KIBM Innovative Research Awards 2007-2008

Investigators Affiliation Précis Award
John Wixted,
Peter Wais
Psychology, UCSD A Neuroimaging Investigation of the Component Processes of Recognition Memory $27,900
Janet Wiles,
Fred Gage,
Andrea Chiba
The University of Queensland, The Salk Institute, Cognitive Science, UCSD

Exploring the Behavioral Consequences of Neurogenesis in Dentate Gyrus

$9,006
Martin Paulus,
Marc Wittmann
Psychiatry, UCSD Disruption of the Balance Between Self-Control and Impulsivity in Stimulant Users: How Processing Time in the Brain Affects Decision Making $30,000
Harvey J. Karten, Ethan Bier
Neurosciences, Cell and Developmental Biology, UCSD Molecular Conservation in the Hippocampus of Vertebrates $30,000
Katie Travis,
Jeff Elman,
Eric Halgren,
Anders Dale,
Tim Brown, Mingxiong Huang, Elizabeth Redcay, Matthew Leonard
Neurosciences, Cognitive Sciences, Radiology, Psychiatry, UCSD Joint Attention and the Neural Correlates of Word Learning in Human Infants $30,000
Timothy Gentner, Henry Abarbanel
Psychology, Physics, UCSD, The Scripps Research Institute From Sounds to Songs: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Sensorimotor Transformations in Vocal Communication $30,000
Rafael Nunez,
Ruey-Song Huang, Martin Sereno
Cognitive Science, The Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, UCSD Neural Basis of Metaphorical Abstraction: A Functional Magnetic Resonancestudy of Ego-Reference-Point Spatial Construals of Time $33,300
Robert E. Clark, Larry R. Squire
UCSD and VAMCSD A New Approach to Exploring Hippocampal Function. Evaluating Encoding, Storage and Retrieval Using Reversible Lesions $29,823
Philip Low, Terrence J. Sejnowski,
Fred H. Gage
The Salk Institute, Neuroscience, Institute for Neural Computation, UCSD Identifying Structural Neural Correlates during Sleep Memory Consolidation $30,000
Karen Dobkins, Vivian Ciaramitaro Psychology, UCSD A Study of Normal Infants and Infants at Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) $30,000
James Marshel,
Ed Callaway,
David Lyon,
Ian Wickersham
Neurosciences, UCSD, The Salk Institute
Relating Specific Neuronal Network Structure and Function to Perceptual Experience In Vivo $30,000
Anirvan Ghosh, Massimo Scanziani Biological Sciences, UCSD Exploring the Neural Basis of Visual Perception $30,000