This Project Grant award of $576,474.00 from the National Eye Institute (NEI), under the Federal Grant Program "Vision Research" (CFDA 93.867), supports research conducted by President and Fellows of Harvard College, doing business as Harvard Medical School, to elucidate the relationship between visual feature representations and spatial encoding in the primate temporal lobe. The project aims to use innovative technologies, including chronic multielectrode recordings and deep neural...
This $3.63 million Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health Office of the Director, under the Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310), will fund research at Duke University from August 2022 through July 2025 to develop predictive dynamic models of the functional connectivity underlying visually guided behavior in zebrafish. Using integrated optical imaging, optogenetic manipulation, and recurrent neural network techniques, the...
This Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke will fund the development of advanced tools for genetically targeted all-optical electrophysiology in behaving mice. Specifically, the $4,381,836 award to President and Fellows of Harvard College, doing business as Harvard University, will support efforts to co-develop two-photon excitable genetically encoded voltage indicators and a new type of two-photon voltage-imaging...
This $1,999,635 project grant from the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH NINDS) will fund research into understanding feedforward and feedback signaling between neuronal populations. The grant was awarded to Albert Einstein College of Medicine on March 15, 2022 for a period ending February 28, 2025. The project aims to advance understanding of how feedforward and feedback signaling work together in the visual system by analyzing...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program awards $602,466 to President and Fellows of Harvard College to develop new theoretical frameworks and mathematical models that elucidate how neural networks in the brain learn. The 5-year project, starting on October 1, 2023, aims to advance the understanding of brain function and integrate the research findings into educational and outreach efforts. Key focus areas...
The National Eye Institute (NEI) awarded a $409,375 five-year Project Grant (CFDA 93.867 - Vision Research) to The Johns Hopkins University to decipher and apply brain algorithms for 3D object perception. The project aims to use artificial vision networks to replicate the 3D shape tuning functions of individual neurons in the visual cortex of macaque monkeys, with the goal of developing artificial networks that can achieve human-level 3D visual performance. Key components include training...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) provides $1,389,728 to The Trustees of Princeton University to conduct research on the evolutionary development of the primate neocortex. The project aims to apply molecular tools and genomic analyses to the common marmoset, an emerging primate model, in order to reconstruct the lineage relationships, progenitor population demographics, and connectivity patterns across...
The National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a three-year, $1,000,000 Project Grant to the President and Fellows of Harvard College to support research titled "NCS-FO: EMPOWERING DATA-DRIVEN HYPOTHESIS GENERATION FOR SCALABLE CONNECTOMICS ANALYSIS." The grant falls under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which aims to advance computing, communications, and information science through...
The National Eye Institute (NEI) has awarded a $264,226 Project Grant under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867) to the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The funding will support a two-week advanced research training course in visual neuroscience at MBL. The course aims to train students in fundamental concepts of visual neuroscience and modern research methods, including large-scale analysis of the visual system connectome, multielectrode neural recording,...
This Project Grant award of $232,500 from the National Eye Institute (NEI) Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867) supports research on manipulating 3D object perception through patterned micro-stimulation of the visual cortex. The goal is to test whether stimulating specific V4 neuron clusters tuned to 3D geometric shape fragments can generate corresponding 3D shape percepts, as a potential strategy for restoring 3D vision in prosthetic applications. The research combines neurophysiological...
This $3,051,000 Trans-NIH Research Support Project Grant from the Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health Office of the Director will fund research at Harvard Medical School from September 30, 2022 to July 31, 2025 to advance understanding of natural vision in the primate brain using machine learning techniques. Specifically, the researchers will test experimental designs to best predict responses of neurons in the inferotemporal cortex to natural images, including the use of generative adversarial networks to synthesize highly activating images. They will also evaluate methods for predicting population response patterns across cortical visual sites. The project includes workshops to develop standard terminology for explanatory theories of visual function and code repositories to encourage implementation of approaches. Outcomes will provide a framework for understanding how occipitotemporal neurons represent naturalistic images and how their capabilities inform recognition-based behaviors.