Project Grant W911NF261A083

This Project Grant award of $1,241,250.00 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports a collaborative research project to investigate the role of brain waves in the prefrontal cortex during categorization decision-making tasks. The project involves a close collaboration between computational and experimental neuroscientists to leverage a neural modeling framework to link macroscale oscillatory brain activity...

This $500,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems Engineering program will fund research into magnetoelectric nanoparticles as multi-field controlled devices for wireless brain stimulation. Led by researchers at the University of Miami, the three-year project aims to experimentally study the feasibility of using magnetoelectric nanoparticles to achieve wireless deep brain stimulation with sub-millimeter spatial resolution in...

This three-year, $1,199,824 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computing and Communication Foundations, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), will support the development of a "RADIORTML" platform at Northeastern University. RADIORTML aims to demonstrate the feasibility of automatically optimizing radio frequency integrated circuits in real-time through machine learning techniques implemented directly on...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering awarded the University of Pittsburgh a 3-year, $350,000 Project Grant to develop an innovative closed-loop brain-computer interface (BCI) system for use in exposure therapy for socially fearful teenagers with depression and anxiety. The proposed technology synchronizes electroencephalogram (EEG) monitoring with augmented reality (AR) simulations of social fear scenarios, enabling real-time detection of fearful responses and...

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke has awarded Albert Einstein College of Medicine a $2,923,021 Project Grant under the 21st Century Cures Act - Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative (CFDA 93.372). The grant, titled "Integrative Analysis of Adaptive Information Processing and Learning-Dependent Circuit Reorganization in the Auditory System," will fund research to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying auditory...

This $401,918 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research by the University of Rochester to investigate neural mechanisms underlying how the brain processes complex sounds like speech and music across different timescales. The key objectives are to use computational models and neural recordings from auditory cortex to understand the brain's flexible integration of sound information over...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $533,853 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for research on the perception and cognition of sound texture. The investigators will develop a computational framework to understand the properties of environmental noises that underlie human perception. This involves assembling a large dataset...

This NSF Engineering program Project Grant award to Brown University, totaling $383,560, will support the development of a large-scale wireless network of microchip sensors for monitoring physiological signals and brain activity. The overarching goal is to create an "all-in-one" approach to build a wireless network of thousands of sub-millimeter size sensors that can efficiently transmit and decode sparse event-driven signals, taking inspiration from the brain's neural activity. The...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program provides $440,640.00 to the University of Arizona to investigate the use of oscillating electromagnetic fields to modulate glymphatic system activity and brain waste clearance. The research aims to measure the global and regional impacts of slow-wave brain activity entrainment on glymphatic...

This NSF Engineering Program award of $605,320 to North Carolina State University (NC State) supports the development of a flexible, FMRI-compatible neural probe with multi-modal sensing and modulation capabilities. The novel probe is designed to advance understanding of neural circuit dynamics and enable closed-loop neuromodulation for treating neurological disorders. Key product elements include: Flexible, multi-shank neural probe fabricated using polymeric materials to enable deep brain...