The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $149,999 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to conduct a series of experiments exploring the cognitive benefits of bilingualism across the lifespan. The research aims to identify patterns of language and cognitive change in aging populations, with a focus on understanding the reasons why bilingual adults tend to preserve better cognitive...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $320,000 in funding to Northeastern University for a 5-year research project on the neurocognitive development of adolescent learning. The project aims to investigate the cognitive and brain mechanisms related to learning from experience and how these change from childhood to adolescence and young adulthood. The research will use behavioral, computational, and...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to the University of Florida is for $242,310 and will run from May 2024 to January 2027. The research project aims to identify age-related changes in brain function across different cognitive domains and their impact on learning strategies and outcomes. Specifically, the study will examine how activity in the hippocampus and dorsal striatum networks, as well as the role of the anterior...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) program (CFDA 47.075) awarded a $529,508 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley to investigate the cognitive mechanisms that enable individuals to leverage the brain's motivation system for arbitrary goals. The 3-year research project, starting on June 1, 2024, aims to uncover how learning and decision-making differ when people pursue familiar, objective rewards versus novel, self-imposed...
This federal Project Grant award of $2,451,044 was provided by the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York. The project, titled "Engaging Aging Minds: Labor Force Participation, Stimulating Activities, and Cognitive Aging Across Diverse International Settings," aims to investigate the impact of labor force participation and stimulating activities in middle and later life on cognitive aging outcomes across...
This $126,956 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging's Aging Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.866) supports research to identify the mechanisms underlying the generation of new neurons in the aging adult brain. The University of California, San Diego (UCSD) will utilize single cell spatial transcriptomics and other techniques to define the pathways through which glial cells, such as radial glial-like and subependymal-like cells, can convert into functional replacement...
This Project Grant award for $778,024 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a 3-year longitudinal study to examine neurobiological and contextual factors that influence successful transition to adulthood among youth aged 17-19. The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will use functional MRI, behavioral measures, and questionnaires to investigate how neural function associated with reward sensitivity and...
This $183,411 federal Project Grant award was issued by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of California, Berkeley. The award, effective July 1, 2024 through February 28, 2026, seeks to determine the neural mechanisms by which memories guide human attention. The project will utilize functional MRI, studies of brain-lesioned patients, eye tracking, and behavioral measures to uncover how the hippocampus and...
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 Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $3,519,439 Project Grant under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866) to the University of Southern California (USC) on August 1, 2024. The grant will fund a study examining the long-term effects of educational investments, such as the National Defense Education Act of the 1950s-60s, on cognitive health and the development of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. USC will collaborate with sub-awardees Emory University, RAND Corporation,...