KIBM Innovative Research Awards 2008-2009
UCSD’s Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind announces the granting of annual awards to 10 projects.
Covering such topics as speculation on the evolution of consciousness, inquiries into word learning and gamma band brain oscillation in human infants and brain mechanisms in multisensory perception learning, the awarded projects do indeed represent a wide swath of innovative research. Altogether, more than 40 applications were received, with the winning teams comprising some 40 dedicated researchers, as shown below.
| Investigators |
Affiliation |
Title |
Award |
| Fred H. Gage |
The Salk Institute |
Exploring the Function of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis: A Neuronal Activity Analysis |
$30,000 |
| Wei Deng |
The Salk Institute |
| Michael Saxe |
The Salk Institute |
| James B. Aimone |
The Salk Institute |
| Mark Mayford |
Scripps Research Institute |
|
| Matthew Leonard |
Cognitive Science, UCSD |
The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Bilingual Lexical Representation |
$30,000 |
| Jeffrey Elman |
Cognitive Science, UCSD |
| Eric Halgren |
Radiology, UCSD |
| Timothy Brown |
Psychiatry, UCSD |
| Katherine Travis |
Neurosciences, UCSD |
| Rachel Mayberry |
Linguistics, UCSD |
|
| Stephani Otte |
Neuroscience, UCSD |
Functional Consequences of the Attentional Enhancement of Gamma Oscillatory Activity |
$30,000 |
| Andrea Hasenstaub |
The Salk Institute |
| Takuma Mori |
The Salk Institute |
| Ed Callaway |
The Salk Institute |
| Emily Anderson |
The Salk Institute |
| John Reynolds |
The Salk Institute |
|
| Tim Brown |
Psychiatry, UCSD |
Developmental Changes in the Cortical Dynamics of Semantic Processing |
$30,000 |
| Eric Halgren |
Radiology, UCSD |
| Doris Trauner |
Neurosciences, UCSD |
| Anders Dale |
Neurosciences, UCSD |
|
| Katherine Travis |
Neurosciences, UCSD |
Joint Attention and the Neural Correlates of Word Learning in Human Infants |
$30,000 |
| Jeffrey Elman |
Cognitive Science, UCSD |
| Timothy Brown |
Psychiatry, UCSD |
| Anders Dale |
Radiology, UCSD |
| Eric Halgren |
Radiology, UCSD |
| Mingxiong Huang |
Radiology, UCSD |
| Megan Curran |
Cognitive Science, UCSD |
|
| Pamela Reinagel |
Biology, UCSD |
Towards a Rat Model of Blindsight |
$30,000 |
|
| James Marshel |
Neurosciences, UCSD |
Relating Specific Neuronal Network Structure and Function to Perceptual Experience in vivo |
$30,000 |
| Ed Callaway |
The Salk Institute |
| Takuma Mori |
The Salk Institute |
| Kristina Nielsen |
The Salk Institute |
|
| Gene R. Stoner |
The Salk Institute |
Brain Mechanisms of Multisensory Perceptual Learning |
$30,000 |
| Ladan Shams |
UCLA |
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| Tom Albright |
The Salk Institute |
Semantic Categorization in the Ventral Stream: Investigating the 'Tool' Category with fMRI and EEG in Awake Non-human Primates |
$30,000 |
| Ricardo Gil-da-Costa |
The Salk Institute |
| Jeng-Ren Duann |
Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience of INC, UCSD |
| Tzyy-Ping Jung |
Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience of INC, UCSD |
|
| P. S. Churchland |
Philosophy, UCSD |
The Evolutionary Forerunners of Consciousness |
$39,450 |
| Ralph Greenspan |
KIBM, UCSD |
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Awards made possible by support from The Kavli Foundation |
