making process, build decoders to predict decisions, and develop a closed-loop...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded Carnegie Mellon University a $2,155,795 project grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant will support collaborative research on volitional control of internal cognitive states from September 2021 through August 2026. As part of its mission to promote basic research in the social, behavioral and economic sciences, the funding will enable CMU researchers to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant, awarded to Trustees of Dartmouth College on May 1, 2025, provides $409,837 to study the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying how people understand others' mental states, specifically their ability to detect, predict, and regulate mental states during everyday social interactions. The project uses tightly controlled experiments and deep neural network models to characterize the...
This $341,347 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support research on the cognitive processes involved in visual search tasks. The project aims to understand how the human brain guides attention and makes decisions during visual search, which impacts daily activities like finding misplaced items or navigating crowded environments. The research will leverage a variety of methods including...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $752,727 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, doing business as the Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania. The grant, titled "CAREER: A Neurocomputational Approach to Contextually Flexible Human Social Behavior", aims to generate new scientific understanding of flexible human social decision-making and its underlying neural...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) provides $320,000.00 to Northeastern University to investigate the neurocognitive development of learning from experience during adolescence. The research project aims to understand the cognitive and brain mechanisms related to learning from experience and how they change from childhood to adolescence and young adulthood. The project will use behavioral,...