Project Grant 2605675
- 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 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...
- 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 $1,638,742 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (doing business as RFCUNY - City College) on July 1, 2026, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to investigate how the brain integrates semantic information across eye movements in humans and non-human primates. The project will record and analyze brain activity and eye movements from human and primate...
- The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded Rochester Institute of Technology $562,247 on August 15, 2026, for advancing NeuroAI through biologically-plausible self-supervised learning under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The project investigates the gap between artificial and natural intelligence by developing neuroscience-informed AI models that incorporate biological principles of brain function. The work focuses...
- The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded $2.225 million to the Allen Institute on September 1, 2026, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for a collaborative U.S.-Israel research project on decision-making neuroscience. The project builds computational theory connecting brain anatomy, multi-regional neural dynamics, and behavior during decision-making. The research develops recurrent neural network models that...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences awarded $244,999 to the Trustees of Boston University on September 1, 2026, for theoretical research on stochastic dynamics of cortical neural networks under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The research develops statistical field theoretical frameworks linking neural and synaptic biology to collective network dynamics, using tools from statistical field theory applied to soft-threshold neuron...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded The University of Chicago $409,638 on October 1, 2025, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to model traveling waves in the human cortex. The project measures rhythmic waves of neuronal activity directly from the human brain using surgically placed electrodes during clinical neurosurgical procedures, then develops computational models to test theories about how...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The University of Southern California received a $310,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), effective October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2028. This award supports research into the theoretical foundations of NeuroAI, a brain-inspired artificial intelligence approach motivated by biological neuronal network...
- The National Science Foundation Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded New York University $913,250 on July 1, 2026, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to investigate how humans reason about the physical world and to apply those findings to artificial intelligence systems. The project uses a custom physics simulator expressing varied physical laws—including scenarios where gravity or the relationship between force and motion differ from Earth's...
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 measure how human brains are alike and how they differ when processing visual, auditory, and language stimuli. Current comparison methods reduce neural similarity to a single score, obscuring which response patterns align, whether cortical topography is shared across individuals, whether processing stages align in similar order, and which stimuli produce shared or different neural codes. The research team validates measures comparing individual neuron response profiles and fMRI-derived brain locations, assessing how response patterns are arranged across cortex, how processing stages align, and which images, sounds, or sentences evoke similar versus different responses across people. The work also compares patterns in human brain activity with patterns in artificial neural networks to assess whether artificial intelligence systems process information in brain-like ways. The project produces software and benchmarks for use by other researchers and trains students at the intersection of neuroscience, mathematics, and artificial intelligence. Performance occurs at New York University in New York, New York, with a period of performance through July 31, 2031. The award is categorized as a Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075).
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $300.0k | 8/13/26 |