Project Grant K99EY037819
- This federal Project Grant award of $1,038,798, provided by the National Eye Institute (NEI) under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867), supports research on sensorimotor processing in the oculomotor system and how it relates to the interception of moving targets through saccadic eye movements. The research project, led by the University of Pittsburgh, aims to investigate how the brain's representation of a moving target's location and motion affects sensory and motor processes involved...
- This Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (CFDA 93.867 - Vision Research) provides funding to researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to study the neural mechanisms underlying visual processing and behavior after photoreceptor degeneration. The $237,588 award, spanning June 2025 through December 2027, will leverage the vertical optokinetic reflex (OKR) - a visual behavior that tracks global motion - to investigate how cone degeneration disrupts noise...
- This federal Project Grant award of $123,794 from the National Eye Institute's Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867) supports research to reveal the fundamental mechanisms of visual selective attention. The principal investigator at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) will leverage an invertebrate model system to identify the neural components and computations underlying object detection and saccadic control pathways. These studies aim to further the understanding of simple...
- This Project Grant award of $232,500 from the National Eye Institute (CFDA 93.867 - Vision Research) supports research at The Johns Hopkins University to investigate the use of micro-stimulation of mid-level and higher-level visual cortex as a prosthetic strategy for restoring 3D object vision. The research aims to demonstrate that micro-stimulation of specific V4 neuron clusters that encode 3D geometric shape fragments can causally influence 3D shape perception in macaque monkeys. If...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (CFDA 93.867 - Vision Research) provides $127,785 to the University of California, San Diego to conduct research on the neural mechanisms underlying active vision in freely moving marmoset monkeys. The research aims to investigate how the primate visual system, including brain regions like the primary visual cortex (V1), visual area V4, and frontal eye field (FEF), supports visual processing and attention during natural exploratory...
- This $688,882 Project Grant awarded by the National Eye Institute (NEI) under the Vision Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.867) supports a multidisciplinary research project on the neuronal computations underlying rapid and flexible visual categorical decision-making in humans. The project employs a combination of large-scale neuronal population recording techniques and theoretical modeling to investigate the coordinated activity within and between brain regions like the posterior parietal...
- This $1,071,930 federal Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute's Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867) aims to understand how the primate brain's ventral visual stream implements "analysis by synthesis" - a theory of how the visual system coherently perceives scenes by reconstructing them from higher-level models. The principal investigators, an expert in macaque ventral stream electrophysiology and an expert in dynamical systems modeling, will use Neuropixels probes to...
- This $517,600 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Eye Institute (NEI), under the Vision Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.867), to The Washington University in Missouri. The funding supports a research project titled "Visual Feature Competition Between Central and Peripheral Retinal Pathways" over the period from July 1, 2025 to March 31, 2030. The key objectives of the project are to: 1) behaviorally assess whether larval zebrafish can perform eye fixation...
- This $192,900 federal Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (CFDA 93.867 - Vision Research) supports research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine to investigate how locomotion affects the flow of visual information between brain areas. The project will use high-density laminar probes to record population activity from multiple visual areas in mice under different locomotive contexts. The researchers will evaluate changes in inter-areal visual signal communication using...
- This $240,750 federal Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute's Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867) aims to investigate the role of neural-glial-vascular signaling in the development of the eye's vasculature. The research has two main objectives: 1) Characterizing vasculature development and how it is altered in mice with modified retinal waves, using quantitative approaches and live imaging, and 2) Establishing the maturation of the glial-vascular unit through immunofluorescence...
This $121,771 Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute's Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867) supports research at the University of Pittsburgh to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying visual continuity. The research aims to establish an animal model for studying "blink suppression," a phenomenon where sensitivity to luminance changes is reduced when paired with blinks. The project will record neural activity at multiple levels of the visual system while animals perform this task, with the hypothesis that a "copy" of the blink motor command aligns blink-induced neural activity in a way that maintains visual perception despite the disruptions caused by blinks. The award period runs from September 15, 2025 through August 31, 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $121.8k | 9/9/25 |