Project Grant 2605674
- The National Science Foundation's Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded New York University $300,000 on August 15, 2026, for a collaborative research project developing optimal transport methods to compare neural representations across brains and artificial neural networks. The award supports research in the Collaborative Research: CRCNS (Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience) program. The project develops mathematical techniques based on optimal transport theory to...
- The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded $348,196 to Georgia TECH Research Corp on August 15, 2026, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for Collaborative Research: CRCNS Research Proposal on optimal transport methods for comparative analysis of neural representations. The project develops mathematical techniques based on optimal transport to measure how individual brains are alike and how they differ when...
- The National Science Foundation's Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded the University of California Santa Cruz $918,934 on August 1, 2026, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program to investigate how the human brain integrates information across sensory modalities, temporal scales, and prior knowledge while weighting the reliability of distinct informational inputs. The research evaluates a computational framework centered on subjective-reliability weighting, a...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded the University of California, San Diego $799,991 on September 1, 2026, to build a unified, U.S.-based infrastructure for human electroencephalography (EEG) data. The project runs through August 31, 2031, and is supported under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The project consolidates fragmented international EEG datasets collected across cognitive science experiments into a...
- The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded The Leland Stanford Junior University $795,439 on July 1, 2026, to elucidate functional and microstructural development of the human visual system across the lifespan under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The research uses functional magnetic resonance imaging and quantitative MRI to measure how brain activity and brain tissue properties change together in the ventral visual...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded $249,999 to the University of California, San Diego on August 1, 2026, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to support research on the structure of the Jacobian in neural network training, with an award completion date of July 31, 2029. The project develops mathematical and computational frameworks for understanding neural network training without reliance on backpropagation, drawing on...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded New York University $599,994 on September 1, 2026, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to investigate how human brains achieve cognitive efficiency and learn to think through multiple modes including planning, memory retrieval, and reasoning. The project, which runs through August 31, 2031, tests the theory that diverse human deliberation strategies emerge from a general principle...
- The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded the University of New Hampshire $511,753 on July 15, 2026, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to investigate how the brain learns structured categories from multisensory stimuli. The research compares category learning outcomes when subjects encounter auditory, visual, and combined stimuli that are redundant, conflicting, or ambiguous. The work tests two competing theoretical...
- The National Science Foundation's Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded the University of Southern California $741,148 on July 1, 2026, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to investigate how the human brain judges whether surprising outcomes reflect genuine changes in the world or random noise—a cognitive process the research terms uncertainty source inference. The five-year project, running through June 30, 2031, examines the computational and...
- This $299,889 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program supports research at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to develop algorithms for compressing and improving the efficiency of large neural networks used in modern artificial intelligence applications. The key products and services to be delivered include: The research project focuses on developing quantization, pruning, and low-rank...
The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded the University of California, San Diego $517,134 on August 15, 2026, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to develop mathematical methods for comparing neural representations across individuals and between human brains and artificial neural networks. The project develops optimal-transport-based techniques to measure how brains are alike and differ when responding to stimuli in vision, hearing, and language. Current comparison methods reduce the similarity between two brains or between a brain and an artificial model to a single score, obscuring which response patterns align, whether cortical topography is shared across people, whether processing stages align in similar order, and which stimuli produce shared or different neural codes. The research team develops and validates measures that compare response profiles of individual neurons and small brain locations measured with functional MRI, assess how response patterns are arranged across cortex, evaluate processing-stage alignment, and identify which images, sounds, or sentences evoke similar versus different responses across people. The work builds understanding of healthy brain organization, enables detection of subtle changes related to brain and mental health conditions, and tests whether artificial intelligence systems process information in brain-like ways. The project trains students at the intersection of neuroscience, mathematics, and artificial intelligence and releases software and benchmarks for use by other researchers. Performance occurs at UC San Diego's La Jolla, California campus. The award period extends from August 15, 2026, through July 31, 2031.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $517.1k | 8/13/26 |