Bridging Brain, Mind, and Behavior:
2001 Research Awards

Note: The essays associated with the following links have been prepared to explain the goals of the research to a general audience.

Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
David Sheinberg, $397,500 over five years.
The perception of animate form: Probing the neural basis of cognition

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
Allen Mandir, $30,000 over one year.
Cognitive reorganization following peripheral nerve transposition

Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Moshe Bar, $449,997 over five years.
Revealing the perceptual and neural mechanisms of first impressions

Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Hugh Garavan, $30,000 over one year.
Functional imaging and neurorehabilition

University College London, London United Kingdom
Gabriella Vigliocco, $30,000 over one year.
Semantic fields and grammatical class effects in language use

The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Ralph Adolphs, $387,000 over six years.
Human emotion at the level of the single neuron

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sheng He, $445,319 over five years.
The role of awareness in vision

University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
Daphne Bavelier, $450,092 over five years.
Gesture, language, and the brain

Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Jeffrey Zacks, $30,000 over one year.
Converging constraints on even perception

Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Dewan Syed Fahmeed Hyder, $30,000 over one year.
Energetics of neuronal populations: Quantitative brain imaging by functional MRI