The National Eye Institute (NEI) has awarded a five-year, $473,509 Project Grant (CFDA 93.867 - Vision Research) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to investigate the role of pupillary responses in working memory and their impact on adaptive visual perception. The proposed research combines physiological measurements (fMRI, eye-tracking) with transcranial stimulation to test whether pupillary signals related to working memory convey behavioral relevance, configure to predictive...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $519,793 will fund research into visual working memory representations at the University of California, San Diego from July 2022 to June 2025. The award is part of the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research in cognitive sciences.
The research will test theories of how visual working memory holds probabilistic information about object features rather than single values. Using...
This $577,409 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund research at American University to study infant visual object recognition and its implications for computational models of human vision. Over a three-year period from September 2022 to August 2025, researchers will use electroencephalography to analyze how 12-15 month old infants represent and process visual objects. Results will be compared to predictions from...
This Project Grant award of $910,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences supports research on the "Mechanisms of Willed Attention" at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis). This research, under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), aims to investigate the brain mechanisms that enable humans to voluntarily direct their attention, especially in the absence of external cues. Using...
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...
This $466,640 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) to The Trustees of Princeton University aims to measure how visual attention and spatial processing in the parietal lobe and cerebellum develop from childhood to adulthood. The research will use functional MRI to map receptive field changes in these brain regions as participants perform visuospatial attention tasks, including game-based experiments...
This $649,812 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research examining how the brain processes language and meaning through different sensory modalities. The primary awardee, New York University (NYU), will use magnetoencephalography (MEG) to investigate the neural dynamics of syntactic and semantic computations when language input lacks temporal sequencing, such as flashed written sentences. NYU...
This Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (NEI), under the Vision Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.867), provides $124,205 to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to investigate the neural basis of mental simulations and how the brain forms an internal model of the world from sensory information.
The key objectives of this 2-year award, which runs from March 1, 2025 to February 28, 2027, are to study the coordinated neural activity between...
This $580,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems will fund research to develop more biologically realistic computational models of the primate visual system. Awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the grant supports work at the University of California, San Diego from September 15, 2022 to August 31, 2025.
The research aims to incorporate key features of human vision missing from...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $183,411 to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, to investigate how memory guides attention and visual exploration. The project seeks to determine the neural mechanisms by which memories stored in the hippocampus allow individuals to use past experiences to anticipate and attend to...