Bridging Brain, Mind, and Behavior:
2002 Research Awards
Note: The essays associated with the following links have been prepared to explain the goals of the research to a general audience.
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California
Athanassios Siapas, $445,120 over five years.
Network mechanisms of memory
formation
Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Marc Hauser, $449,223 over five years.
The evolution of language:
Perceptual and computational constraints
New York University, New York, New York
Paul Glimcher, $449,048 over five years.
Neurobiology of human decision
making
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Heather Bortfeld, $100,000 over one and a half years.
Neural correlates of infant
word recognition
University of California-San Diego, San Diego, California
Robert Clark, $441,434 over five years.
Learning, storage and retrieval:
An improved approach to dissecting hippocampal function
University of Oxford, Oxford, England
Anna Nobre, $429,780 over four years.
Orienting attention to mental
representations
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Julie Fiez, $446,796 over four years.
The functional neuroanatomy
of reading: Comparative research across writing systems
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Guy Elston, $476,000 over three years.
The pyramidal cell phenotype
in consciousness: A comparative study of its evolution
University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas
Michael Kilgard, $446,000 over five years.
Brain plasticity and neuro-rehabilitation
