Bridging Brain, Mind, and Behavior: 2000-2006 Awards
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| Columbia University, New York, New York Principal Investigator: Charles D. Salzman, $450,000 over three years. Learning about value in a complex world: neurophysiology and theory |
University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Principal Investigators: Richard N. Aslin Program grant to develop near infrared spectroscopy to assess cognitive development in human infants and young children |
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| New York University, New York, New York Principal Investigator: Wendy A. Suzuki, $450,000 over three years. A neuroethological approach to memory and cognition in monkeys |
New York University, New York, New York Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Phelps Affect, learning and decision- making |
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Stanford University, Stanford, California Principal Investigator: Jennifer L. Raymond, $450,000 over four years. Computing time in the cerebellum |
Brain, Mind & Behavior Special Initiative:
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom |
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| University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado Principal Investigator: Walter Kintsch, $449,019 over three years. Approximating meaning: structured statistical semantics |
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| University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Principal Investigator: Alexandre Pouget, $449,731 over six years. Neural basis of Bayesian inference and decision making: theory and experiments |
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| 2005 Research Awards | 2005 Collaborative Awards | |
| Columbia University, New York, New York Principal Investigator: Herbert S. Terrace, $449,984 over three years. The evolution of metacognition |
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California Principal Investigator: John M. Allman, Collaborators: Patrick Hof, Julie Korenberg, & Kebreten Manaye The Von Economo Neurons: a comparative and developmental study |
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| Medical Research Council, London, United Kingdom Principal Investigator: John Duncan, $449,729 over four years. Neural mechanisms of attention studied with cross-species fMRI and single cell physiology |
Rotman Research Institute of Baycrest Centre Hospital,
Ontario, Canada Principal Investigator: A. Randall McIntosh, Collaborators: Michael Breakspear, Karl Friston, Maria-Felice Ghilardi, Rolf Kotter, Nancy Lobaugh, Mary-Pat McAndrews, Cathy Price, Nicholas Schiff, Steven Small, Ana Solodkin, Olaf Sporns, Stephen Strother, Giulio Tononi, Richard Zemel Network mechanisms underlying cognition and recovery of function in the human brain |
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| University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles,
California Principal Investigator: Russell A. Poldrack, $449,956 over five years. Habit, automaticity, and cognitive control |
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Principal Investigator: Isabel Gauthier The perceptual expertise network: Dynamics in object perception |
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| University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston,
Texas Principal Investigator: Valentin Dragoi, $452,353 over five years. State-dependent cortical activity and visual behavior |
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Principal Investigator: Carolyn M. Baum Linking neuroscience to everyday life |
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| 2004 Research Awards | 2004 Collaborative Awards | |
| No Research Awards Grant Competition in 2004 | Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Principal Investigator: Jon Kaas, Co-Principal Investigator: Troy Hackett Deciphering neural codes for perception using chronic, multi-site microelectrode recordings from auditory and multisensory cortical fields in behaving monkeys |
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| Partnership for Child Development, Imperial
College London, United Kingdom Principal Investigator: Matthew Jukes, Co-Principal Investigators: Donald Bundy-International School Health Initiative (World Bank); Robert Sternberg and Elena Grigorenko-Yale University Developing cognitive tools to understand the mechanisms of HIV/AIDS prevention in Kenyan Primary Schools |
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| 2003 Research Awards | 2003 Collaborative Awards | |
| Columbia University, New York, New York Principal Investigator: Michael Goldberg, $450,000 over three years. Oculomotor proprioception and spatial behavior |
American Psychological Association,
New York, New York Principal Investigator: Rena Subotnik The other 3 R's: Reasoning, resilience, responsibility |
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| Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel Principal Investigator: Ehud Zohary, $450,000 over three years. Cognitive performance and cortical reorganization in blindness |
Rutgers, the State University of New
Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey Principal Investigator: Rochel Gelman What is dyscalculia? A question for collaborative study |
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| Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland Principal Investigator: Riitta Salmelin, $450,000 over four years. Real-time neural connectivity in natural language perception and production |
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Principal Investigators: Henry Roediger and Kathleen McDermott Applying cognitive psychology to enhance educational practice |
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| National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS),
Paris, France Principal Investigator: Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz, $423,100 over six years. Exploring the organization of the infant brain with functional imaging |
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| New York State Department of Health, Albany, New
York Principal Investigator: Jonathan Wolpaw, $450,000 over five years. A non-invasive brain-computer interface for prosthesis control |
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| Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco,
California Principal Investigator: Matteo Carandini, $310,716 over three years. Beyond receptive fields in visual cortex |
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| University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona Principal Investigator: Diana Archangeli, $93,770 over one year. Coordinating mental, motor, and perceptual constraints in language |
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| University of California-Davis, Davis, California Principal Investigator: Mitchell Sutter, $449,696 over five years. Neural correlates of auditory fill-in |
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| 2002 Research Awards | 2002 Collaborative Awards | |
| California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California Athanassios Siapas, $445,120 over five years. Network mechanisms of memory formation |
Brain Trauma Foundation, New York, New
York Principal Investigator: Jamshid Ghajar Funded for three years in support of collaborative research investigating the hypothesis that the chronic disabilities due to mild brain injury result from disruptions of the connections between the cerebral cortex and the cerebellum. |
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| Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Marc Hauser, $449,223 over five years. The evolution of language: Perceptual and computational constraints |
Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Principal Investigator: Todd M. Preuss Funded for three years in support of collaborative research entitled Interrogating the Genome to Uncover Human Specializations of the Brain and Cognition. |
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| New York University, New York, New York Paul Glimcher, $449,048 over five years. Neurobiology of human decision making |
New School University, New York, New
York Principal Investigator: William Hirst, Co-Principal Investigator: Elizabeth A. Phelps Funded for one year in support of a collaborative research team studying how memories of significant and/or traumatic events are altered over time. |
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| Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas Heather Bortfeld, $100,000 over one and a half years. Neural correlates of infant word recognition |
State University of New Jersey-Rutgers,
Newark, New Jersey Principal Investigator: Mark Gluck Funded for three years to support a multi-institutional, multi-national collaborative study investigating the neural substrates of category learning. Visit the website: Cognitive Neuroscience of Category Learning Consortium |
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| 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 |
State University of New Jersey-Rutgers,
Newark, New Jersey Principal Investigators: Stephen J. Hanson, Catherine Hanson and Paul Kantor Funded for three years to support the development of approaches for acquiring functional brain imaging data from subjects engaged in cognitive tasks designed to reveal the dynamic aspect of the spatial-temporal interactions among brain regions. |
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| University of Oxford, Oxford, England Anna Nobre, $429,780 over four years. Orienting attention to mental representations |
University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley,
California Principal Investigator: Mimi Koehl Funded for three years for collaborative study of how the physical distribution of sensory stimuli in the environment is represented in an organism's nervous system. |
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| University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Julie Fiez, $446,796 over four years. The functional neuroanatomy of reading: Comparative research across writing systems |
The grants listed below, while not strictly "collaborative activities" as described on the JSMF website, were awarded by the Foundation following external review of invited proposal submissions. These projects either represent unusual opportunities for JSMF to support projects relevant to the foundation's program development or they present ways for JSMF to support research of fundamental importance the topical areas supported by the 21st Century Science Initiative. |
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| University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Guy Elston, $476,000 over three years. The pyramidal cell phenotype in consciousness: A comparative study of its evolution |
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania Principal Investigator: Richard Scheines Funded for two years to develop a web-based course on statistics and causal reasoning that can be used by universities and colleges around the world. |
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| University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas Michael Kilgard, $446,000 over five years. Brain plasticity and neuro-rehabilitation |
University of West Florida Foundation,
Pensacola, Florida Principal Investigator: David Danks Funding for a one year planning grant to investigate applications of Bayesian statistics to social and behavioral sciences. |
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| Washington University School of Medicine,
Saint Louis, Missouri Co-Principal Investigators: Jeff. W. Lichtman and Joshua R. Sanes Funded for three years to establish new ways of studying neural connectivity in transgenic mice models. Visit the website: Washington University Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology |
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| 2001 Research Awards | 2001 Collaborative Awards | |
| Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island David Sheinberg, $397,500 over five years. The perception of animate form: Probing the neural basis of cognition |
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Miguel Nicolelis, John Chapin, John Kaas Funded over two years in support of a collaborative activity project to study how neuronal networks accomplish motor learning. |
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| Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Allen Mandir, $30,000 over one year. Cognitive reorganization following peripheral nerve transposition |
Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA Funded over three yars. The impact of the Williams Syndrome mutations on neural organization and brain function: A window into social cognition Principal Investigator: Ursula Bellugi, Co-Principal Investigators: David Amaral (UC-Davis), Julie Korenberg (UCLA), Marcus Raichle, (Washington University), Steve Suomi (NIH) and Edward Callaway (Salk). |
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| Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Moshe Bar, $449,997 over five years. Revealing the perceptual and neural mechanisms of first impressions |
University of Massachusetts Medical
School, Amherst, MA Adele Diamond, B.J. Casey and Yuko Munakata Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience – Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, funded over eighteen months in support of a multi-institutional study panel and textbook on developmental cognitive neuroscience. |
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| Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Hugh Garavan, $30,000 over one year. Functional imaging and neurorehabilition |
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
Minnesota Exploring the neurosubstrates ofEEG asymmetry Principal Investigator: Charles A. Nelson, Co-Principal Investigators: David Amaral (University of California-Davis), Judy Cameron (University of Pittsburgh), and Nathan Fox (University of Maryland), funded over two years. |
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| University College London, London United Kingdom Gabriella Vigliocco, $30,000 over one year. Semantic fields and grammatical class effects in language use |
University of Rochester, Rochester,
New York Richard N. Aslin and Jacques Mehler Funded over two years in support of a task force on infant looking methods used to assess cognitive development. |
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| The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa Ralph Adolphs, $387,000 over six years. Human emotion at the level of the single neuron |
Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
and the Rotman Research Center, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Brain recovery: Return of cognitive and social function Principal Investigators: Carolyn Baum and Donald Stuss, funded over three years. |
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| University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota Sheng He, $445,319 over five years. The role of awareness in vision |
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| University of Rochester, Rochester, New York Daphne Bavelier, $450,092 over five years. Gesture, language, and the brain |
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| Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri Jeffrey Zacks, $30,000 over one year. Converging constraints on even perception |
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| Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Dewan Syed Fahmeed Hyder, $30,000 over one year. Energetics of neuronal populations: Quantitative brain imaging by functional MRI |
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| Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Lori Holt, $449,515 over three years. Converging Models of the Influence of Experience upon Perception |
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire Principal Investigator: Scott Grafton Mechanisms of Forward Thinking and Behavior |
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| McGill University - Montreal Neurological Institute,
Montreal, Canada Michael Petrides, $394,918 over six years. Memory Retrieval in Nonhuman Primates: A Comparison with Human Memory |
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee Principal Investigator: Isabel Gauthier Expertise in Object Perception |
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| New York University, New York, New York Elizabeth Phelps, $450,000 over three years. Understanding the Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms Underlying Social Evaluation |
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| University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Nuria Sebastian-Galles, $437,755 over six years. Early Language Acquisition and Bilinguilism |
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| University of Oregon - Sackler Institute, Eugene,
Oregon Michael Posner, $450,000 over three years. Understanding and Enhancing Self Regulation in Toddlers |
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| University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom Andrew Parker, $366,518 over five years. The Perception of Geometric and Organic Shape |
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