Grants Funded in 2011

 

Understanding Human Cognition

SCHOLAR AWARDS (15)
Brown University
Dima Amso, Ph.D.
Emergent complexity in human development: Evidence from process-oriented investigations of attention and memory
George Washington University
Chet C. Sherwood, Ph.D.
Discovering the evolved human brain phenotype
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Amir Amedi, Ph.D.
The brain as a flexible, sensory-modality-independent task machine: From basic research to visual rehabilitation
New York University
Nathaniel D. Daw, Ph.D.
Dissecting learning: combining experimental and computational approaches
University College London
Jörn Diedrichsen, Ph.D.
How does the brain learn movement? Bridging the gap between behavioral processes and functional imaging signals
University College London
Hugo J. Spiers, Ph.D.
Navigational guidance systems in the human brain
University of Aberdeen
Amelia R. Hunt, Ph.D.
Attention, perceptual continuity, and action control
University of California - Berkeley
Silvia Bunge, Ph.D.
Relational reasoning: Neural mechanisms, development, and plasticity
University of California - Berkeley
Tania Lombrozo, Ph.D.
Knowledge from nowhere: How thinking leads to learning
University of California - Los Angeles
Martin Monti, Ph.D.
Cognitive processing and awareness at the lower boundaries of consciousness: Insights from the vegetative and minimally conscious states
University of California - San Diego
David Barner, Ph.D.
Encoding abstract concepts in language
University of Cambridge
James B. Rowe, Ph.D.
Progress in understanding voluntary action
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Duane G. Watson, Ph.D.
Understanding language: Prosody and cognition
University of Leipzig
Dorothee Saur, M.D., Ph.D.
Function, dysfunction and repair of language networks
University of Rochester
Jessica F. Cantlon, Ph.D.
The origins and organization of numerical information in the mind and brain
COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITY AWARDS (4)
Carnegie Mellon University
Clark Glymour, Ph.D.
Experimental planning and the unification of causal knowledge
Fundación Ciencas Exactas y Naturales
Mariano Sigman
Support for the Second Latin American School on Education and the Cognitive and Neural Sciences
The New School for Social Research
William C. Hirst, Ph.D. & Elizabeth Phelps (New York University)
"Flashbulb Memories" Consortium II: Ten-year follow-up study on memory for the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001
Washington University School of Medicine
Lisa Tabor Connor, Ph.D. & Santosh Mathan, Honeywell International, Inc.
Cognitive state sensing for aphasia rehabilitation

Studying Complex Systems

RESEARCH AWARDS (10)
Georgia Institute of Technology
Martha A. Grover, Ph.D.
Design of an intelligent material
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Robert A. Gatenby, M.D.
Cancer therapy: Perturbing a complex adaptive system
Indiana University - Bloomington
Filippo Menczer, Ph.D. & Alessandro Flammini, Ph.D.
Contagion of ideas in online social networks
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Institute of Evolutionary Sciences
Michael Hochberg, Ph.D.
Coevolution across scales
New York University
Edo Kussell, Ph.D.
Mapping the microbial survival toolbox: Using dynamic age distributions to infer the behavior of individuals within populations
University of Connecticut
Mark C. Urban, Ph.D.
Does evolution affect the assembly dynamics of biological communities?
University of Missouri - St. Louis
Sonya Bahar, Ph.D.
Complex dynamics, phase transitions, and scaling in an evolutionary model
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
José A. Rial, Ph.D.
Synchronization of polar climate variability over the last ice age: In search of simple rules at the heart of climate's complexity
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Stephen J. Walsh, Ph.D.
Modeling population-environment interactions in a world heritage site: Comparison of statistical and agent-based modeling approaches to study complex systems
University of Queensland
Mark A. Ragan, Ph.D.
Constructing bacterial genetic exchange communities

Researching Brain Cancer

RESEARCH AWARDS (7)
Duke University
Hai Yan, M.D., Ph.D.
Role of IDH1/2 mutations in cell metabolism, differentiation and gliomagenesis
German Cancer Research Center
Stefan Pfister, M.D.
Use of cerebrospinal fluid genetics for the diagnosis, subgrouping, and minimal residual disease monitoring in medulloblastoma
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Ingo K. Mellinghoff, M.D.
Genotype focused EGFR targeting in glioblastoma
Northwestern University
Alexander Stegh, Ph.D.
The Bcl2L12-microRNA-182 axis in glioblastoma
Purdue University
R. Graham Cooks, Ph.D.
Intrasurgical molecular diagnosis of human brain gliomas by mass spectrometry imaging
University of Geneva
Ariel Ruiz i Altaba, Ph.D.
Targeting glioblastoma stemness
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
H. Alex Brown, Ph.D.
Novel lipid targets in the treatment of human glioblastomas
COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITY AWARDS (1)
University of Washington
Kristin R. Swanson, Ph.D.
Predicting and controlling glioma recurrence: The role of heterogeneity and microenvironment