Project Grant 2605676
- 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 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 Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded Georgia TECH Research Corp $354,774 on August 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The award funds development of computational tools that connect natural animal behavior to brain activity, with the goal of understanding how the brain supports flexible decision-making in complex environments. The work will employ inverse reinforcement learning...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations awarded Georgia TECH Research Corp $149,746 on October 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to investigate the neural correlates of complexity in data visualizations. The research bridges human-computer interaction and neuroscience to establish a theory-driven, predictive framework for understanding how specific visualization design elements foster or hinder...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary Georgia TECH Research Corp received a $421,814 Project Grant award effective September 1, 2025, through August 31, 2028, from the National Science Foundation's Office of Multidisciplinary Activities under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site award supports the development and delivery of an undergraduate research training program focused on human neuroscience techniques and...
- The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded Emory University $731,909 on August 1, 2026, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to leverage machine learning and a primate model system for understanding cognitive variation across learning, memory, executive function, and cognitive flexibility domains. The project applies AI-enabled cognitive testing stations with face recognition and standardized touch-screen tasks in a...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $143,624 Project Grant to the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc. under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The award will support a collaborative research project between multidisciplinary investigators to leverage advances in neuroscience data and develop brain-inspired artificial intelligence. Specifically, the researchers will analyze...
- 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 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 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 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 responding to visual, auditory, and language stimuli. Rather than reducing neural similarity between two brains or between a brain and an artificial neural network to a single score, the research team creates interpretable measures that reveal which response patterns align, whether cortical topography is shared across people, whether processing stages match in order, and which stimuli evoke similar versus different neural codes. The team validates these measures against response profiles of individual neurons and brain locations measured with fMRI, and assesses how those patterns are spatially arranged across cortex. The work also compares human brain activity with patterns in artificial neural networks to test whether artificial intelligence systems process information in brain-like ways. Alongside research outputs, the project produces software and benchmarks for use by other researchers and trains students at the intersection of neuroscience, mathematics, and artificial intelligence. Work is performed in Atlanta, Georgia, with a period of performance from August 15, 2026, through July 31, 2031. The award is classified as a Project Grant.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $348.2k | 8/13/26 |