Project Grant R01HD119490
- This $138,699 Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research (CFDA 93.865) program, supports research examining how environmental context affects children's word learning. The study aims to investigate how the level of contextualization (single location vs. multiple locations) and conceptual distinctiveness of environments (e.g. kitchen vs. bedroom) influence children's ability...
- This federal Project Grant award, valued at $221,868 and awarded on December 17, 2024, was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The research aims to characterize the role of affective information in early word learning, using both observational and experimental methods. The key products or services to be delivered include: Quantifying the affective context of...
- This Project Grant award of $149,348 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to understand the behavioral and neural mechanisms underlying infants' and toddlers' language development. The research program will evaluate caregiver-infant interactions to quantify variation in infants' communicative success, examine infants' sensitivity to...
- This Project Grant award, totaling $429,000.00, was provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865). The award is funding a study to characterize "infant affinity toward screens" by measuring infants' behavioral and affective responses to screen media, including changes in visual attention, body movement, and affect. The project aims to create a...
- This $168,722 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), will support research examining transdiagnostic mechanisms of language development in infants at elevated likelihood for autism and ADHD. The key focus is on investigating the developmental trajectories of "absent reference" - a proposed mechanism of early language learning involving the...
- This federal Project Grant award of $130,210, provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to explore how in-the-moment parental responses to children's negative emotions influence the children's neural and physiological emotion regulation processes. The research will employ electroencephalography (EEG) and electrocardiography (ECG) measures to...
- This National Science Foundation project grant of $550,000 supports research to evaluate computational models of infant language acquisition against experimental data on English- and Spanish-learning infants. Funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the award will enable researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles to directly compare the output of different computational word segmentation models to infant behavioral data on the acquisition of...
- This $149,804 Project Grant award from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will support research to understand how language experience shapes language development. The research will combine functional neuroimaging (fMRI) of brain responses to language in children, adolescents, and adults with computational modeling using large language models (LLMs)...
- This Project Grant award of $725,536 was provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the federal Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173). The grant supports research aimed at optimizing intervention options for infants and toddlers with a high likelihood of developing social communication delays and language disorders, with a focus on younger siblings of children with autism. The research seeks to...
- This $299,647 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program. The grant supports collaborative research at New York University (NYU) to study language input during parent-child interactions. The project aims to document the types of language children hear from their parents and other caregivers, with a focus on potential differences in language tuning between autistic and non-autistic parents. The research will...
This federal Project Grant award of $344,356.00 was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), to the University of Texas at Austin. The project, titled "Quantity Meets Quality: Examining Input Statistics for Early Word Learning from the Infant's Point of View," aims to examine how 12- to 24-month-old infants and their parents jointly create input statistics for early word learning in everyday activities. Using head-mounted eye-tracking technology, the researchers will record infant gaze and parent speech during toy play, book reading, and meal preparation to characterize the referential uncertainty that infants face during word learning and the computational mechanisms that support successful word acquisition. The award period runs from Sep 6, 2025 to May 31, 2030.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $344.4k | 9/6/25 |