This $729,956 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) supports research at Northeastern University to address the "generalization problem" in neural models of fear. The goal is to reconcile apparently conflicting findings from animal and human neuroimaging studies on the brain regions and neural circuits underlying the subjective experience of fear. The research...
This $158,502 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083) supports the acquisition of an electroencephalogram (EEG) system at the University of South Carolina Aiken (USCA). The EEG system will advance multi-user interdisciplinary neuroscience research across USCA's psychology, biology, nursing, business, exercise science, and computer/engineering departments. Key planned research activities include examining neural...
This $401,918 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research by the University of Rochester to investigate neural mechanisms underlying how the brain processes complex sounds like speech and music across different timescales. The key objectives are to use computational models and neural recordings from auditory cortex to understand the brain's flexible integration of sound information over...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) provides $304,240 to Haverford College to conduct research on the relationship between early-life stress and emotional regulation. The project aims to examine how adverse childhood experiences impact a neural marker of emotional reactivity, the late positive potential (LPP), in young adults. The research involves three related studies testing the ability...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will provide $409,837 to Trustees of Dartmouth College to study the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying mental state detection, prediction, and regulation during social interactions. The research will use tightly controlled experiments and deep neural network models to investigate how people learn to understand others' thoughts, feelings, beliefs, desires, and...
This $370,687 federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, will support a multiscale modeling and analysis framework to study the brain and its disorders, with a focus on understanding neural mechanisms in autism. The project aims to develop an integrative modeling approach that links cellular-level mechanisms to whole-brain dynamics, using a combination of spiking neural networks and neural...
This $160,000 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support a postdoctoral fellowship investigating the neural basis of social influence perception. Under the sponsorship of Drs. Shari Liu, Marina Bedny, and Tianmin Shu at Johns Hopkins University, the fellowship supports an early-career scientist who will use behavioral and neuroimaging methods to examine how the brain processes information about physical...
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...
This Project Grant award, totaling $440,837, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant funds research investigating the neural and computational mechanisms underlying the evaluation of mental effort and how this process is impacted by environmental stressors. The research aims to better understand variability in achievement of educational, career, and health goals, particularly for individuals from...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (SPRF) Project Grant award of $160,000 supports an early career scientist examining how naming emotions impacts emotion regulation. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Erik Nook at Princeton University, the 2-year fellowship will leverage behavioral and psycholinguistic measures to investigate the contextual, social, and temporal factors that influence whether naming...