Project Grant 2523956
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will leverage smart objects and AI to study how parent-child conversations influence the development of spatial thinking skills in young children. The $335,000 project, awarded to Northwestern University, uses sensor-enabled building blocks and advanced language models to analyze the physical construction patterns and speech interactions between parents and children...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) Project Grant award of $160,000 supports an early career postdoctoral research fellowship examining how children acquire vocabulary related to spatial relations. The research, conducted under the sponsorship of Dr. John Trueswell at the University of Pennsylvania and Dr. Barbara Landau at Johns Hopkins University, will investigate how typically developing children learn the meanings of spatial terms...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $370,236 to the University of South Florida to use sensing technology and automated speech recognition to capture teacher-child language interactions in diverse pre-K classrooms. The project aims to examine how often preschool teachers engage in language interactions with students, whether certain children receive fewer or briefer interactions,...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program totaling $146,005 will support research to examine how family stress and cohesion relate to a young child's language environment and language acquisition. The project consists of two studies - a secondary analysis of existing data from 100 families and an intensive longitudinal study with home observations of 50 multigenerational families. The research aims to...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $169,965 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) for a 3-year collaborative research project. The project aims to use innovative sensing technology and automated speech recognition to capture and analyze teacher language interactions with preschool children in diverse classroom settings. The goal is to gain insights into how teacher-child language experiences...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $100,055 to Trustees of Indiana University (doing business as Indiana University) to investigate the impact of parent-child interactions on spatial skills and STEM motivation among 1st and 2nd grade students. The research aims to 1) identify specific aspects of parent-child interactions that predict children's spatial skills and STEM learning/motivation, 2) establish causal relationships...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $337,206 Project Grant titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: THE DEVELOPMENTAL COURSE OF CEREBRAL LATERALIZATION FOR SPACE AND LANGUAGE" to Georgetown University. This 4-year grant, which began on Aug 1, 2023, supports research to investigate how the brain's hemispheric specialization for language and visual-spatial abilities develops in children ages 5-11. Using behavioral testing and functional...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $109,799 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to the University of Florida Division of Sponsored Research. The grant supports a collaborative research project to use sensing technology and automated speech recognition to capture teacher language interactions in diverse pre-K classrooms. The project aims to provide insights into how preschool language experiences shape children's language...
- This federal Project Grant award of $425,748, provided by the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports two related studies to advance the understanding of early language development in infants. The first study involves observing parent-infant interactions, with infants wearing eye-tracking devices to determine when speech is interpretable to them. The second study creates and...
- The U.S. National Science Foundation awarded a $462,693 Project Grant under its Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to Georgetown University. The purpose of this 3-year grant, running from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2028, is to understand how children and adults learn language and visual patterns, with a specific focus on the process of "consolidation" in memory. The research aims to examine whether language learning and visual pattern learning exhibit similar...
This federal Project Grant award of $365,000.00, made by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports collaborative research by Michigan State University to understand the role of language in the development of spatial thinking skills in young children. The project leverages smart building blocks, sensors, and artificial intelligence tools to study how parent-child conversations influence children's spatial learning during construction play. The research aims to identify language features that best support spatial skill development, as well as how children's spatial actions shape parental language. Through machine learning and real-time data collection, the project seeks to advance methods for capturing the dynamics of children's learning during play and inform the design of educational technologies and interventions to support STEM-related spatial skills. This award reflects NSF's mission to advance fundamental scientific knowledge and enable innovative solutions with broader societal impact.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $365.0k | 8/21/25 |