21st Century Science Initiative

Understanding Human Cognition: Recent Grants

2011 Grants
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
2010 Grants
SCHOLAR AWARDS (12)
INSERM (Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale)
Alessandro Farnè, Ph.D.
Spatial awareness: Normality, pathology and rehabilitation
Karolinska Institute
H. Henrik Ehrsson, Ph.D., M.D.
Multisensory mechanism of body ownership and the projection of ownership onto artificial bodies
Princeton University
Asif A. Ghazanfar, Ph.D.
Vocal communication emerges and evolves through coupled oscillations
Stanford University
Lera Boroditsky, Ph.D.
Mental representations of abstract domains
Stanford University
Noah D. Goodman, Ph.D.
Compositionality in probabilistic models of cognition
The New School for Social Research
Daniel Casasanto, Ph.D.
How experience shapes the mind: Roles of language, culture, and body
Trinity College Dublin
Conor J. Houghton, Ph.D.
How is sensory information encoded in spike trains?
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Ph.D.
The human brain in numbers: Comparative quantitative studies of the cellular composition of the nervous system of humans and other mammals to investigate the morphological bases of our cognitive advantage
University College London
Marko Nardini, Ph.D.
Development of human spatial cognition
University of California - Davis
Simona Ghetti, Ph.D.
Building blocks of episodic memory: Insight from typical and atypical development
University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign
Kara D. Federmeier, Ph.D.
Cognitive and neural mechanisms of meaning comprehension
Yale University
Laurie R. Santos, Ph.D.
To err is human?: Exploring the evolutionary origins of cognitive biases
COLLABORATIVE ACTIVITY AWARDS (2)
Rotman Research Institute of Baycrest Centre Hospital
A. Randall McIntosh, Ph.D.
Brain Network Recovery Group (Brain NRG) Phase II
Washington University in St. Louis
Steven E. Petersen, Ph.D.
Communities and criticality in brain networks across development and in ADHD
SPECIAL INITIATIVE AWARDS (2)
Association for Psychological Science
Alan Kraut, Ph.D.
To support the development and public outreach efforts for the upcoming publication of "Psychological Science in the Public Interest (PSPI)" on giftedness and gifted education
Lombardy Veneto Province Hospital Order of St. John of God, The Brothers of St. John of God
Carlo Miniussi
Noninvasive brain stimulation: new tools, new concepts, and an integrated approach to cognitive neurorehabilitation