This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Program grant, awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, provides $320,000 in funding to Northeastern University to investigate the neurocognitive development of adolescent learning. The project aims to understand the cognitive and brain mechanisms related to learning from experience and how these change from childhood through adolescence and young adulthood. Using behavioral, computational, and neuroimaging...
This $300,000 five-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to develop new analytical tools and models to understand how the brain processes and routes sensory information. The project aims to integrate existing datasets of large-scale neural activity and anatomical connectivity to provide a mechanistic understanding of communications between brain regions. The research...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering, under the CFDA program "Office of International Science and Engineering", provides $100,000 to develop a new computational framework for statistical inference of neuromodulation across species and spatial scales from large neural datasets. Vanderbilt University will analyze neural circuitry underlying changes in motivation, mood and alertness using a three-step approach. First,...
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...
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...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports research on the neural and computational mechanisms of flexible goal-directed decision-making. The $411,707 award will enable a collaborative study between researchers in the U.S. and Germany to investigate how people flexibly adjust their information search and actions to achieve different goals and task demands. The project will combine...
This $250,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) supports research by the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) to investigate the role of neuromodulators in regulating the activity and plasticity of neuronal networks. The research aims to elucidate the mechanisms by which neuromodulators constrain the parameter space of neuronal activity, both in response to perturbations and over long time scales. The project utilizes the...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) project grant award of $360,000 aims to uncover the intricate ways neurons communicate and how this communication influences brain development and maturation. The 5-year project, starting April 1, 2025, will utilize the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans to study the role of neuron-neuron communication, particularly through neurotransmitter-based and neuropeptidergic chemical neurotransmission, in the post-mitotic...
This $440,837 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research investigating the neural and computational mechanisms underlying the evaluation of mental effort and its impact on cognitive control and goal achievement. The research aims to develop a model of how people weigh the costs and benefits of exerting mental effort, and how this process is altered by stress. The project will use brain...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research titled "The Social Brain: Behavioral, Neural, and Transcriptomic Modulation of the Brain" from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. This funding was provided under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) to promote progress in the biological sciences and increase understanding of major issues facing the nation. Over the two year period of performance in Columbia, Missouri, this award will allow the...