Project Grant R01NS138157
- This federal Project Grant award for $434,296 was provided by the National Eye Institute (NEI) under the Vision Research grant program (CFDA 93.867) with the goal of studying the neural and computational mechanisms underlying natural viewing behavior in primates, including humans and macaques. The research aims to determine how primates prioritize and guide their visual exploration, and how this is supported by activity in the visual cortex and thalamus. The award recipient, President and...
- 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 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 $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 federal Project Grant award of $249,000.00 from the National Eye Institute (NEI) under the Vision Research program (CFDA 93.867) is supporting research to understand how information is processed across different layers of the human cortex and how this relates to perception and learning. The key objectives of the research are to: 1) validate the use of functional MRI to measure layer-specific cortical activity and correlate this with behavioral measures, 2) map how feedforward and feedback...
- This $156,302 Project Grant was awarded by the National Eye Institute (NEI) under the Vision Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.867) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, Health Sciences Division, on March 1, 2026. The grant supports research aimed at characterizing representational geometry and learning across primate visual streams. Specifically, the research will: 1) Contrast the joint encoding of multiple objects in the inferotemporal cortex (IT) and...
- This federal Project Grant award from the National Eye Institute (CFDA 93.867 - Vision Research) supports research to understand the relationship between visual feature representation in the inferior temporal cortex and spatial representations in the medial temporal lobe of the primate brain. The $576,474 award to President and Fellows of Harvard College, operating as Harvard Medical School, will utilize innovative neuroimaging and analysis techniques to characterize how visual and spatial...
- This Project Grant award of $476,451.00 from the National Eye Institute (NEI), under the Vision Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.867), will fund a comprehensive research study on the development of the human dorsal visual cortex. The primary objectives are to: 1) Produce detailed functional and structural atlases charting the maturation of dorsal visual stream representations and underlying neural tissue structures across childhood, adolescence, and adulthood; and 2) Determine how broader...
- This $473,750 Project Grant awarded by the National Eye Institute (CFDA 93.867 - Vision Research) supports a pilot study at Boston University to generate a first-ever, cell-type-specific, functional map of face processing areas in the primate brain using the common marmoset model. The researchers will leverage newly generated atlases of molecularly-defined cell types in the marmoset brain to survey and relate the genetic identity of different face areas and individual face cells to their...
- 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 $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 simultaneously record neural activity across multiple nodes of the macaque face patch network. They will develop novel computational models to analyze the dynamics of these neural representations with millisecond resolution, focusing on scenarios where generative feedback is critical, such as perceiving ambiguous images. This collaborative research project seeks to elucidate the neural mechanisms underlying coherent visual perception and will run from August 2025 through June 2030.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $1.1m | 8/11/25 |