Project Grant FA95501810054

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), provides $475,715 to Vanderbilt University to advance understanding of how visual long-term memory guides visual attention and perception. The researchers will use electroencephalography to record brain activity from participants searching for objects in cluttered scenes. Analyses will reveal whether brain...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $519,793 will fund research into visual working memory representations at the University of California, San Diego from July 2022 to June 2025. The award is part of the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), which supports basic research in cognitive sciences. The research will test theories of how visual working memory holds probabilistic information about object features rather than single values. Using...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $399,042 to support research on audio-visual effects and spatial attention mechanisms in the human brain. The 3-year project, awarded to Dartmouth College, aims to investigate how the brain integrates sensory inputs from vision and audition, with a focus on understanding the role of spatial location in multisensory attention and perception. The...

This Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports research on the executive control of working memory and information prioritization. The $277,536 award to The University of Tampa Inc. will evaluate how people strategically manage and manipulate information held in working memory based on the assigned value or importance of that information. The project will systematically investigate the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (CFDA 47.075 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) provides $386,744 to Vanderbilt University to investigate the components, correlates, and mechanisms of object recognition and visual decision-making abilities. The project aims to understand how and why individuals vary in their ability to make visual decisions, analyzing the performance of large participant groups across...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $1,646,782 in funding to Trustees of Boston University over 5 years to develop a brain-inspired algorithm for complex scene analysis. The key products and services being delivered include: The research integrates three interdisciplinary threads to develop this algorithm: Using brain imaging and machine learning to decode...

The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded $670,000 under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to Vanderbilt University for the period of August 1, 2022 through July 31, 2025. The award will support research examining the theoretical connections between attention and memory through the development of new experimental procedures and computational models. Specifically, the grantee will adapt the Eriksen flanker...

This $343,324 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Northeastern University to develop empirically validated perceptual tasks for data visualization. The goal is to refine and evaluate a model of the lower-level perceptual processes underlying higher-level data analysis and visualization tasks. Researchers will conduct qualitative studies to document how people decompose tasks and then empirically evaluate proposed perceptual subtasks like filtering images, judging...

The federal Project Grant award R01EY035249, totaling $605,903.00, was provided by the National Eye Institute (NEI) under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867) to the University of California, Davis. The overarching goal of this 5-year project is to determine the role of the medial temporal lobe in visual perception and working memory. The research will employ a combination of psychophysical methods, eye tracking, studies of patients with focal brain lesions, and high-resolution brain...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (NEI) under CFDA Program 93.867 (Vision Research) provides $146,816 to Yale University to conduct research on how the hippocampus, a brain region typically associated with memory, supports visual perception and attention. The research aims to test the hypothesis that hippocampal differentiation - a process where related visual stimuli are represented less similarly than unrelated stimuli - can bias visual perception and behavior...