This Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (NEI), under the Vision Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.867), supports a research project titled "Development of Human Dorsal Visual Cortex." The $476,451 award, which runs from March 1, 2025 to February 28, 2030, aims to map the structural and functional development of the dorsal visual stream in the human brain across childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The research team at Princeton University will leverage...
This Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (CFDA 93.867 Vision Research) supports research to reveal fundamental mechanisms of visual selective attention. The $123,794 award will fund a project at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to investigate the neural components and computations underlying object detection and saccadic control pathways in an invertebrate model. The research aims to uncover circuit-level mechanisms for bottom-up attentional phenomena and later...
The National Eye Institute (NEI) awarded a $124,205 Project Grant under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867) to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) effective March 1, 2025 through February 28, 2027. The grant supports research to investigate how the hippocampus and primary visual cortex interact to generate coordinated mental simulations during active behavior. The project aims to test the generality of this coordination by changing external factors, study...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (NEI) Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867) will support research to investigate how humans form allocentric (world-centered) spatial maps of 3D environments using visual information, without physical exploration. The $218,068 award to the University of Pennsylvania will fund two aims: 1) Identifying brain regions that support viewpoint-independent, allocentric representations of both viewed ("scene space") and...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (CFDA 93.867 Vision Research) provides $611,546.00 to The Regents of the University of California, Berkeley to conduct research on the computational and neural mechanisms underlying sustained human perception. The project aims to investigate how attention and awareness affect persistent representations of visual stimuli, the structure and information content of field potentials and single neuron spikes in brain regions during...
This $125,734 Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (NEI), under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867), supports research to understand how distinct subregions of the prefrontal cortex modulate visual attention and processing in the visual cortex. The key objectives are to: Quantify and compare the activity of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACA) and orbitofrontal cortex (ORB) axons in the visual cortex during different stages of visual attention. Evaluate how perturbing the...
This federal Project Grant award of $371,378.00, provided by the National Eye Institute (CFDA 93.867 Vision Research), supports research to investigate the mechanisms of vision processing at the center-of-gaze (or fovea) in the primary visual cortex (V1) of the macaque monkey. The research aims to provide the first detailed understanding of how the foveal V1 processes high-acuity color vision, which is fundamental to understanding human vision but remains largely unknown. The award was granted...
This Project Grant award, with Federal Grant ID F31EY036263, was provided by the National Eye Institute (NEI) under the Vision Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.867). The award will support research at the University of Chicago focused on understanding how the brain's cortical hierarchies mediate visual categorization. The key research aims are to: Conduct simultaneous electrophysiological recordings in the lateral intraparietal region (LIP) and prefrontal cortex (PFC) of non-human...
This Project Grant award of $399,042 from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support research at Dartmouth College investigating audiovisual attention mechanisms in the human brain. The research aims to examine how spatial location serves as a basis for integrating visual and auditory signals to form a coherent perceptual experience. Key activities include assessing the temporal dynamics of cross-modal attention, exploring...
This Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (NEI), under the federal Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867), provides $688,882 in funding to the University of Chicago to conduct research on the neuronal computations that underlie rapid and flexible visual categorical decisions. The research aims to understand how coordinated neuronal activity across brain regions supports decision-making related to visual stimuli, which is critical for addressing conditions like Alzheimer's...