Project Grant 2515190
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $160,551 to Gallaudet University to strengthen the pipeline for deaf scientists in signed language research. The project aims to increase the participation of deaf and hard-of-hearing students in the field of signed language research through a mentorship and access model. Key activities include: Providing a cohort of deaf college and university...
- This Cooperative Agreement award of $718,052 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the 21st Century Cures Act - Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, CFDA 93.372, aims to study the interplay between language and cognition. The project will leverage high-density laminar array recordings in the operating room, single-cell genomic/spatial transcriptomic analyses, laminar fMRI, and computational modeling to...
- This $234,610 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports collaborative research at Colgate University to study how the brain uses visual and linguistic information to achieve specific goals. The research aims to advance theories of human cognition and develop more adaptive, human-aligned artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Key project activities include training deep neural networks to predict...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $225,482 to the University of Florida to study predictive processing in naturalistic language comprehension through EEG and computational modeling. The project aims to understand how different language backgrounds affect predictions made during language processing, with a focus on proficient second-language comprehension. The researchers will collect EEG data...
- The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research titled "BUILDING A COMPREHENSIVE THEORY OF PRAGMATIC LANGUAGE THROUGH LARGE-SCALE EXPERIMENTS, COMPUTATION, AND NEURODIVERSITY" from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2023. The grant supports research under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which aims to promote basic research and education in social, behavioral and...
- This $149,804 Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support research to understand how language experience shapes language development. The research will combine functional neuroimaging (fMRI) of brain responses to language in children, adolescents, and adults with computational modeling using large language models (LLMs)...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences supports research at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying speech production. The project aims to generate a functional map of the brain systems that enable fluent speech, with the goal of improving diagnosis and treatment of speech production deficits. The $965,471 award, effective August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2026,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $250,000 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to New York University (NYU) for the "Neural Bases of Bilingual Language Production" project. The project aims to study how the brain processes and produces language in bilingual individuals, particularly examining how the brain uses different grammatical rules when speaking multiple languages. The research will involve measuring brain...
- This $449,275 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to advance the scientific understanding of human language processing and change. The project, led by the University of California, Davis (UC Davis), combines expertise from linguistics, psychology, and computational approaches to investigate how language users integrate general language constraints and verb-specific preferences...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $224,769 to the University of North Texas (UNT) to develop artificial neural network models that can reconstruct proto-languages and earlier forms of modern languages. The project aims to leverage recent advancements in AI and machine learning to address limitations of current comparative reconstruction methods, which are used to study language...
CONFERENCE: ADVANCING RESEARCH ON THE NEUROBIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE -THIS PROJECT SUPPORTS A CONFERENCE THAT ADVANCES A SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING OF HOW THE BRAIN PROCESSES LANGUAGE, KNOWLEDGE THAT IS CRITICAL FOR DEVELOPING BRAIN-INSPIRED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) TECHNOLOGIES. THE CONFERENCE SERVES AS A MODEL FOR INCLUSIVE PRACTICES, MAKING PARTICIPATION POSSIBLE FOR ALL INTERESTED ATTENDEES. THE PROJECT'S GOAL IS TO ENSURE THAT A MAJOR CONFERENCE IN THE LANGUAGE AND BRAIN SCIENCES IS ACCESSIBLE TO ALL AMERICANS. THESE PRACTICES ARE DESIGNED TO MAKE THE CONFERENCE MORE ACCESSIBLE TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF THE CONFERENCE EXPERIENCE FOR EVERYONE. IN DOING SO, MORE PEOPLE CONTRIBUTE TO RESEARCH THAT SUPPORTS BRAIN-INSPIRED AI AND OTHER IMPORTANT TECHNOLOGIES. OTHER BENEFITS TO SOCIETY INCLUDE CREATING AND SHARING RESOURCES TO HELP FUTURE CONFERENCES ADOPT SIMILAR STANDARDS TO SUPPORT INVOLVEMENT FROM ALL AMERICANS IN RESEARCH COMMUNITIES. THE PROJECT CENTERS ON A SCIENTIFIC MEETING THAT EXPLORES THE NEURAL AND COGNITIVE FOUNDATIONS OF LANGUAGE, DRAWING PARTICIPANTS FROM A WIDE RANGE OF DISCIPLINES SUCH AS LINGUISTICS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND NEUROLOGY. THE CONFERENCE FEATURES EMPIRICAL RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS, THEORETICAL DISCUSSIONS, AND METHODOLOGICAL ADVANCES IN THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE AND THE BRAIN. THIS AWARD SUPPORTS INFRASTRUCTURE REQUIRED TO MAKE THE MEETING ACCESSIBLE TO ALL AMERICANS, INCLUDING PROFESSIONAL INTERPRETING AND CAPTIONING SERVICES, ACCESSIBLE PHYSICAL SPACES, AND MENTORING FOR ATTENDEES. POST-CONFERENCE SURVEYS AND PLANNING DOCUMENTATION INFORM BEST PRACTICES FOR ORGANIZING SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS. THESE OUTCOMES ARE WIDELY DISSEMINATED AND ARCHIVED TO PROMOTE LONG-TERM IMPROVEMENTS IN MAKING LANGUAGE AND COGNITIVE SCIENCE STUDIES AVAILABLE TO ALL. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $79.6k | 8/14/25 |