Project Grant FA95501910294

This three-year, $4.93 million project grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse will fund research into odor trail tracking behavior in mice. The grant supports three principal investigators at Harvard University who will study the algorithms and neural circuits underlying active sensation and continuous decision-making during this olfactory navigation behavior. The researchers will use behavioral, physiological, molecular and computational methods across three aims. In Aim 1, they will...

This $124,632 project grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke will support the development of a testable biologically constrained model for path integration in fruit flies. Funded under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders program, the awardee will use agent-based modeling, pattern recognition algorithms on flies' search trajectories, and genetic manipulation to test the roles of specific cells in the central complex of...

This four-year, $800,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Baylor College of Medicine to elucidate the role of on and off visual pathways in object segmentation for escape behavior in grasshoppers and locusts. The research aims to better understand how the nervous system generates precise responses to visual stimuli associated with approaching objects to enable evasive actions. The grantee will gather experimental data and model the neural pathways responsible for...

This $424,997 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports collaborative research by the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to develop a computational model of spatial navigation and representation using neural data obtained from animals navigating in large, complex environments. The goal is to understand how the interactions between the hippocampus and entorhinal cortex, which...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program will support research into the neuroscientific mechanisms of visual perception and cognition. The primary awardee, The Leland Stanford Junior University, will use an innovative "inception loop" technique combining multi-neuronal recordings and deep learning models to systematically characterize the neural tuning and receptive field...

This $169,515.00 Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health's Trans-NIH Research Support program (CFDA 93.310) aims to develop innovative technologies to study the neural dynamics of free behavior in mice. The key products and services include: Implementing systems for 3D tracking of mouse body posture, wireless multi-area neural recording, and wireless optogenetics to study sensorimotor integration and whole-body coordination in complex 3D environments. The research team, led by...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (NEI), under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867), provides $589,212 to the University of California, Santa Cruz to investigate the developmental mechanisms underlying the integration of visual and auditory spatial information, and how this process impacts natural spatial orienting behaviors. The key objectives are to determine the critical period for multisensory integration (MSI) development, quantify how changes in...

This $580,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems will fund research to develop more biologically realistic computational models of the primate visual system. Awarded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the grant supports work at the University of California, San Diego from September 15, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The research aims to incorporate key features of human vision missing from...

This $329,099 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The grant aims to develop new computational models to uncover the functional architecture of the brain and its role in enabling complex behaviors like navigation and decision-making. Specifically, the project will: Identify the brain systems underlying navigation in zebrafish larvae using advanced optical imaging...

This cooperative agreement from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke will fund $8,473,173 for research exploring the neural population codes that support context-dependent behavior. The funding will support a collaborative project between New York University, Riken, and Ecole Normale Superieure from April 15, 2021 through March 31, 2024 under the National Institutes of Health's Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders program (CFDA...