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...
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 $325,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research at the University of Chicago to investigate the role of different memory systems in guiding decision-making for novel choices. The research team plans to leverage eye-tracking, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), computational modeling, and patient populations to characterize how "rigid" and "flexible"...
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...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $1,241,250.00 to the Research Foundation For Mental Hygiene, Inc. (RFMH) to conduct collaborative research on understanding the brain mechanisms involved in decision-making and categorization. The research aims to investigate how brain rhythms or "waves" in the prefrontal cortex synchronize neuronal activity to transmit...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $341,347 to the University of California, Davis to fund research on attentional guidance and decision-making during visual search tasks. The project will use behavioral experiments, eye-tracking, virtual reality, brain activity measurements, and computational modeling to investigate the underlying processes that enable efficient visual search. Key...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $163,588 to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) for a research project titled "Collaborative Research: Situational Learning and Decision Making". The project aims to characterize how individuals learn about situations and examine the role of situational and trait learning in moral reasoning and decision-making. The research team will leverage...
This $192,632 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate (CFDA 47.075) supports interdisciplinary research at Purdue University exploring how to improve decision-making processes. The project aims to develop a novel theory and operational framework for understanding how individuals and organizations weigh information sources and aggregate disparate data to reach conclusions, with applications in areas like user interface...
This $272,750 federal Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports research conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) focused on understanding human decision-making, social interactions, and behavioral patterns. The research explores areas such as the implications of limited memory on economic behavior, the dynamics of sharing information on social media, and the influence of...
This $722,109 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports collaborative research by Brown University to investigate the role of brain waves in prefrontal cortex during decision-making and categorization tasks. The project aims to leverage computational modeling and electrophysiological experiments in humans and animals to better understand the underlying brain mechanisms involved in...