Project Grant 2638535
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $659,877 project grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) for the period of July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2026. The grant funds research aimed at studying how salient visual distractions impact ongoing task performance and how humans mitigate distractions to remain productive. Researchers will use a novel forced-response method involving eye-tracking...
- This Project Grant award of $910,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences supports research on the "Mechanisms of Willed Attention" at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis). This research, under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), aims to investigate the brain mechanisms that enable humans to voluntarily direct their attention, especially in the absence of external cues. Using...
- The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded The Ohio State University $615,666 on June 1, 2026, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to investigate the consequences of attentional disruptions for perception, memory, and decision-making. The research combines behavioral experiments, neuromodulation, and computational analyses to examine how dynamic decisions about spatial attention and distraction affect ongoing...
- The National Science Foundation SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities awarded the University of Missouri System $521,472 on August 1, 2026, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to conduct cognitive research on learned attentional control and signal suppression. The recipient will conduct laboratory experiments using eye-tracking and neural measures to understand how the brain inhibits salient distractors and learns to suppress irrelevant signals during...
- This $223,136 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the causes and consequences of early quitting in visual search tasks. Funded under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the two-year award to Connecticut College will investigate how distracting objects can alter decision-making processes and cause individuals to terminate searches earlier than they otherwise would. Researchers will use various experimental protocols and...
- This two-year, $158,962 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Old Dominion University to understand declines in sustained attention over time. Funded through the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the research will combine behavioral experiments with statistical modeling. Experiments in a driving simulator and other tasks will examine how automated controls, mental rest, task difficulty and dual-task loads affect vigilance. Researchers...
- This $382,535 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Yale University to develop understanding of attention in preschool-aged children. The Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences award falls under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which promotes basic research and education in these fields. Specifically, the two-year project will investigate the emergence of selective and sustained attention to socially relevant audiovisual...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded $228,950 to Trustees of Dartmouth College on September 1, 2026, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to support research on attentional control of credit assignment in learning through September 1, 2031. The project develops and tests computational models of how humans adaptively control credit assignment strategies during learning, with the central hypothesis...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences provides $215,347 to Oregon State University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The funding supports research from April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2025 to understand why vigilance declines over time through behavioral experiments and statistical modeling. The research will examine the types of errors people make during sustained attention...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will provide $183,411 to The Regents of the University of California, doing business as the University of California, Berkeley, to conduct research on how memory contributes to goal-directed attention from July 1, 2024 to February 28, 2026. The project aims to determine the neural mechanisms by which memories guide attention, focusing on the role of the hippocampus. It...
The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded $631,649 to the University of California, Davis on July 1, 2026, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) to fund research on human attention disengagement from visual distractions. The research evaluates competing theories of how humans successfully disengage attention from irrelevant visual distractions—such as billboards while driving—and redirect focus to task-relevant information. The investigator combines a large-scale electroencephalography dataset with targeted manipulations of visual displays to test two competing explanations: one positing that distractions impair behavior through multiple attention shifts, the other that they impair behavior through working memory overload. Behavioral and neural measures will be used to distinguish between these mechanisms. The work aims to inform development of computer vision, augmented reality, and adaptive human-AI teaming applications designed to improve performance in high-stakes situations such as threat detection in Transportation Security Administration scanning or satellite image analysis. Performance occurs in Davis, California, with a period of performance extending from July 1, 2026 through December 31, 2030. The assistance type is a Project Grant.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $631.6k | 8/6/26 |