Project Grant 2337373

This $466,640 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research by The Trustees of Princeton University to measure and understand how the parietal lobe and cerebellum in the developing brain represent and process visual information to support the visual attention skills needed for tasks like reading. The 5-year project aims to use functional MRI to track how the receptive fields and coordinated activity of these brain regions mature from childhood to adulthood, with the goal of better understanding the neural underpinnings of visuospatial attention in typical development as well as conditions like dyslexia and attention-deficit disorders. The project includes educational outreach and the development of game-based experiments to engage children and provide resources for clinicians and educators to study visual attention. No subawards are planned under this award.