Funded Awards

Project Summary Significance. The human brain has a dedicated neural system for processing other humans. However relatively little is known about the basic mechanisms of this processing.

Project Summary/Abstract The objective of “Brain Computer Interfaces and Disability: Developing an Inclusive Ethical Framework (BCI- DEF)” is to use structured vignettes, video-supported interviews, and a deliberative democracy approach to assess and analyze diverse, critical stakeholder perspective

Project Summary Primary motor cortex (M1) and the locus ceruleus (LC) both contribute in essential ways to the generation of purposive movements – with M1 and its pyramidal tract (PT) neurons involved in action planning and execution, the and LC and its noradrenergic axonal projections involved in a

This two-year project will advance, integrate, document, and promote the use of the Hierarchical Event Descriptor (HED) system to describe events in human neuroimaging and behavioral data from research experiments and other sources in sufficient detail to support comparative analysis of human brain

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Intracranial recordings in patients undergoing neurosurgical interventions provide a unique opportunity to directly access, study, and learn about both normal human brain function and neuropsychiatric disease.

ABSTRACT Morphology is an essential phenotype in the characterization of cells and their states. It reflects the progression of functional cellular processes, such as morphogenesis, migration, or dendrite arborization, and can be indicative of disease.

Project abstract BRAIN pioneers are people who take on significant risk as participants in first-in-human or early neurotechnology studies for the sake of helping to further science.

Project summary Our lives unfold over time, weaving rich, dynamic, and multisensory information into a continuous experience. However, we remember this as a series of discrete events. For example, the memory of a two-hour movie consists of a few memorable moments tied to the main story.

This proposal will investigate neural circuits driving negative phototaxis in an emerging model for neural circuit analysis: larvae of the primitive chordate Ciona. Ciona larvae have a number of features that make them ideally suited for this project.

Summary This proposal will investigate the neural dynamics underlying three-dimensional foraging behavior, with three overarching goals. The first is to evaluate the neural computations of foraging in dynamic environments in naturalistic settings.

Abstract Vision is an active process: we move our head and eyes to explore the sensory world.

Project Summary Divisive normalization (DN) is a well-established theory of how interactions between neurons in a circuit modulate the activity of individual neurons.

PROJECT SUMMARY How our brain achieves coherent perception by integrating information from parallel sensory pathways distributed across space and time remains a central question in neuroscience.

When learning a new task, both rats and humans exhibit suboptimal behaviors plagued with superstitious ticks and idiosyncratic biases.

What operations are performed by the mammalian central nervous systems to coordinate and conduct voluntary movement? Motor systems neuroscience seeks to understand these neural mechanisms.

Neuroimaging methods such as functional MRI and magneto- / electroencephalography (MEG/EEG) cannot directly reveal causal relationships between regional brain activity and behavior.