This National Science Foundation (NSF) grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $648,938 to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey to conduct research on how infants learn about emotions through their everyday social interactions. The project aims to document the emotional expressions that infants see in natural settings and how this "emotional input" informs their developing understanding of emotions. Researchers will use...
This $131,333 federal Project Grant award from 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 to investigate the emotional and biobehavioral mechanisms underlying parent-infant emotional synchrony. The overarching goal is to uncover the origins of early dyadic interactions and their impact on later child socioemotional functioning, with the aim of developing targeted...
This Project Grant award, identified as F32HD115302, 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 $241,032 award supports a comprehensive investigation by a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Southern California into the neurophysiological underpinnings of clinically observable sensory reactivity features in infants at varying levels...
The federal Project Grant award R00HD110605, in the amount of $600,914.01, 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 will fund a research project titled "Neonatal Stress in Very Preterm Infants: Longitudinal Effects on Epigenetics and Neurodevelopment" at the University of Iowa. The project aims to investigate the...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) provides $146,816 to The Leland Stanford Junior University to conduct research on how affective information shapes early word learning in children. The research aims to quantify the affective context of children's learning environments using experimental studies and observational analyses of video data,...
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) awarded a $1,142,622 Project Grant under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) to the University of Massachusetts Boston. The purpose of this 3-year grant, with a start date of April 14, 2025, is to better understand the development and capacity of episodic future thinking (EFT) in early childhood. The project aims to quantify the processing capacity of EFT during memory retrieval...
This $537,730 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to develop advanced in vivo magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technologies for studying infant brain development. The primary objectives are to achieve motion-robust, high-resolution (600mm isotropic) whole-brain quantitative MRI (qMRI) and diffusion MRI (dMRI) within clinically feasible scan...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, will support research to better understand how infants learn language by studying their interactions with caregivers. The $213,467 award, which runs from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2028, will fund two related studies. The first study will observe parents and infants playing together while recording the infants' eye movements to determine when speech is...
This $779,911 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (CFDA 93.865 - Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research) aims to evaluate the impact of a music-based intervention (MBI) on preterm infant stress, brain development, and long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes. The MBI will be delivered to preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) between 32-40 weeks gestation, with outcomes assessed during the NICU stay and up to 2...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under CFDA 93.865 Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research supports research to elucidate when and how infants learn about the distinct causal properties of people versus inanimate objects. The $158,500 award to Vanderbilt University's Sponsored Programs Administration will fund two studies and a computational model to test competing theories on the developmental mechanisms underlying...