McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience

This is a Legacy Program that awarded grants 1990-2000.



McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience (n=259)

Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Andre Antonio Fenton
Spatial Cognition: Contributions of Place Cells, Hippocampal Pathways, Allocentric and Idiothetic Information

1998
$123,571
Czech Republic
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Mitchell Steinschneider
Neural Basis of Phonetic Discrimination

1990
$57,647
USA
Association pour la recherche sur les maladies du c
Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz
Cerebral Bases and Early Deficits of Language Acquisition

1997
$105,000
France
Baycrest Center for Geriatric Care
Suzanna Becker
A Connectionist Account of Priming Effects and the Implicit-Explicit Memory Distinction

1992
Canada
Baylor College of Medicine
Anne B. Sereno
The Neurophysiology of Attention

1993
$60,000
USA
Boston University
Catherine L. Harris
Coarse Coding and the Lexicon

1994
$59,912
USA
Brandeis University
Edgar Zurif
Support for a conference, "Cultural Knowledge and Domain Specificity," to be held at the U. of Michigan in October, 1990.

1990
$60,000
USA
Brown University
Jeromes Sanes
Neural Mechanisms of Preparation and Choice.

1995
$105,000
USA
Brown University
David Sheinberg
Effects of Microstimulation in the Inferotemporal Cortex of Monkeys

2000
$150,000
USA
Bucknell University
Andrea R. Halpern
PET Investigations of Auditory Imagery

1996
$86,281
USA
Calfornia Institute of Technology
John M. Allman
Research Grant--McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience

1991
$57,916
USA
California Institute of Technology
Alexander Grunewald
Body and World Centered Representations of Auditory Targets in Posterior Parietal Cortex.

1995
$105,000
USA
California Institute of Technology
Peter Steinmetz
Recording Single Neurons In Human Medial Temporal Lobe During Visual Backward Masking

2000
$141,555
USA
Cambridge University
Lorraine K. Tyler
Category Structure and Category-Specific Deficits: A Cognitive Science Approach

1998
$150,000
United Kingdom
Carnegie Mellon University
Jonathan D. Cohen
The Neural Bases of Rehearsal and Maintenance in Working Memory

1994
$59,336
USA
Carnegie Mellon University
Sonya N. Gettner
Neural Encoding of Object-Centered Spatial Coordinates

1995
$105,000
USA
Carnegie Mellon University
Clark Glymour, Ph.D.
Support for a five-day conference on theoretical and methodological issues in cognitive science. "Is There a Science of Cognition?"

1991
$140,987
USA
Carnegie Mellon University
Tai Sing Lee
The Role of the Primary Visual Cortex in High Level Perceptual Computation

1996
$105,000
USA
Carnegie Mellon University
Jill Lehman, Ph.D.
Support over three years for research on the SOAR theory of human cognition.

1991
$200,000
USA
Carnegie Mellon University
Jonathan J. Marotta
How Does Semantic Information About the Function of an Object Affect Grasping?

1998
$150,000
USA
Carnegie Mellon University
Bruce McCandliss
Brain Imaging and Cognitive Analyses of Language Processing

1996
$105,000
USA
Carnegie Mellon University
James L. McClelland
The Development and Neural Basis of Object Permenance

1993
$59,897
USA
Carnegie Mellon University
John W. Philbeck
Parietal Lobe Role in Updating Location While Locomoting

1997
$105,000
USA
Carnegie Mellon University
Richard S. Zemel
The Neural Mechanisms of Perceputal Organization

1994
$90,000
USA
Case Western Reserve University
Timothy E. Curran
ERP Studies of Recollection and Familiarity

1997
$104,758
USA
Central Institute for the Deaf
Kevin Ohlemiller, Ph.D.
Neurophysiological bases of categorical perception of voicing in consonant-vowel syllables.

1995
$74,927
USA
Children's Hospital Research Center, San Diego
Olivier J. Coenen
Investigating the Cerebellar Contribution to Sensorimotor and Cognitive Processings: fMRI and Modeling Studies

1997
$105,000
USA
Columbia University
Jonathan Cole, Ph.D.
Project and publication on issues confronting major American research universities.

1992
$45,000
USA
Columbia University
Vincent Ferrera
Neural Mechanisms of Fine Motion Discrimination

1999
$150,000
USA
Columbia University
Ning Qian
Computational, Psychological, and Physiological Studies of Biological Motion-Stereo Integration

1994
$59,797
USA
Cornell University Medical College-Sackler Institut
Ketih Purpura
Cortical Mechanisms of Visual Texture Discrimination and Segregation

1990
$60,000
USA
Dalhousie University
R. M. Klein
On the Relationships Between Overt Orienting and Covert Shifts of Visual Attention

1998
$148,697
Canada
Dartmouth College
Michael Gazzaniga, Ph.D.
In supprot of the 1990 Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience

1989
$161,350
USA
Dartmouth College
Michael Gazzaniga, Ph.D.
In support of a Center grant in the McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience.

1989
$720,000
USA
Dartmouth College
Michael Gazzaniga, Ph.D.
In support of the 1991 Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience.

1990
$169,418
USA
Dartmouth College
Michael Gazzaniga, Ph.D.
In support of the 1992 Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience.

1991
$177,889
USA
Dartmouth College
Michael Gazzaniga, Ph.D.
Support for the 1996 James S. McDonnell Foundation Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience.

1996
$79,600
USA
Dartmouth College
Michael Gazzaniga, Ph.D.
In support of the 1998 Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience.

1997
$79,600
USA
Dartmouth College
Michael Gazzaniga, Ph.D.
To support the 1998 Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience.

1998
$79,600
USA
Dartmouth College
Michael Gazzaniga, Ph.D.
Three year commitment in support of the 1999, 2000, and 2001 Summer Institutes in Cognitive Neuroscience Program

1999
$252,091
USA
Dartmouth College
Scott Johnson
Beyond Localization: Reconsidering the Issue of Category-Specific Visual Areas Through Parallel Investigations of Intracrania

2000
$149,200
USA
Dartmouth College
Janet Metcalfe
Mapping Cognitive Profile to Brain Structure

1992
$60,000
USA
Dartmouth College
Sandeep Prasada
Neural Basis for conceptual representation

2000
$146,540
USA
Duke University
Barry Giesbrecht
The Time Course and Functional Anatomy of Attentional Control

1999
$150,000
USA
Duke University
Amishi Jha
Dissociating the Components of Working Memory: An Event-Related fMRI Study of Memory Load and Distraction

1999
$149,216
USA
Duke University
Edith Kaan
Cognitive and Neural Aspects of Syntactic Reanalysis

2000
$149,200
USA
Duke University
Miguel A. L. Nicolelis
Parallel Processing of Haptic Recogntiion: An Investigation Using Simultaneous Neuronal Ensemble Recordings Across Multiple C

1994
$60,000
USA
Duke University
David C. Rubin
Episodic Memory: An fMRI Study of an Integrated Neural Response

1996
$102,708
USA
Duke University
Kevin Wilson
Reference Frame Effects in the Top-Down Control of Visual Attention

2000
$150,000
USA
Duke University Medical Center
Michael Platt
Role of Posterior Cingulate Cortex in Sensory-Motor Integration

2000
$150,000
USA
Emory University
Stephan Hamann
Encoding and Retrieval of Emotional Episodic Memory: A PET Neuroimaging Study

1997
$63,664
USA
Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences
Sidney R. Lehky
Training grant-in-aid in the McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience.

1990
$73,902
USA
Foundation for Advanced Education in the Sciences
Tim W. Pons
A Corticolimbic Pathway in Vision: Anatomical Evidence

1991
$85,313
USA
Foundation of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of NJ
Ira Black, Ph.D.
Support of an inter-institutional course and conference on the cognitive neuroscience of memory.

1991
$15,000
USA
Georgetown University Medical Center
Rhonda B. Friedman
Evaluating Cognitive Neuropsychological Models of Language Recovery with fMRI.

1995
$104,913
USA
Georgetown University Medical Center
Michael T. Ullman
Contribution of Neural Memory Circuits to Language

1998
$150,000
USA
Harvard College

Neural Network Models of High-Level Vision

1990
$106,134
USA
Harvard College
Niall McLoughlin
Optical Imaging of Stereopsis and Illusory Contour in Monkey Visual Cortex

1994
$90,000
USA
Harvard Medical School
Mark J. Tramo
Neural Coding of Communication Signals in Auditory Cortex

1997
$105,000
USA
Harvard University
Giorgio Ganis
Cognitive Neuroscience of Mental Image Transformation: fMRI and TMS studies

2000
$100,260
USA
Harvard University
Stephen M. Kosslyn
Does Visual Imagery Activate Area 17? Functional Magnetic Imaging Studies

1997
$35,000
USA
Harvard University
Bruno Laeng, Ph.D.
Cerebral Organization of Categorical and Coordinate Spatial Functions

1994
$90,000
USA
Harvard University
Margaret S. Livingstone
Interneural Synchrony Oscillatory Firing in the Primate Visual System

1990
$60,000
USA
Harvard University
Danica Mijovic-Prelec
Training Grant in the McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience: Mechanisms of Visual-Spatial Neglect

1991
$107,353
USA
Harvard University
Kevin N. Ochsner
A Social-Cognitive-Neuroscience Approach to Affect and Belief Change

1997
$105,000
USA
Harvard University
Daniel Schacter, Ph.D.
Studying Cortical Mechanisms of Visual Object Recognition and Memory by Combining Psychophysics, fMRI and MEG

1999
$100,000
USA
Harvard University
Yaoda Xu
Objects Through the Eyes of Visual Short-Term Memory

2000
$149,220
USA
Harvard University Medical School
Christopher Pack
Cortical Processing of Optic Flow for Navigation and Visual Stability

1998
$150,000
USA
International School for Advanced Studies
Mathew Diamond
Cortical Representation and Storage of Tactile Events

2000
$150,000
Italy
John P. Robarts Research Institute
Ravi S. Menon
Functional MRI of Learning Motor Strategy and Tactics.

1996
$103,949
Canada
Johns Hopkins University
David Lee Sherman, Ph.D.
Quantitative Studies of Electrocorticograms Accompanying Speech and Language

1995
$60,000
USA
King's College London
Jeffrey A. Gray
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Synaesthesia and Associative Learning.

1995
$68,064
United Kingdom
King's College London-Institute of Psychiatry
Mary Phillips
The Neural Correlates of Emotion Perception: A Multimodal Investigation using fMRI

1999
$136,221
United Kingdom
King's College London-Institute of Psychiatry
Carl Senior
The Functional Neuroanatomy of the Cognitive Representation of Motion

1999
$49,392
United Kingdom
Marine Biological Laboratory
John Burris, Ph.D.
In support of MBL's 1989 summer course and workshop in computational neuroscience.

1989
$40,000
USA
Massachusetts General Hospital
Moshe Bar
Studying Cortical Mechanisms of Visual Object Recognition and Memory by Combining Psychophysics, fMRI, and MEG

1998
$50,000
USA
Massachusetts General Hospital
David W. Gow, Jr.
Disorders of Lexical Access and Lexical Segmentation of Connected Speech

1994
$60,000
USA
Massachusetts General Hospital
Janine D. Mendola
Functional Organization of Human Ventral Visual Areas.

1996
$102,000
USA
Massachusetts General Hospital
Christopher Moore
A Moving Experience: fMRI, Psychophysics and Multi-Electrode Recording Studies of Spatio-Temporally Correlated Tactile Stimul

1999
$148,314
USA
Massachusetts General Hospital
Rajeev Raizada
Cross-Modal Processing and its Relations to Dyslexia: Psychophysics, fMRI, and Neurophysiology

2000
$149,820
USA
Massachusetts General Hospital
Jeremy D. Schmahmann
Cognitive Effects of Cerebellar Lesions in Monkeys

1998
$150,000
USA
Massachusetts General Hospital
Chantal E. Stern
Magnetic Resonance Studies of the Human Motor System

1992
$165,584
USA
Massachusetts General Hospital
Jeffrey P. Sutton
fMRI Investigation of Motor Learning for Rehabilitation

1997
$105,000
USA
Massachusetts General Hospital
Mark Tramo, Ph.D. Co-P.I.: Henry Heffner
Neural Coding of Communication Signals in Auditory Cortex

1999
$50,507
USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wael Asaad
The Neurochemical Basis of Prefrontal Cognitive Processing

2000
$75,400
USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Valentin Dragoi
Cortical Plasticity and the Processing of Natural Images

2000
$146,446
USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Susan Hespos
Optical Imaging in Human Infants

2000
$149,846
USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Zoe Kourtzi
Shape Processing in the Ventral and Dorsal Visual pathways

1999
$149,738
USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jaemin Rhee
Lexical and Grammatical Processing in the Brain

2000
$13,710
USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Maximilian Riesenhuber
Now You See It, Now You Don't: Towards a Computational Model of Object Detection in Rapidly Presented Images

2000
$131,455
USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Mriganka Sur, Ph.D.
McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience 'Center' Renewal support

1995
$1,236,626
USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jonathan D. Wallis
Cortical Representation of Affective Working Memory

1998
$63,000
USA
Max Planck Institute for Bio Cybernetics
Peter Tse
The Neural Basis of Form Analysis in the Motion Pathway: Single-Unit Recording and Monkey fMRI Studies

1998
$150,000
Germany
Max Planck Institute for Brain Research
James Waltz
Investigating the Neural Basis of Binding in Visual Short-term Memory

1999
$88,422
Germany
McGill University
Brenda Milner, Ph.D. and Michael Petrides
Support for a Center grant in the McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience.

1989
$720,000
USA
McGill University
Brenda Milner, Ph.D. and Michael Petrides
Renewal for the McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience 'Center'

1993
$528,000
USA
McMaster University
Suzanna Becker
Training grant in the McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience "A Connectionist Account of Priming Effects and the Implicit-Explicit Memory Distinction."

1993
$127,169
Canada
Medical College of Wisconsin
Jeffrey R. Binder
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging During Auditory Language Processing

1992
$60,000
USA
Medical Research Council
Karalyn Patterson
Research grant - McDonnell Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience.

1991
$59,678
United Kingdom
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University
Robert J. Zatorre
Functional Organization of the Human Auditory Cortex

1998
$146,510
Canada
Moss Rehabilitation Hospital
Myrna F. Schwartz
Towards a Cognitive Neuropsychology of Everyday Action

1990
$59,996
USA
Neurosciences Research Foundation, Inc.
Andrew B. Schwartz
Cortical Activity During Motor Illusions

1997
$105,000
USA
New York University
J. Anthony Movshon
Neural Basis of Sensorimotor Integration

1990
$30,000
USA
New York University
Elizabeth A. Phelps
Representations of Emotional Memory in the Human Brain

1990
$90,000
USA
New York University
Elizabeth Phelps, Ph.D.
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Emotional Memory

1999
$63,800
USA
New York University
Nava Rubin
The Neural Basis of Shape Representation: Towards an Intermediate-Level Analysis of Visual Surfaces

1995
$73,377
USA
New York University
Kevin Sauve
Perception, Imagery, and 40-Hz Thalamocortical Activity: A Magnetoencephalographic Investigation.

1995
$105,000
USA
New York University
Wendy Suzuki
Neural Basis of Long-Term Declarative Memory

1999
USA
Nijmegen University
Walter Van Heuven
The Wiring of the Language Network in the Bilingual Brain: fMRI Studies on Word Reading in Dutch-English Bilinguals

2000
$147,400
Netherlands
Northwester University
John D. E. Gabrieli
Neural Substrates of Human Perceptual-Motor Skill Learning

1990
$59,482
USA
Northwestern University
Darren R. Gitelman
A Network Approach to the Functional Imaging of Spatial Attention.

1996
$102,303
USA
Northwestern University
Cynthia Thompson, Ph.D.
fMRI Studies of Sentence Processing in Normal and Aphasic Subjects

1997
$105,000
USA
Northwestern University
Beverly A. Wright
Characterization and Training of Auditory Skills in Individuals with Language-Based Learning Disabilities

1995
$79,600
USA
Princeton University
Joel Cooper, Ph.D.
Support over two years for interdisciplinary research on the mechanics of human information processing in the laboratories of Cognitive Science, Engineering Anomalies, Cognitive Motivation, and Robotics/Expert Systems.

1994
$400,000
USA
Princeton University
Paul M. Gochin
Optical Imaging of Neuronal Activity in Inferior Temporal Cortex During Cognitive Visual Processing

1990
$58,557
USA
Princeton University
Michael Graziano Charles Gross
Visuo-Motor Integration in Premotor Areas of the Macaque Monkey Brain.

1995
$105,000
USA
Princeton University
Charles Gross
Neurogenesis in the Neocortex of the Adult Macaque and its Modulation by Experience

1999
$150,000
USA
Princeton University
Charles G. Gross
Neuronal Basis of Visual Imagery

1990
$60,000
USA
Princeton University
Robert Jahn, Ph.D. York Dobyns, Brenda Dunne
Support for Phase II of the Human Information Processing Group. Count Population Profiles in Engineering Anomalies Experiments

1991
$1,668,750
USA
Princeton University
George Miller, Ph.D.
Support for administrative costs of the McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience Phase II.

1992
$293,938
USA
Purdue University
Jack Gandour
Crosslinguistic PET Studies of Speech Prosody

1998
$147,169
USA
Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc.
Daniel C. Javitt
NMDA Receptors in Auditory Sensory Memory

1995
$105,000
USA
Rotman Research Institute of Baycrest Centre for Ge
Craig Easdon
Identifying the Spatiotemporal Properties of Neural Networks Underlying Inhibitory Mechanisms

2000
$150,000
Canada
Rotman Research Institute of Baycrest Centre for Ge
Anthony McIntosh
Interindividual Differences in the Functional Neural Networks Supporting Learning and Memory

2000
$148,310
Canada
Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center
Debra A. Grosse
Neocortical Networks of Implicit and Explicit Memory

1991
$56,804
USA
Rutgers University
Stephen Hanson, Ph.D. Co-P.I.: Benjamin Bly
New Methods and Concepts for Functional Brain Imaging

1999
$526,000
USA
Rutgers University
Thomas V. Papathomas
Visual Persistance and Temporal Processing Abilities in Specifically Language Impaired Children

1994
$57,951
USA
Rutgers University
Howard Poizner
Research Grant--McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience

1991
$60,000
USA
Rutgers University
Romy V Spitz and Paula Tallal
Visual Persistance and Temporal Processing Abilities in Specifically Language Impaired Children

1993
$60,000
USA
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Anne Sereno


1996
USA
Stanford University
Adam Anderson
Neural Correlates of Affective Primacy

2000
$139,691
USA
Stanford University
Stephen A. Engel
The Neural Basis of Human Color Perception

1994
$90,000
USA
Stanford University
Russell A. Poldrack
The Neural Basis of Skill Learning using fMRI

1996
$105,000
USA
Temple University
H. Branch Coslett
Spatial Differences in Language Function

1993
$60,000
USA
Temple University
Nadine Martin
The Organization of Lexical and Phonological Processes: Investigations of Naming in Normal and Aphasic Popula

1990
$60,000
USA
The Hebrew University
Ehud Zohary
Mechanisms of Short Term Memory: A Neural Population Dynamics Approach

1997
$105,000
Israel
The Keystone Center
Robert Craig, Ph.D.
Partial support for the Keystone Center's interdisciplinary science colloquium.

1991
$35,000
USA
The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Ursula Bellugi, Ph.D.
Linking Genes, Brain and Cognition

1999
$775,718
USA
The Weizmann Institute of Science
Shabtai Barash
Neural Processing Underlying Visual Segregation of Figure from Ground

1992
$60,000
Israel
Universita di Padova
Carlo Umilta
A Neurophysiologically-Motivated Computational Model of Spatial Attention in Vision and Action

1998
$125,000
Italy
Universita di Parma
Giacomo Rizzolatti
Mechanisms and Circuits for Space and Object Attention

1998
$146,000
Italy
Universite Laval
Francois Dore, Ph.D.
Interactions of the Perirhinal Cortex, Posterior Parietal Cortex, and Hippocampal Formation in Place Learning and Memory

1996
$30,000
Canada
University College London
Jon Driver
Multisensory Neglect in Perception and Spatial Working Memory

1999
$144,254
United Kingdom
University College London
Tim Shallice
Acquired and Developmental Disorders of Spelling: A Multi-Componential Model.

1995
$105,000
United Kingdom
University College London
Ehud Zahory


1991
United Kingdom
University College London
Ehud Zohary, Ph.D.
Towards the Neural Basis of Perceptual Decisions

1994
$40,286
United Kingdom
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Timothy J. Gawne
Neural Dynamics of Form Perception in Monkey

1996
$105,000
USA
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Rosalyn Weller
The Search for the Neurl Substrates of Visual Agnosia

1992
$60,000
USA
University of Amsterdam
Victor Lamme
Does Late Activity in Primary Visual Cortex Play a Role in Visual Awareness?

2000
$150,000
Netherlands
University of Amsterdam
Pieter Roelfsema
Neural Mechanisms Responsible for the Selection of Visual Information

1999
$150,000
Netherlands
University of Arizona Foundation
Merrill Garrett, Ph.D.
McDonnell-Pew Program for Cognitive Neuroscience 'Center' renewal support. UA #424490

1995
$1,022,510
USA
University of Buffalo, SUNY
David B. Bender
Thalamic Control of Attention in Temporal and Parietal Cortex

1994
$58,511
USA
University of California
Stephen G. Lisberger
Neural Basis of Sensorimotor Integration

1990
$30,000
USA
University of California - Berkeley
Clayton Curtis
Neural Effects of Interference with Working Memory

2000
$150,000
USA
University of California - Davis
Leah Krubitzer Elizabeth Disbrow
Higher Order Somatosensory Processing Networks: A Combined fMRI Study in Monkeys and Humans

1998
$148,267
USA
University of California - Davis
Tamara Y. Swaab
ERP Studies of Language Deficits in Aphasia

1997
$95,100
USA
University of California - Davis
Diane Swick
Contributions of Prefrontal Cortex and Hippocampus to Episodic Memory: ERP and Lesion Studies

1998
$149,525
USA
University of California - Davis, Center for Neurosc
Shih-Cheng Yen
Cortical Basis of Perceptual Salience

1998
$150,000
USA
University of California - Las Angeles
Dan Geschwind
Localization of a Gene Underlying Cerebral Lateralization in Humans

1995
$103,950
USA
University of California - Las Angeles
Alexandre Pouget
Spatial Tranformations for Saccadic Eye Movement

1994
$60,000
USA
University of California - Los Angeles
Susan Y. Bookheimer
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging During Language Activation: Effects of Facilitation and Inhibitory Priming on Regional

1994
$57,958
USA
University of California - Los Angeles
Rick H. Cai
Neural Correlates of Illusory Visual Localization, and Its Perceptual Consequences

1998
$145,461
USA
University of California - Los Angeles
Matthew Lieberman
The Role of the Basal Ganglia in Automatic Social Inference

1999
$150,000
USA
University of California - Los Angeles
Frank Tong
The Neural Basis of Binocular Rivalry and Visual Awareness in Human Visual Cortex

1999
$150,000
USA
University of California - San Francisco
Vincent P. Ferrera
Neural Basis for a Voluntary Action

1992
$125,262
USA
University of California - San Francisco
John F. Houde
The Role of Auditory Feedback in Speech Production

1998
$150,000
USA
University of California - San Francisco
David Poeppel
MEG Studies of Temporal and Spatial Coding in Speech Perception

1997
$105,000
USA
University of California - San Fransico
Todd W. Troyer
Imitation from Memory: An Associational Hypothesis for Vocal Learning.

1995
$105,000
USA
University of California, Davis
Michael Gazzaniga, Ph.D.
1993 summer workshop to prepare "The Cognitive Neurosciences, A Handbook for the Field."

1993
$87,500
USA
University of California, Davis
Michael Gazzaniga, Ph.D.
Renewal for McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience Center. Dartmouth College (89-25) was the original institution receiving the 1st 'Center' grant. When Dr. Gazziniga transferred to UCD, he started a Cognitive Neuro

1993
$480,000
USA
University of California, Davis
Michael Gazzaniga, Ph.D.
1994 McDonnell Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience.

1993
$175,000
USA
University of California, Davis
Michael Gazzaniga, Ph.D.
McDonnell-Pew Program for Cognitive Neuroscience Renewal support grant #2.

1995
$1,021,800
USA
University of California, Davis
Michael Gazzaniga, Ph.D.
Support for the 1995 Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience.

1995
$100,000
USA
University of California, San Diego
Terrence Sejnowski, Ph.D.
Support of a Center grant in the McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience at UCSD.

1989
$1,200,000
USA
University of California, San Diego
Terrence Sejnowski, Ph.D.
McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience Center Award - Renewal Support. UCSD #92-7070

1993
$880,000
USA
University of California, San Diego
Terrence Sejnowski, Ph.D.
McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience 'Center' Renewal (3rd) support.

1995
$1,286,400
USA
University of Cambridge
Horace Barlow
Cortical Maps and Image Segmentation

1991
$59,999
United Kingdom
University of Cambridge
Simon Baron-Cohen
Social Intelligence in the Autistic Brain: An fMRI Study

1999
$137,036
United Kingdom
University of Chicago
Jack D. Cowan
A Theory of How the Visual Cortex Works.

1996
$104,946
USA
University of Colorado
Clark Fagot
Rapid Behavioral Tuning to Task Demands: Computational Modeling of Empirical Data

1994
$90,000
USA
University of Colorado
Michael C. Mozer
Temporal Dynamics of Cognition in a Modular Cortical Architecture

1997
$105,000
USA
University of Delaware
James E. Hoffman
Extended Discourse and the N400 Component

1992
$59,179
USA
University of Delaware
Colin Phillips
The Neural Computation of Phonological Categories

1999
$135,434
USA
University of Fribourg
Wolfram Schultz
Nature of Reward Signals Carried by Primate Dopamine Neurons

1994
$56,250
Switzerland
University of Illinois
Gregory DiGirolamo
Cognitive and Neuroanatomical Interactions of Attention and Memory

1999
$132,600
USA
University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign
Emanuel Donchin, Ph.D.
Partial support for a conference on noninvasive methodologies in mind/brain science.

1989
$10,000
USA
University of Iowa
Antoine Bechara
Neural Basis of Executive Control

1992
$126,188
USA
University of Iowa
Steven J. Luck
Neural Systems Mediating Attentional Selection in Time.

1995
$69,340
USA
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Todd Preuss, Ph.D.
Taking the Measure of Diversity: Comparative Alternatives to the Model-Animal Paradigm in Cortical Neuroscience.

2000
$150,000
USA
University of Maryland
Carl R. Olson
Spatial Representation of the Body: Single Neuron Analysis in Somatosensory Cortex of Behaving Monkey

1990
$50,211
USA
University of Maryland-College Park
David Poeppel, Ph.D.
MEG Studies of Temporal and Spatial Coding in Speech Perception

1998
$83,429
USA
University of Massachusetts
Sasch E. Engelbrecht
Cerebro-Cerebellar Interactions in the Selection of Optimal Control Strategies

1996
$104,166
USA
University of Michigan
John Jonides
Imaginal Strategies in Inductive Reasoning: Evidence from PET

1990
$59,528
USA
University of Michigan
Patricia A. Reuter-Lorenz
A Neurocognitive Analysis of Multiple Form Perception

1992
$60,000
USA
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Lawrence Hirschfield, Ph.D.
Support for a conference, "Cultural Knowledge and Domain Specificity," to be held at the U. of Michigan in October, 1990.

1990
$8,000
USA
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Gary Olson, Ph.D.
Support for a Cognitive Neuroscience Symposium at the 1989 Cognitive Science Society Meeting.

1989
$5,300
USA
University of Minnesota
Charles Nelson, Ph.D.
To Advance Brain and Behavioral Research in Child Development

1998
$468,880
USA
University of Missouri
Monica Fabiani
Brain Correlates of False Memory: Electrophysiological and Optical Imaging Studies

1997
$104,903
USA
University of Missouri, Columbia
Jonathan King
The Temporal Dynamics of Language Processing

1998
$134,000
USA
University of Nottingham
Amanda Parker
Neuroanatomical Basis and Role of the Novelty Detection Preceding Memory Formation in Non-Human Primates

1999
$138,998
United Kingdom
University of Oregon
Michael Anderson
Inhibitory Control Processes and Frontal Lobe Function

1994
$58,448
USA
University of Oregon
Dare A. Baldwin
PET Activation Studies Comparing Aphasic and Normal Subjects: Two Speech Tasks Widely Used in Surgical Mapping.

1995
$104,704
USA
University of Oregon
Michael I. Posner


1995
$720,000
USA
University of Oregon
Margaret E. Sereno
Network Modeling and Psychophysical Approaches to Motion and Depth Perception

1997
$105,000
USA
University of Oxford
Colin Blakemore, Ph.D.
Support of a Center grant in the McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience headed by Dr. Colin Blakemore.

1989
$1,200,000
United Kingdom
University of Oxford
Colin Blakemore, Ph.D.
Renewal for McDonnell-Pew Cognitive Neuroscience Center

1993
$880,000
United Kingdom
University of Oxford
Colin Blakemore, Ph.D.
McDonnell-Pew Program for Cognitive Neuroscience Center Renewal Support

1995
$1,283,760
USA
University of Oxford
Donald Bundy, Ph.D.
International Health and Cognition Programme (Phases I and II), Partnership for Child Development (PCD).

1994
$1,254,640
United Kingdom
University of Oxford
Anne Nobre
Selective Processing of Visual Features: Attention Inside Space and Objects

1999
$149,075
United Kingdom
University of Oxford
Andrew Parker, Ph.D.
Support to continue the development of European Cognitive Neuroscience

1998
$757,649
United Kingdom
University of Pennsylvania
Mark D'Esposito
Cognitive Sudies and Functional Neuroimaging in Working Memory

1994
$60,000
USA
University of Pennsylvania
Martha Farah
Modularity in the Visual Recognition System: Face Selective Processing in Monkey and Humans

1990
$60,000
USA
University of Pennsylvania
Charan Ranganath
Prefrontal Contributions in Memory in the Young and Old

1999
$150,000
USA
University of Pennsylvania
Sharon L. Thompson-Schill
Cognitive Neuropsychological Models of Category Specificity

1996
$105,000
USA
University of Pittsburgh
Carol L. Colby
Cortical Representation of Space in Monkeys and Humans

1997
$105,000
USA
University of Pittsburgh
Kae Nakamura
Role of Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Behavioral Control

2000
$150,000
USA
University of Pittsburgh
Walter Schneider
Brain Activations and Learning to Read: An fMRI Investigation

1997
$105,000
USA
University of Pittsburgh
David Servan-Schreiber
Towards a Model of Processing in the Fear Response Network

1994
$60,000
USA
University of Rochester
Daphne Bavelier
Reorganization of Visual Functions in Congenitally Deaf Adults

1998
$149,910
USA
University of Rochester
Krystel Huxlin
Mechanisms of Perceptual Recovery After Visual Cortical Lesions

2000
$134,493
USA
University of Rochester
Robert A. Jacobs


1996
USA
University of Rochester
Tatianna Pasternak
Cortical Substrates of Short-Term Memory for Visual Motion Signals

1993
$59,982
USA
University of Rochester
Alexandre Pouget
Multisensory Spatial Representations for Motor Coordination

1999
$150,000
USA
University of Rochester
Ira Shoulson, Ph.D.
To develop a strategic plan based on scientific methods, intradisciplinary research & indentification of relevant, measurable outcomes for the Pew-McDonnell "Science of Childhood Potential"

1993
$47,442
USA
University of Rochester
Gregory Zelinski
A Neurocomputational Model of Saccade Programming During Visual Search

1992
$1,993
USA
University of Rochester Medical Center
William H. Merigan
Modelling Shape Recognition in Macaque Cortex

1996
$99,826
USA
University of Sheffield
N. M. Hunkin
Investigation of Medial Temporal Lobe Activation During Associative Memory Encoding Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imagi

1997
$38,000
United Kingdom
University of Southern California
W. Jake Jacobs
Stress, Amygdala, Hippocampus, and Dissociated Emotional Memory.

1996
$102,860
USA
University of Southern California
Diana R. Van Lancker


1995
USA
University of Southwestern Louisiana
Todd M. Preuss
Evolutionary Specializations of Human Cerebral Cortex

1998
$140,709
USA
University of St. Andrews
A. D. Milner
Exploration of a Neuropsychological Model of Cortical Visual Processing

1993
$37,250
Scotland
University of Texas Health Science Center
Peter Fox, Ph.D.
Support for airfare for international participants to attend "BrainMap: Workshop II"

1993
$15,000
USA
University of Texas Health Science Center
Mario Liotto
Functional Brain Organization in Visual Neglect Patients: A Behavioral/Electrophysiological/Neuroatomical Study

1994
$60,000
USA
University of Texas Health Science Center
Anne Sereno, Ph.D.
The Neurophysiology of Short-Term Memory

1999
$105,000
USA
University of Verona
Leonardo Chelazzi
Feature-Level Attention Mechanisms in the Brain of Humans and Monkeys

1999
$134,300
Italy
University of Wales
Gordon D. A. Brown
A Connectionist Model of Basal Ganglia Function.

1991
$57,939
United Kingdom
University of Washington
George A. Ojemann
Neuronal Activity Related to Human Memory

1996
$105,000
USA
University of Western Ontario
Jody C. Culham
Human Neural Substrates of Visually-Guided Grasping

1998
$149,543
Canada
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Fred J. Helmstetter
Functional Imaging of Learning in the Human Brain

1997
$105,000
USA
Vanderbilt University
Todd M. Preuss
Evolutionary Specialization of Primate Motor Association Cortex

1990
$95,236
USA
Vanderbilt University
Jeffrey D. Schall
Neural Correlates of Directed Visual Attention in Visuomotor Cortex of Macaque Monkey

1990
$60,000
USA
Wake Forest University
Barry E. Stein
The Neural and Behavioral Principles of Multisensory Integration

1992
$46,252
USA
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Daeyeol Lee
Neural Mechanisms of Binding and Short-term Memory Capacity

1999
$124,664
USA
Washington University in St. Louis
William Betchel, Ph.D.
Renewal of the Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology (PNP) Program

1996
$880,000
USA
Washington University in St. Louis
Randy Buckner, Ph.D.
Cognitive Neuroscience of Human Memory

1999
$300,000
USA
Washington University in St. Louis
Roger Gibson, Ph.D.
Support to initiate the program Philosophy, Neuroscience, and Psychology (PNP).

1993
$1,320,000
USA
Washington University in St. Louis
Kathleen McDermott
Cognitive Processing in Inferior Frontal Gyrus: Beyond the Verbal/Nonverbal Heuristic

1999
$150,000
USA
Washington University School of Medicine
Maurizio Corbetta, Ph.D.
Investigations of Human Cognition

2000
$300,000
USA
Washington University School of Medicine
Anthony Dickinson
Are Plans for Movement Organized in Parietal Cortex According to the Body Part ot be Moved, or According to the Task to be Pe

2000
$150,000
USA
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Michael Posner, Ph.D.
To support six study panels in developmental cognitive neuroscience.

1998
$1,221,000
USA
Weizmann Institute of Science
Tamar Flash
Mechanisms of Sensorimotor Control of Goal-Directed Arm Movements

1994
$59,100
USA
Weizmann Institute of Science
Rafael Malach
Invariant Representation of Objects in the Human Visual System: Combining Computational Modeling and Brain Mapping

1999
$150,000
Israel
Yale University
John C. Gore
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Working Memory

1994
$59,320
USA
Yale University
Elizbeth A. Phelps
The Role of the Human Amygdala in Emotional Memory and Evaluation

1997
$104,778
USA
Yale University
Lizabeth M. Romanski
The Prefrontal Cortex and Working Memory in the Auditory Domain

1993
$90,000
USA
Yale University
Seamas Scalaidhe
Neurophysiology of Memory in Prefrontal Cortex: Single Neuron Recording and Event Related Potentials

1991
$116,516
USA
Yale University School of Medicine
Christos Constantinidis
The Cortical Circuitry that Mediates Working Memory

2000
$146,310
USA
Yale University School of Medicine
Ioan Opris
Neural Correlates of Decision Mechanism in Prefrontal Cortex

2000
$147,660
USA
York University
Vinod Goel
Imaging the Reasoning Brain

2000
$123,776
Canada
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