Eastern European Science Initiative

This is a Legacy Program that awarded grants 1992-1999.



Eastern European Science Initiative (n=39)

Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg and Washington University in St. Louis
Yuri Moshalenko and Thomas A. Woolsey
Eastern European Support (studying the relationship between neuronal activity and the accompanying changes in local blood flo

1995
$165,765
Russia
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University & Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Charles Schroder, Ph.D.
Defining the neural bases of cognitive processes.

1993
$160,592
USA
Brandeis University & University of Tartu
Robert Sekuler, Ph.D.
Research in the perception of motion

1993
$102,300
USA
Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, Rutgers University and Institute of Experimental Medicine, and Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Gyorgy Buzsaki and Tamas Freund
Network Oscillations in the Hippocampus: The role of inhibitory interneurons

1997
$70,728
USA
Drexel University & Russian Academy of Sciences
Gary Strong, Ph.D.
Oscillatory Neural Networks for Preattention and Attention Modeling

1993
$56,000
USA
Eotvos Lorand University & Rutgers University
Ilona Kovas and Thomas Papathomas
Spatial Continuity, Contour Closure and Skeletons: Psychophysical, Physiological, and Computational Aspects of Perceptual Org

1995
$86,070
Hungary
Foundation of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ
Richard Nowakowski, Ph.D.
Collaborative research & training in the field of Developmental Molecular and Behavioral/Cognitive Neuroscience for scientists from Russia & elsewhere in Eastern Europe.

1993
$152,848
USA
Georgetown University Medical Center
Josef Rauschecker
Neurobehavioral and Neuroanatomical Studies of the Auditory System in Dogs

1998
$146,465
USA
Marine Biological Laboratory
John Burris, Ph.D.
Eastern European Support

1993
$53,360
USA
Medical University of Lubeck
Martin Schuermann
EEG Oscillations and Modes of Cognitive Processing in the Human Brain

1998
$107,525
Germany
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, and Czech Republic Academy of Sciences
Veronique Bohbot Andre Fenton, and Jan Bures
The Mnemonic Contributions of the Hippocampus: From selective lesions to electrophysiology

1997
$93,300
Canada
Moscow State University & University of Oxford
Galina Paramei and Phil Benson
Perceptual Studies of Affect in Humans

1995
$55,234
Russia
Moscow University and Carnegie Mellon University
Peter Brusilovsky and John Anderson
Creating More Versatile Intelligent Learning Environments on the Basis of Cognitive Analysis of Knowledge Being Learned

1994
$59,400
Russia
MRC Anatomical Neuropharmacology Unit, Oxford University, and Jozsef Attila University
Peter Somogyi Eberhard Buhl, and Gabor Tamas
The Role of Distinct Interneuronal Populations in the Generation of Fast Cortical Network Oscillations

1997
$92,900
United Kingdom
National Center for Scientific Research, France and Tbilisi State Medical University
Catherine Thinus-Blanc and Helen Phagava
How to Compensate for Early Blind Persons' Spatial Deficits: A study of optimal strategies for processing spatial information

1997
$59,700
France
National Insitute of Mental Health & Nencki Institute
Malgorzata Kossut
Learning Dependent Processes in the Barrel Cortex

1999
$862,50
Poland
New School for Social Research
William Hirst
Revitalizing Psychology in Romania

1995
$191,700
USA
New School University
William Hirst
Advancement of Psychology in Romania

1999
$132,000
USA
NIMH, NIH and Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology
Mortimer Mishkin and Danula Kowalska
Effects of Medical Temporal Removals on Auditory Recognition in Monkeys

1994
$86,250
USA
Ohio State University
Peter Culicover
The Dynamics of Grammar: Dynamical Systems Modeling of Language Acquisition and Language Change

1998
$131,500
USA
Research Foundation of the State University of New York
John Robinson
Neuropeptide Receptor Signal Transduction as a Target for Drug Development for the Treatment of Cognitive Disorders

1998
$146,400
USA
Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey
Thomas Pappathomas, Ph.D.
Spatial Continuity, Contour Closure & Skeletons: Psychophysical, Physiological, and Computational Aspects of Perceptual Organization

1996
$86,070
USA
Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey
Howard Poizner, Ph.D.
Collaboration with scientists from the Institute for Information Transmission Problems, Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Pointing Movements and Processes of Cognition.

1992
$55,234
USA
The New School
William Hirst, Ph.D.
Visiting scholars program in Romania.

1993
$208,416
USA
UCLA School of Medicine
Istvan Mody
The Role of Synaptic and Extrasynaptic GABAA Receptors in Cortical Networks

1999
$101,736
USA
University of Arizona
W. Jake Jacobs and Lynn Nadel
Spatial Cognition in Several Groups of Patients

1998
$126,830
USA
University of Arizona & Pecs Medical School, Hungary
Lynn Nadel and Laszlo Seress
Collaborative research for studies of the neural, cognitive, and behavioral components of spatial cognition, learning and mem

1994
$102,100
USA
University of California - Davis & Nencki Institute
Leo Chalupa, Ph.D.
Learning induced cortical plasticity.

1993
$90,000
USA
University of California - San Diego & Hungarian Academy of Sciences & New Bulgiarian University
Elizabeth Bates, Ph.D.
Collaboration with Dr. Judit Osman-Sagi, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, and with Dr. Boicho Kokinov, Dept. of Cognitive Science, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria.

1993
$34,010
USA
University of California - San Diego, & New Bulgarian University
Elizabeth Bates Elena Andonova, Encho Gerganov, and Boicho Kokinov, and Ludmil Mavlov
Cross-linguistic Studies of Aphasia in Eastern Europe

1996
$101,914
USA
University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, and Moscow Mental Health Research Center
Natalya Uranova William Greenough, James Black, and Anna Klintsova
Brain Structure and Experience in the Normal Human Brain and in Altered Cognitive States in Schizophrenia

1997
$95,940
USA
University of Oregon
Michael Posner, Ph.D.
Training grant for Yalchin G. Abdullaev, Ph.D., Brain Center, Leningrad.

1994
$79,146
USA
University of Oregon, and Russian Academy of Sciences
Michael Posner and Alexy Ivanitsky
Communication Between Brain Regions During Thought

1997
$84,601
USA
University of Oxford
Philip Benson, Ph.D.
Perceptual Studies of Affect in Humans

1996
$31,536
United Kingdom
University of Oxford & Charles University - Faculty of Medicine
Miroslav Kuba
Electrophysiological Assessment of Human Cognitive Processes

1999
$61,880
Czech Republic
University of South Dakota
X. T. Wang
Risk Perception and Risky Choice in Social and Cultural Contexts: A Russian Study

1999
$33,660
USA
University of Southern California
Irving Biederman
The Neural and Psychophysical Studies of Shape Representation In the Ventral Pathway of the Macaque

1999
$108,022
USA
University of Southern California & Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Medical University
Irving Biederman Gyorgy Benedek, and Gyula Kovcs
Neural and Psychophysical Studies of Shape representation in the Ventral Pathway of the Macaque

1996
$108,022
USA
Washington University in St. Louis
Randy J. Larsen
Transcranial Doppler and EEG Studies of Affective Dispositions

1999
$96,360
USA
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