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Innovative Research Grants (IRG) Award Recipients

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2026-2027

Axonal recordings in humans [$50,000]
Sierra Wilson, Neurosciences
Tara Porter, Electrical Computer Engineering
Eric Halgren, Professor, Radiology & Neuroscience
Shadi Dayeh, Professor,  Electrical Engineering
Sharona Ben-Haim, Neurosurgery
Arjun Khanna, Neurosurgery

Empathy beyond the brain: Microbiome mechanisms of social pain [$50,000]
Monique Smith, Neurobiology and Neurosciences
Guillaume Urtecho, School of Medicine

From mutation to movement: Multiscale mapping of circuit dysfunction in Huntington’s Disease [50,000]
Sonja Blumenstock, Neurosciences
Sonia Vazquez Sanchez, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Olatz Arnold Garcia,  Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Carlos Chillon Marinas, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Takaki Komiyama, Neurosciences

How social context shapes the reward structure of exploration [$50,000]
Sergei Gepshtein, Cognitive Science
Tatyana Sharpee, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Molecular and behavioral basis of social gaze development in marmosets [$50,000]
Cory Miller, Psychology
Dhananjay Bambah-Mukku, Psychology

Multiplexed imaging of voltage dynamics and neuromodulator release in vivo [$50,000]
Adam Bowman, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Kenta Asahina, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Orbitofrontal encoding of social rank information during ethologically relevant social competition [$50,000]
Christian Cazares, Cognitive Science
Brad Voytek, Cognitive Science
Edward Callaway, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Redefining sympathetic ganglia as neuroimmune controllers for body physiology [$50,000]
Vineet Augustine, Neurobiology
John T. Chang, School of Medicine

2025-2026

Investigating the neurobiology of visual prey pursuit using closed-loop virtual reality [$50,000]
Matthew Lovett-Barron, Neurobiology
Katie Martin, Neurobiology
Marcus Benna, Neurobiology

The missing link between brain lymphatics, sleep, learning, memory, and dementia [$50,000]
Matthew Shtrahman, Neurosciences
Shiri Gur-Cohen, School of Medicine

Hippocampus metabolism in memory and learning [$50,000]
Samuel Kerk, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Fred Gage, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Sarah Parylak, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Christian Metallo, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Are neural attractor dynamics a suitable substrate for organizing “general knowledge”? [$50,000]
Johnatan Aljadeff, Neurobiology
Gal Mishne, UCSD Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute
Stefan Leutgeb, Neurobiology

A universal code for meaning in biological and artificial neural networks [$50,000]
Meenakshi Khosla, Cognitive Science
Lily Weng, UCSD Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute and Computer Science and Engineering
Sean Trott, Cognitive Science
Pamela Riviere, Cognitive Science
Shreya Saha, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Defining the brain interoceptive response to organ injury-induced stress [$50,000]
Yujuan Su, Pediatrics
Xin Sun, Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology
Laura Crotty Alexander, School of Medicine
Axel Nimmerjahn, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Targeting tools to astrocyte-synapse junctions to probe their roles in circuits and behavior [$50,000]
Justin Trotter, Neurosciences and Neurobiology
Byungkook Lim, Neurobiology

Multi-modal activity imaging in traumatic brain injury [$50,000]
Jordan Nichols, Bioengineering
Ester Kwon, Bioengineering
Zeinab Jahed, Nanoengineering
Akash Canjels, Bioengineering
Anum Tahir, Nanoengineering

2024-2025

Reinterpreting Heart Attacks: Myocardial Infarction as a Neuroimmune Stress Disorder [$50,000]
Vineet Augustine, Neurobiology
Monique Smith, Neurobiology
Kevin R. King, Bioengineering

The Role of Aged Astrocytes in the Regulation of Cerebellar Purkinje Cell Function [$50,000]
Nicola Allen, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Lara Labarta-Bajo, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Axel Nimmerjahn, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Erin Carey, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Chemogenetic dissection of NMDA receptor subunit contributions to the antidepressant-like actions of ketamine [$50,000]
Matthew Banghart, Neurobiology
Byungkook Lim, Neurobiology

Genetic transformation of the sweat bees for studying the neural origin of sociality [$50,000]
Kenta Asahina, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Michael Perry, Biological Sciences

Wiring the Multilingual Mind: Neural Bases of Speech Category Learning [$50,000]
Tim Gentner, Psychology
Marc Garellek, Linguistics
Mingxiong Huang, Radiology and Electrical and Computer Engineering
Benjamin Lang, Linguistics
Will Styler, Linguistics

Bending the Mind by Gut Bacteria: Exploring Commensal Microbiota's Role in Feeding Regulation [$50,000]
Jing Wang, Neurobiology
Byungkook Lim, Neurobiology

mGlu4 receptors heterodimers effects on dendritic spines during anhedonia [$50,000]
Francesco Fazio, Psychiatry
Takaki Komiyama, Neurobiology
Douglas Sheffler, Sanford Burnham Prebys

Integrating Nanotechnology for Multi-Site Neuronal Recordings [$50,000]
Brenda Bloodgood, Neurobiology
Zeinab Jahed, NanoEngineering
Einollah Sarikhani, NanoEngineering
Keivan Rahmani, NanoEngineering
Diego Alvarez, Neurobiology

2023-2024

Epigenomic dynamics of neurotransmitter co-expression and switching in single neurons [$50,000]
Eran Mukamel, Cognitive Science
Nicholas Spitzer, Neurobiology
Dhananjay Bambah-Mukku, Psychology
Marta Pratelli, Neurobiology
Dominic Burrows, Cognitive Science
Allen Wang, UCSD Center for Epigenomics

The mind of a moving body: perception of self-motion in jumping marmoset monkeys [$50,000]
Nicholas Dotson, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
John Reynolds, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Julio Martinez-Trujillo, Western University Physiology and Pharmacology, and Robarts Research Institute
Talmo Pereira, Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Spatiotemporal Multiplexed Miniscopes at kHz speeds [$50,000]
Nicholas Antipa, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Gal Mishne, UCSD Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute

Investigating the multisensory ontogeny of social behavior [$50,000]
Dhananjay Bambah-Mukku, Psychology
Cory Root, Neurobiology

The shape of breathing: respiration asymmetries causally shape hippocampal oscillation waveform [$40,000]
Eena Kosik, Cognitive Science
Bradley Voytek, Cognitive Science
Sharona Ben-Haim, Neurological Surgery
Irene Rembado, Allen Institute for Brain Science

Functional development of motor neuron wiring in early life [$50,000]
Stacey Glasgow, Neurobiology
Matthew Lovett-Barron, Neurobiology

Mechanisms and outcomes of selective vulnerability of dopamine neurons in Parkinson’s disease [$50,000]
Stefan Leutgeb, Neurobiology
Gulcin Pekkurnaz, Neurobiology
Byungkook Lim, Neurobiology
Padmini Rangamani, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

2022-2023

You are here: A cross-species approach to defining the coordination of first-person and top-down views of the environment [$50,000]
Ryan Place, Cognitive Science
Douglas Nitz, Cognitive Science
Federico Rossano, Cognitive Science

What are thoughts made of? Dusting neural fingerprints of internal representations using phenomenology and information-based neuroimaging [$50,000]
Ana Chkhaidze, Cognitive Science
Anastasia Kiyonaga, Cognitive Science
Seana Coulson, Cognitive Science
Lera Boroditsky, Cognitive Science

How the size and shape of sensory dendrites influence chemosensory function [$50,000]
Chih-Ying Su, Neurobiology
Johnatan Aljadeff, Neurobiology

Assessing the balance between centralized and peripheral information processing: Insights from invertebrate cephalopods [$50,000]
Dimitri Deheyn, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Johnatan Aljadeff, Neurobiology

Dynamic Decision-Making in Freely Moving Marmosets [$50,000]
Christina Gremel, Psychology
Cory Miller, Psychology

Discriminating behavioral algorithms with neural data via a dynamical consistency analysis [$50,000]
Marcelo G. Mattar, Cognitive Science
Marcus K. Benna, Neurobiology
Ji-An Li, Neurosciences Graduate Program

Personalized “avatars” for the brain: Towards a genetically and developmentally informed brain atlas [$50,000]
Diana Smith, Neurosciences Graduate Program
Terry L. Jernigan, Cognitive Science, Psychiatry and Radiology
Anders M. Dale, Radiology, Neurosciences, and Psychiatry
Jingjing Zou, Family Medicine and Public Health
Kyung (Kay) Rhee, Clinical Pediatrics

2021-2022

Recruitment of GABAergic neurons to a dopaminergic phenotype brings new hopes for neurotransmitter replacement in Parkinson’s disease [$50,000]
Davide Dulcis, Psychiatry
Martina Ulivieri, Psychiatry
Giordano Lippi, Scripps Research Neuroscience

The effect of dietary withdrawal on Histone Dopaminylation in the brain [$50,000]
Olivia Osborn, School of Medicine
Francesca Telese, School of Medicine

Perturbations to Synaptic Energy Efficiency During Age-Related Cognitive Decline in the Marmoset [$50,000]
Christopher T. Lee, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
John Reynolds, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Courtney Glavis-Bloom, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Casey Vanderlip, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Uri Manor, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Sammy Weiser Novak, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Padmini Rangamani, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Miriam K. Bell, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Mayte Bonilla-Quintana, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Temporal neuronal population dynamics underlying learned, sequential, natural communication [$50,000]
Ezequiel M. Arneodo, Psychology
Pablo Tostado Marcos, Bioengineering
Tim Gentner, Psychology
Vikash Gilja, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Imaging and quantifying neuromodulatory signal flow in behaving animals [$50,000]
Matthew Lovett-Barron, Neurobiology
Mikio Aoi, Neurobiology and Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute

Linking Individual Differences to the Brain’s Temporal Dynamics Fingerprint [$50,000]
Weiqi Zhao, Cognitive Science
Zhuowen Tu, Cognitive Science and Computer Science and Engineering
Deanna Greene, Cognitive Science
Anders Dale, Neurosciences, Radiology, and Cognitive Science

Probing the black box in human cognition and machine learning: emergence of specialized processing of speech and music in brains and ResNets [$50,000]
Tzu-Han Zoe Cheng, Cognitive Science
Kuan-Lin Chen, Electrical Computing and Engineering
John R. Iversen, UCSD Institute for Neural Computation
Timothy T. Brown, Neurosciences

Structural plasticity and neurogenesis during continual learning in the olfactory bulb [$50,000]
Marcus K. Benna, Neurobiology
Takaki Komiyama, Neurobiology and Neurosciences
Bin Yu, UCSD Institute for Neural Computation

Does working memory require strong inhibitory signaling? [$50,000]
Dhruv Grover, UCSD Kavli Institute of Brain and Mind
Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute and Neurobiology
Ralph Greenspan, Neurobiology

2020-2021

From changes in neurotransmitter identity to behavior: shedding light on a missing link in neuroplasticity [$50,000]
Marta Pratelli, Neurobiology
Donghyung Lee, Neurobiology

From worms to mice: protecting neuronal function under stress [$50,000]
Yue Sun, Biological Sciences
Erin Ritchie, Biomedical Sciences
Yishi Jin, Neurobiology
Stefano Brigidi, Neurobiology
Brenda Bloodgood, Neurobiology
Binhai Zheng, Neurosciences

Auditory deviance detection in single cells, local field potentials, and extracranial EEG [$50,000]
Teryn Johnson, Cognitive Science
Pamela Riviere, Cognitive Science
Seana Coulson, Cognitive Science
Lara Rangel, Cognitive Science

Probing the Gut-Brain Axis in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder through connecting Brain Structure, Microbiome and Neuroactive Molecules [$50,000]
Gajender Aleti, Psychiatry
Suzi Hong, Psychiatry and Family Medicine & Public Health
David Rosenberg, Wayne State University
Pieter C. Dorrestein, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Rob Knight, Pediatrics
Jordan N Kohn, Psychiatry
Emily Troyer, Psychiatry
Pedro Belda-Ferre, Pediatrics

Quantifying gut instincts: combining electrical signals of the gut and brain to improve computational models of cognition and decision making [$50,000]
Pragathi Priyadharsini Balasubramani, Psychiatry
Todd Coleman, Bioengineering
Jyoti Mishra, Psychiatry

Investigating the Role of Rhythmic Cortical Activity in Processing of Hierarchically Organized Linguistic and Non-linguistic Sequences in Humans and Rats [$50,000]
Arturs Semenuks, Cognitive Science
Pamela Riviere, Cognitive Science
Teryn Johnson, Cognitive Science
Seana Coulson, Cognitive Science
Lara Rangel, Cognitive Science

Characterization of the activity and roles of ND-linked chromatin regulators [$50,000]
Alon Goren, School of Medicine
Christopher Benner, School of Medicine

Bifurcate top-down circuits for the control of breathing [$50,000]
Jinho Jhang, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Shijia Liu, Biological Sciences
Byungkook Lim, Neurobiology

Predicting infection outcome using nongenetic differences in brain structure [$50,000]
Robert M. Gallant, Biological Sciences
Janelle S. Ayres, Salk Institute
Benjamin S. McKenna, Psychiatry
Uri Manor, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences

Small changes in the genome, big leaps in brain connectivity for humankind: Contributions of uniquely human traits to psychiatric disorders [$50,000]
Carolina Makowski, Radiology
Chi-Hua Chen, Radiology
Anders Dale, Radiology, Neurosciences, and Psychiatry
Chun Chieh Fan, UCSD Center for Human Development
Kun Zhang, Bioengineering
Jingjing Zou, Family Medicine & Public Health

2019-2020

Cognitive control of word retrieval in speech production through cortical layers [$50,000]
Eric Halgren, Neuroscience
Sharona Ben-Haim, Neurosurgery
Jerry Shih, Neuroscience
Stephanie Ries, SDSU School of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

Directing routes: How neurons in superficial subiculum may contribute to spatial concept formation [$50,000]
Ryan J. Place, Cognitive Science
Douglas Nitz, Cognitive Science
David Kleinfeld, Physics

CaMPARI in C. elegans: monitoring temporal information flow [$50,000]
Amy Pribadi, Biology
Sreekanth H. Chalasani, Salk Institute
Eric R. Schreiter, HHMI Janelia Research Campus

Downloading a Brain into a Robot [$50,000]
Gerald Pao, Salk Institute
George Sugihara, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Chen Min Yeh, Salk Institute
Hiroaki Natsukawa, Kyoto University

Genetic influences on human cortical variation [$50,000]
Kari L. Hanson, Institute for Neural Computation
Burke Q. Rosen, Neuroscience Graduate Program
Chun Chieh Fan, Center for Human Development
Nimish Pratha, Linguistics
Eric Halgren, Radiology and Neurosciences
Katerina Semendeferi, Anthropology

Constructing a brain-wide neuromodulatory map underlying complex social behaviors [$50,000]
Dhruv Grover, Kavli Institute of Brain and Mind
Ralph J. Greenspan, Neurobiology and Cognitive Science
Takeo Katsuki, Kavli institute of Brain and Mind
Jean-Francois Ferveur, University of Burgundy

Behavioral and physiological co-dynamics of rodent social interactions [$50,000]
Andrea A. Chiba, Cognitive Science
Laleh K. Quinn, Cognitive Science
Tajana Rosing, CSE and Electrical and Computer Engineering

Assessing the neural correlate for reinforcement learning using high-speed tracking and optogenetic manipulation of brain activity in freely flying Drosophila [$50,000]
Nick Gravish, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Dhruv Grover, Kavli Institute of Brain and Mind

Imputing Molecular Endophenotypes from Genome Wide Association Data to Understand Biological Pathways Leading to Psychiatric Disorders [$50,000]
Robert Loughnan, Cognitive Science
Terry L. Jernigan, Cognitive Science, Psychiatry, and Radiology
Anders M. Dale, Radiology, Neurosciences, and Psychiatry
Trey Ideker, School of Medicine and Bioengineering
Eran Mukamel, Cognitive Science

Adaptive Laser Power Transfer for Ecologically Situated Neuroscience in Freely Behaving Animals [$50,000]
Marcelo Aguilar-Rivera, Bioengineering
Phillip Kyriakakis, Bioengineering
Kuo-Fen Lee, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Todd Coleman, Bioengineering

2018-2019

Bridging the brain-mind gap in schizophrenia with iPSC-derived model systems [$50,000]
Anna Devor, Neurosciences and Radiology
Alysson R. Muotri, Pediatrics and Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Anders M. Dale, Neurosciences and Radiology

Multifunctional nanoprobes for optical, electrical and chemical interrogation of brain circuits [$50,000]
Donald Sirbuly, NanoEngineering
Axel Nimmerjahn, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences

Impact of early life trauma on vulnerability to obesity: Dissecting the action of neuropeptide receptors in brain circuits [$50,000]
Sora Shin, Biological Sciences
Sung Han, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences

Novelty detection in the brain: A computer science perspective [$50,000]
Saket Navlakha, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Charles F. Stevens, UCSD Kavli Institute of Brain and Mind and Salk Institute of Biological Sciences

Deconstructing the energy production rules for neuronal network oscillations and cognitive function [$50,000]
Silvia Viana da Silva, Biological Sciences
Gulcin Pekkurnaz, Biological Sciences
Stefan Leutgeb, Biological Sciences
Byungkook Lim, Biological Sciences

Dissecting the neural control of fine movements: Novel high-density arrays for spinal recording and behavioral quantification [$50,000]
Eiman Azim, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences and UCSD Biological Sciences
Shadi Dayeh, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Brain Dynamics During Cooperative Learning By Children and Adults [$50,000]
Julia Anna Adrian, Cognitive Science
Gedeon O. Deák, Cognitive Science
Tzyy-Ping Jung, Bioengineering
Siddharth Siddharth, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Virginia de Sa, Cognitive Science

Unraveling the temporal envelope of behavior: spectral coding in basal ganglia outflow [$50,000]
Xin Jin, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Jason Klug,  Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
David Peterson, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Craig Evinger, Stony Brook University

Rhythmic coordination: A Mechanism for Efficient Processing of Information from Multiple Sources [$50,000]
Lara Rangel, Cognitive Science
Todd Coleman, Bioengineering
Pamela Riviere, Cognitive Science
Gabriel Schamberg, Bioengineering
Jerry Scott, Cognitive Science

The coding capacity of distributed circuits [$50,000]
Shyam Srinivasan, UCSD Kavli Institute of Brain and Mind
Gerald Pao, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Climate Atmospheric Sciences and Physical Oceanography, and Salk Institute of Biological Sciences

Keeping it “in mind”: a role for de novo methylation in working memory [$50,000]
M. Margarita Behrens, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences and Psychiatry
Antonio Pinto-Duarte, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Susan Powell, Psychiatry

Bridging the Brain-Mind Gap Through SCATS - a Novel Approach to Define Transcriptome Dynamics in Single Cells [$50,000]
Miles Wilkinson, Ob/Gyn Reproductive Sciences
Kun Zhang, Bioengineering
Dana Burow, Reproductive Medicine

2017-2018

Development of Nanobody-Evolved Optical Neuropeptide Sensors (NEONS) [$50,000]
Matthew Banghart, Neurobiology
Geoffrey Chang, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacology

Neuro-Clear: Transparent Graphene Arrays for Multimodal Probing of Brain Circuits [$50,000]
Duygu Kuzum, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Takaki Komiyama, Neurobiology and Neurosciences

Deciphering the olfactory map with a novel optogenetic tool [$50,000]
Chih-Ying Su, Neurobiology
Dhruv Grover, UCSD Kavli Institute of Brain and Mind
Ralph Greenspan, Neurobiology and Cognitive Science

Thinking Vision: Causal Study of Figure-Ground Segregation as Probabilistic Inference Using Optogenetics [$50,000]
Tom P. Franken, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
John H. Reynolds, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Edward M. Callaway, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Ralf M. Haefner, University of Rochester
Pieter R. Roelfsema, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience

Bridging Structure and Function with Neural Oscillations in iPSC-derived Cortical Organoids [$50,000]
Bradley Voytek, Cognitive Science
Alysson Muotri, Pediatrics and Cellular & Molecular Medicine
Richard Gao, Cognitive Science
Tunmise Olayinka, Neurosciences Graduate Program

Testing the Vocal-Vagal Hypothesis [$45,000]
Pamela Reinagel, Neurobiology
Timothy Gentner, Psychology and Neurobiology
Eric Bakovic, Linguistics
Anna Mai, Linguistics
Linda Hill, Family Medicine & Public Health

Using machine learning to identify stress-related neural networks [$45,000]
Chen-Min Yeh, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Gerald Pao, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Terrence  Sejnowski, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Sreekanth Chalasani, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Alex Groisman, Physics

A highly sensitive red light activated gene switch for optically guided transsynaptic viral tracers [$50,000]
Phillip Kyriakakis, Bioengineering
Todd Coleman, Bioengineering
Daniel Gibbs, Neurosciences
Teresa Grider, Neurosciences

Does better discrimination reduce learning latency? [$50,000]
Shyam Srinivasan, UCSD Kavli Institute of Brain and Mind
Dhruv Grover, UCSD Kavli Institute of Brain and Mind
Massimo Vergassola, Physics

Investigating the roots of agency in the fly brain [$50,000]
Sophie Aimon, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Ralph Greenspan, Neurobiology and Cognitive Science
Alex Lang, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences

2016-2017

Decoding sensorymotor neural signals for vocal communication [$50,000]
Ezequiel Arneodo, UCSD BioCircuits Institute
Tim Gentner, Psychology
Vikash Gilja, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Gert Cauwenberghs, Bioengineering

How fly olfactory receptor neurons respond to odor mixtures [$50,000]
Charles F. Stevens, Kavli Institute of Brain and Mind, Salk Institute
Chih-Ying Su, Biological Sciences

A window into the mind: Monitoring whole-brain activity with single cell resolution in freely behaving fruit flies [$50,000]
Dhruv Grover, UCSD Kavli Institute of Brain and Mind
Takeo Katsuki, UCSD Kavli Institute of Brain and Mind
Ralph J. Greenspan, Neurobiology and Cognitive Science
Pamela Cosman, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Zhaowei Liu, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Systems- and Synaptic-Level Overcoupling in Major Depressive Disorder [$50,000]
Tam Tran, Neurosciences
Sage Aronson, Neurosciences
Bradley Voytek, Cognitive Science
Roberto Malinow, Neurobiology and Neurosciences

Amplifying Cognitive Sets: A Chemogenetic Approach to Strengthening Ensemble Firing Patterns of the Basal Forebrain [$50,000]
Douglas A. Nitz, Cognitive Science
James Conner, Neurobiology
Alyssa Lundgren, Cognitive Science
Andrew Alexander, Cognitive Science

Structural Neuroplasticity of Identified Microcircuits Investigated by Novel EM Probe Technology [$50,000]
Daniela Boassa, NCMIR, CRBS
Davide Dulcis, Psychiatry
Benedetto Romoli, Psychiatry

Exploring the role of network pruning in cellular differentiation [$50,000]
Saket Navlakha, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Gerald Pao, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Manching Ku, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences

Developing Deep In-Vivo Two-Photon Ca2+ Imaging to Study Temporal Pattern Separation [$38,000]
Matthew Shtrahman, Salk Institute, Neurosciences
Fred Gage, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences

Neural Mechanisms for the Perception of Motion in Natural Environments [$50,000]
Thomas D. Albright, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Tatyana Sharpee, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences

A Neurobehavioral Foundation for Affective Computing: Rat-Robot Brain-Computer Interfaces For Dynamic Interaction [$25,000]
Andrea Chiba, Cognitive Science
Virginia de Sa, Cognitive Science
Laleh Quinn, Cognitive Science
Eric Leonardis, Cognitive Science
Ramesh Maddula, Computer Science

Relapse at the intersection of addiction and neurogenesis: Using a novel behavioral paradigm to assess the role of pattern separation in ethanol relapse [$25,000]
Andrea Chiba, Cognitive Science
Fred Gage, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Pai-Kai Huang, Cognitive Science
Eunice Mejia, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences

2015-2016

Persistence of memory: a role for non-neuronal cells [$50,000]
Antonio Pinto-Duarte, Salk Institute
Xin Wang, Salk Institute
Shyam Srinivasan, Kavli Institute of Brain and Mind
Terry J. Sejnowski, Salk Institute and Neurobiology

Development of a nano-robotic toolkit for ultrahigh precision neuron targeting and manipulation [$50,000]
Peichao Li, Salk Institute
Joseph Wang, Nanoengineering
Jinxing Li, UCSD Nanoengineering
Edward Callaway, Salk Institute
Espoir M. Kyubwa, Salk Institute and Bioengineering
Berta Esteban Fernández de Ávila, Nanoengineering
Wenjuan Liu, Nanoengineering
Tianlong Li, Nanoengineering
Isaac Rozen, Nanoengineering

Reconciling Mnemonic and Spatial Functions of the Hippocampus in Marmoset [$50,000]
Samuel U. Nummela, Psychology
Cory Miller, Psychology
John Wixted, Psychology
Jill Leutgeb, Neurobiology

The impact of literacy on cognition and language processing as revealed by a unique sample of nonliterate older adults [$50,000]
Marta Kutas, Cognitive Science
Hsu-Wen Huang, National Taiwan Normal University
Kara Federmeier, University of Illinois
Elizabeth Stine-Morrow, University of Illinois

Finding parallels: the role of the subiculum in neural encoding of object-environment alignment [$50,000]
Jacob M. Olson, Cognitive Science
Douglas Nitz, Cognitive Science
Bradley Voytek, Cognitive Science

Illuminating the bridge between body and mind: Optical sensing and modulation of interoceptive information from the vagus nerve [$50,000]
Todd Coleman, Bioengineering
Marcelo Aguilar-Rivera, Bioengineering
Phillip Kyriakakis, Bioengineering
Laleh K. Quinn, Cognitive Science
Andrea A. Chiba, Cognitive Science

Beyond the Connectome: How Non-Synaptic Neuronal Mechanisms Modulate Circuit and Behavior [$50,000]
Chih-Ying Su, Neurobiology
Mark H. Ellisman, Neuroscience and NCMIR

A price paid by being Human? Finding the natural selection signals of polygenic risk for severe psychiatric illness and their contributions to brain morphology [$50,000]
Chun Chieh Fan, Cognitive Science
Terry L. Jernigan, Cognitive Science, Psychiatry, and Radiology
Anders M. Dale, Radiology, Neurosciences, and Cognitive Science
Zhuowen Tu, Cognitive Science and Computer Science and Engineering
Vineet Bafna, Computer Science and Engineering

Sonogenetics - a novel, non-invasive approach to manipulating neuronal activity [$50,000]
Sreekanth Chalasani, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Daniel Gibbs, Neurosciences
Stuart Ibsen, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences

Engineering novel molecular tools to manipulate neuropeptide signaling [$50,000]
Kenta Asahina, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Byungkook Lim, Neurobiology

2014-2015

An fMRI Experiment on How the Brain Understands Violence [$30,000]
James Fowler, Political Science
Martin Paulus, Psychiatry

"A-HA!" A Novel Behavioral Paradigm and Proposed Neural Mechanism of Spatial Insights in Rats [$30,000]
Andrew Alexander, Cognitive Science
Douglas Nitz, Cognitive Science
Jeffrey Krichmar, UC Irvine, Cognitive Science

Novel Technique to Regulate Synaptic Weight in Neural Circuits [$30,000]
Yimin Zou, Neurobiology
Stefan Leutgeb, Neurobiology

Probing the Mind of Mating Flies: The Neuronal Mechanisms of Behavioral Exclusivity During Drosophila Sexual Behavior [$30,000]
Ralph Greenspan, Neurobiology and Cognitive Science
Takeo Katsuki, UCSD Kavli Institute of Brain and Mind
Jurgen Schulze, UCSD Qualcomm Institute
Donald Pfaff, Rockefeller University

Light Controlled Gene Expression by Flexible Opto-electronics [$30,000]
Todd Coleman, Bioengineering
Gentry Patrick, Neurobiology
Marianne Catanho, Bioengineering
Lara Dozier, Neurobiology
Nicole Hoffner, Bioengineering

The Basal Ganglia and Language: Investigations into Syntactic Processing in Parkinson's Patients [$30,000]
Mieko Ueno, Cognitive Science
Marta Kutas, Cognitive Science and Neurosciences
Irene Litvan, Neurosciences
Laura Kemmer, Pacific Lutheran University
Shugo Suwazono, Okinawa Hospital

Informing Genome-Wide Association Analyses with Patterns of DNA Methylation to Identify SNPs Associated with Variability in Prefrontal Structure, Executive Function and Schizophrenia [$30,000]
Christopher Keown, Cognitive Science
Terry Jernigan, Cognitive Science, Psychiatry, and Radiology
Anders Dale, Neuroscience, Radiology, and Psychiatry
Eran Mukamel, Cognitive Science
Wesley Thompson, Psychiatry

Extracting Principles of Random Maps from Frog Olfactory Systems [$30,000]
Shyam Srinivasan, UCSD Kavli Institute of Brain and Mind
Charles Stevens, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences and UCSD Kavli Institute of Brain and Mind
Christopher Kintner, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences

A Novel Test of the Grounded Cognition Hypothesis in Grapheme-Color Synesthetes [$30,000]
Ben Amsel, Cognitive Science
Marta Kutas, Cognitive Science
Seana Coulson, Cognitive Science

Be Still Thy Fluttering Heart: Using the Interoceptive System to Understand Social Responding to a Novel Animat Social Neuroscience Tool [$30,000]
Andrea Chiba, Cognitive Science
Laleh Quinn, Cognitive Science
Janet Wiles, University of Queensland
Todd Coleman, Bioengineering

2013-2014

Socially Situated Neuroscience: Creating a socially navigating autonomous rat as a novel tool for assessing social influences on neuronal function [$30,000]
Andrea Chiba, Cognitive Science
Laleh Quinn, Cognitive Science
Janet Wiles, School of Information Technology & Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland

Left to Its Own Devices: Is Left Hemispheric Specialization for Speech Special? [$30,000]
Carson Dance, Cognitive Science
Gedeon Deák, Cognitive Science
Sarah Creel, Cognitive Science

Synaptic mechanisms for natural signal integration [$30,000]
Timothy Gentner, Psychology
Massimo Scanziani, Neurobiology
Krista Perks, Neurosciences

Dissecting the pathways of action sequence learning: From multisite optogenetics to computational models [$30,000]
Xin Jin, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Jason Klug, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
David Peterson, UCSD Institute for Neural Computation
Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences

How rats decide to decide [$30,000]
Pamela Reinagel, Neurobiology
Andrea Chiba, Cognitive Science
Pai-Kai Huang, Cognitive Science

The Perception of Facial Expressions: The Influence of Presence on Spontaneous Mimicry and Neural Activity [$30,000]
Ayse P. Saygin, Cognitive Science
Piotr Winkielman, Psychology
Galit Hofree, Psychology
Burcu A. Urgen, Cognitive Science

Development of a novel and innovative electrochemical biosensor for the detection of zeptomolar changes to nicotine-induced biomarkers in NG2 cells [$30,000]
Joseph Wang, Nanoengineering
Danielle John, Neurobiology
Aoife O’Mahony, Nanoengineering

A Broadly Distributed Memory Signal in Neurons of the Human Hippocampus [$30,000]
John Wixted, Psychology
Larry Squire, Psychiatry, Neurosciences, and Psychology
Peter Steinmetz, Barrow Neurological Institute

2012-2013

Developing marmosets as a model for visual neuroscience and optogenetics research [$29,550]
Jude F. Mitchell, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
John H. Reynolds, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Cory Miller, Psychology

Effect of Prenatal Nicotine Exposure on Dopamine Expression and Reward- Seeking/Addictive behaviors [$30,000]
Davide Dulcis, Neurobiology
Nicholas Spitzer, Neurobiology
Darwin Berg, Neurobiology
Adrian Lozada, Neurobiology
Melanie Kucharksi, Neurobiology

Dolphin Social Attention in a Fission/Fusion Ecology [$30,000]
Edwin Hutchins, Cognitive Science
Christine Johnson, Cognitive Science
John Hildebrand, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Remembering to control yourself: Parsing brain networks for self-control using simultaneous EEG and fMRI [$30,000]
Jan R. Wessel, Psychology
Adam R. Aron, Psychology
Thomas T. Liu, Radiology

The application of resting state fMRI and EEG coherence to a mouse model of a neurodevelopmental disorder [$30,040]
David N. Lieberman, Neurosciences
Jeanne Townsend, Neurosciences and Cognitive Science
Jonathan Bui, Neurosciences

I see what you're saying: Testing a multisensory learning paradigm for speech-in-noise comprehension [$30,000]
Thomas P. Urbach, Cognitive Science
Marta Kutas, Cognitive Science and Neurosciences

Pediatric neural architecture of polygenic risk for dyslexia [$29,988]
Andrew J. Schork, Cognitive Science
Anders Dale, Radiology, Neurosciences, and Psychiatry
Terry Jernigan, Cognitive Science, Psychiatry, and Radiology
Wesley Thompson, Psychiatry
Ole Andreassen, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Oslo University Hospital and Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo

Real-time EEG analysis for improving memory [$30,722]
Virginia de Sa, Cognitive Science
Eunho Noh, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Marta Kutas, Cognitive Science
Tim Curran, University of Colorado, Boulder, Psychology
Grit Herzmann, University of Colorado, Boulder, Psychology

The development of neural language processing after childhood [$30,000]
Rachel I. Mayberry, Linguistics
Naja Ferjan Ramirez, Linguistics
Eric Halgren, Radiology
Matt Leonard, Radiology

Dissociating multi-voxel activation patterns of spatial and temporal episodic memory using high spatial resolution fMRI with advanced distortion correction [$30,000]
Emilie Reas, Neurosciences
James Brewer, Radiology and Neurosciences
John Serences, Psychology
Anders Dale, Neurosciences, Radiology, and Cognitive Science

2011-2012

Encoding Behavioral Experience Within Highly Specific Neuronal Circuits in the Brain: Structural and Electrophysiological Mechanisms Underlying Learning [$30,000]
Mark H. Tuszynski, Neurosciences
Massimo Scanziani, Neurobiology

Neural Correlates of Individual Differences in Compassion and Empathy in Aging [$30,000]
Lisa T. Eyler, Psychiatry
Colin Depp, Psychiatry
Shahrokh Golshan, Psychiatry
Dilip Jeste, Psychiatry and Neurosciences
Barton Palmer, Psychiatry
Wesley Thompson, Psychiatry
Mary Devereaux, Bioethics, UCSD Research Ethics Program
Philippe Goldin, Stanford Psychology
Lawrence Palinkas, School of Medicine and USC Social Work

Interneurons As Clock-Free Regulators of Neural Information Transfer [$30,000]
Douglas Nitz, Cognitive Science
Janet Wiles, University of Queensland, Australia

Cortical Plasticity of Body Representations Following Tool Use [$30,122]
Luke Miller, Cognitive Science
Ayse P. Saygin, Cognitive Science
Matthew Longo, Birkbeck College, University of London

Computational, Behavioral, and Functional Anatomical Basis for Receptive Visual Processing of Emotional and Cultural Information of Human Faces [$30,230]
Frank Haist, Psychiatry
Marian Bartlett, UCSD Institute for Neural Computation
Maha Adamo, UCSD Center for Human Development
Joshua Susskind, UCSD Institute for Neural Computation
Kang Lee, University of Toronto and Zhejang Science & Technical University, China

Event-Related Brain Potential Measures of the Acquisition of Grammatical Constraints [$30,000]
Marta Kutas, Cognitive Science and Neurosciences
Farrell Ackerman, Linguistics
Jeremy Boyd, University of Illinois, Psychology

Novel Role of Glia in Brain Function: Modulation of Gamma Oscillations [$30,000]
Stephen Heinemann, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Hosuk Sean Lee, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Antonio Pinto-Duarte, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Xin Wang, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Amanda Roberts, Scripps Research Institute

Anatomical Connections Among Neuronal Circuits [$30,000]
William Kristan, Neurobiology
Mark Ellisman, Neurosciences
Jason Pipkin, Neurosciences
Eric A. Bushong, Neurosciences

2010-2011

From Single Neurons to Perception: Theoretical Principles and Neuronal Mechanisms [$30,000]
Thomas D. Albright, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Sergei Gepshtein, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences

Babbling Baby Neurons in the Dentate Gyrus [$30,000]
Andrea Chiba, Cognitive Science
Fred Gage, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Janet Wiles, University of Queensland
Laleh Quinn, Cognitive Science
Lara Rangel, Neurosciences

Development and Plasticity of Medical Entorhinal Cortex-Hippocampus Spatial Maps [$30,000]
Stefan Leutgeb, Neurobiology
Yimin Zou, Neurobiology

Population Codes with Natural Stimuli in Primary Visual Cortex [$30,000]
Ian Nauhaus, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Edward Callaway, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Kristina Nielsen, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Tatyana Sharpee, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences

Is Seeing Believing? Examining the Role of Cortico-cortical Feedback for Perception [$30,000]
Hendrikje Nienborg, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Ed Callaway, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
John Reynolds, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Ali Cetin, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
John Curtis, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences

Spatio-temporal Neuroimaging of Conscious and Non-conscious Visual Processing [$30,000]
Michael Pitts, Neurosciences
Steven Hillyard, Neurosciences
Eric Halgren, Radiology, Neurosciences, and Psychiatry

Exploring Human - Chimpanzee Neuronal Differences Using Pluripotent Stem Cells [$33,545]
Katerina Semendeferi, Anthropology
Alysson Muotri, School of Medicine
Fred Gage, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences

Neurohistological Analysis of the Brains of Two Memory-impaired Patients (EP and AB) [$30,000]
Larry R. Squire, San Diego VA Healthcare System and Psychiatry, Psychology and Neurosciences
Jacopo Annese, Radiology
David Amaral, UC Davis, Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences, M.I.N.D. Institute

2008-2009

Exploring the Function of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis: A Neuronal Activity Analysis [$30,000]
Fred H. Gage, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Wei Deng, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Michael Saxe, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
James B. Aimone, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Mark Mayford, Scripps Research Institute

The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Bilingual Lexical Representation [$30,000]
Matthew Leonard, Cognitive Science
Jeffrey Elman, Cognitive Science
Eric Halgren, Radiology
Timothy Brown, Psychiatry
Katherine Travis, Neurosciences
Rachel Mayberry, Linguistics

Functional Consequences of the Attentional Enhancement of Gamma Oscillatory Activity [$30,000]
Stephani Otte, Neurosciences
Andrea Hasenstaub, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Takuma Mori, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Ed Callaway, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Emily Anderson, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
John Reynolds, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences

Developmental Changes in the Cortical Dynamics of Semantic Processing [$30,000]
Tim Brown, Psychiatry
Eric Halgren, Radiology
Doris Trauner, Neurosciences
Anders Dale, Neurosciences

Joint Attention and the Neural Correlates of Word Learning in Human Infants [$30,000]
Katherine Travis, Neurosciences
Jeffrey Elman, Cognitive Science
Timothy Brown, Psychiatry
Anders Dale, Radiology
Eric Halgren, Radiology
Mingxiong Huang, Radiology
Megan Curran, Cognitive Science

Towards a Rat Model of Blindsight [$30,000]
Pamela Reinagel, Biology

Relating Specific Neuronal Network Structure and Function to Perceptual Experience in vivo [$30,000]
James Marshel, Neurosciences
Ed Callaway, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Takuma Mori, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Kristina Nielsen, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences

Brain Mechanisms of Multisensory Perceptual Learning [$30,000]
Gene R. Stoner, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Ladan Shams, UCLA

Semantic Categorization in the Ventral Stream: Investigating the 'Tool' Category with fMRI and EEG in Awake Non-human Primates [$30,000]
Tom Albright, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Ricardo Gil-da-Costa, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Jeng-Ren Duann, UCSD Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience
Tzyy-Ping Jung, UCSD Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience

The Evolutionary Forerunners of Consciousness [$39,450]
Patricia S. Churchland, Philosophy
Ralph Greenspan, UCSD Kavli Institute of Bain and Mind

2007-2008

A Neuroimaging Investigation of the Component Processes of Recognition Memory [$27,900]
John Wixted, Psychology
Peter Wais, Psychology

Exploring the Behavioral Consequences of Neurogenesis in Dentate Gyrus [$9,006]
Janet Wiles, University of Queensland
Fred Gage, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Andrea Chiba, Cognitive Science

Disruption of the Balance Between Self-Control and Impulsivity in Stimulant Users: How Processing Time in the Brain Affects Decision Making [$30,000]
Martin Paulus, Psychiatry
Marc Wittmann, Psychiatry

Molecular Conservation in the Hippocampus of Vertebrates [$30,000]
Harvey J. Karten, Neurosciences
Ethan Bier, Cell and Developmental Biology

Joint Attention and the Neural Correlates of Word Learning in Human Infants [$30,000]
Katie Travis, Neurosciences
Jeffrey Elman, Cognitive Science
Eric Halgren, Radiology
Anders Dale, Radiology
Tim Brown, Psychiatry
Mingxiong Huang, Radiology
Elizabeth Redcay, Cognitive Science
Matthew Leonard, Cognitive Science

From Sounds to Songs: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Sensorimotor Transformations in Vocal Communication [$30,000]
Timothy Gentner, Psychology
Henry Abarbanel, Physics, Scripps Research Institute

Neural Basis of Metaphorical Abstraction: A Functional Magnetic Resonancestudy of Ego-Reference-Point Spatial Construals of Time [$33,300]
Rafael Nunez, Cognitive Science
Ruey-Song Huang, UCSD Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience
Martin Sereno, Cognitive Science

A New Approach to Exploring Hippocampal Function. Evaluating Encoding, Storage and Retrieval Using Reversible Lesions [$29,823]
Robert E. Clark, Psychiatry
Larry R. Squire, Psychiatry, VAMCSD

Identifying Structural Neural Correlates during Sleep Memory Consolidation [$30,000]
Philip Low, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute and Neurobiology
Fred H. Gage, Neurosciences

A Study of Normal Infants and Infants at Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) [$30,000]
Karen Dobkins, Psychology
Vivian Ciaramitaro, Psychology

Relating Specific Neuronal Network Structure and Function to Perceptual Experience In Vivo [$30,000]
James Marshel, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Ed Callaway, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
David Lyon, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences
Ian Wickersham, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences

Exploring the Neural Basis of Visual Perception [$30,000]
Anirvan Ghosh, Neurobiology
Massimo Scanziani, Neurobiology

2006-2007

Neural correlates of social referencing in children with autism [$30,000]
Leslie Carver, Psychology
Karen Dobkins, Psychology
Aubyn Stahmer, Psychology

Developing adaptive minds: Neural and behavioral dynamics of cognitive flexibility in childhood [$32,220]
Gedeon Deak,  Cognitive Science
Nicholas J. Cepeda, Psychology
Rita Ceponiene, UCSD Center for Research in Language
Alan Lincoln, San Diego Center for Autism Research
Jeanne Townsend, Neurosciences

A new look at the workings of the visual system: from retinal output to dyslexia [$28,045]
Rita Ceponiene, UCSD Center for Research in Language
Robert Galambos, Neurosciences
Angela Ballantyne, Neurosciences
Jeanne Townsend, Neurosciences
Beverly Wulfeck, UCSD Center for Research in Language

Lesion-symptom mapping and pragmatic language comprehension [$29,700]
Seana Coulson, Cognitive Science
Nina Dronkers, Martinez VA Hospital
Suzanne Moineau, UCSD Center for Research in Language

Does sleep require a brain? [$39,100]
Ralph Greenspan, San Diego Neurosciences Institute

Overcoming overlearning [$31,300]
Mathew D. McCubbins, Political Science
Seana Coulson, Cognitive Science
Darren Schreiber, Political Science

Is the thalamus the gatekeeper of sensory awareness? [$30,000]
Pamela Reinagel, Neurobiology
Philip Meier, Computational Neurobiology
Erik Flister, Computational Neurobiology

Neural substrates of socio-emotional processing: from evolution and development to pathology [$35,000]
Katerina Semendeferi, Anthropology
Eric Courchesne, Neurosciences
Lisa Stefanacci, Salk Institute of Biological Sciences and Psychiatry

The cross-race effect: Testing the configural processing superiority hypothesis [$30,300]
Frank Haist, Psychiatry
Joan Stiles, Cognitive Science
Kang Lee, Psychology
Hongchuan Zhang, Psychology
Zhiying Long, Psychiatry
Deborah Weiss, UCSD Center for Human Development
Sarah Noonan, UCSD & SDSU JDP in Clinical Psychology

2005-2006

The Measurement of Neurotransmitters and Single Cell Recordings during Tasks from Awake Patients Undergoing Brain Surgery [$30,000]
Robert J. Buchanan, UCSD Surgery
Ron Kuczenski, UCSD Psychiatry and Neurosciences
Ann M. Graybiel, MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Reseach
Larry Squire, UCSD Neurosciences

A Pilot Proposal For Investigating The Role of The Amygdala in Social Cognition Across Animals [$41,765]
Andrea Chiba, UCSD Cognitive Science

How a Neuron Becomes a Mirror in the Developing Brain: An Electrophysiological Study [$34,623]
Rita Ceponiene, UCSD Center for Research in Language

Psychophysical Studies of the Magnocellular and Dorsal Stream as a Phenotypic Marker for Autism Spectrum Disorders [$28,893]
Karen Dobkins, UCSD Psychology
Joe McCleery, UCSD Psychology

Molecular Genetic Characterization Of the Lesch Nyhan Disease – A Cognitive and Behavioral Disorder [$29,600]
Theodore Friedmann, UCSD Pediatrics

Neurogenesis in Dentate Gyrus: A Computational Exploration [$30,000]
Fred Gage, Salk Institute
James B. Aimone, Salk Institute
Janet Wiles, Salk Institute

Generation of a Novel Inducible Silencing System in Mice to Explore the Role of GABAergic Activity in Brain Development and Function [$30,000]
Anirvan Ghosh, UCSD Neurobiology
Massimo Scanziani, UCSD Neurobiology

Relating Functional and Physical Long-Distance Connectivity in Development [$30,280]
John Lewis, UCSD Cognitive Science
Jeanne Townsend, UCSD Neurosciences
Marissa Westerfield, Institute for Neural Computation
Scott Makeig, Institute for Neural Computation
Larry Frank, UCSD Radiology

Brain Dynamics and Motor Control [$30,000]
Howard Poizner, Institute for Neural Computation
Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute
Scott Makeig, Institute for Neural Computation

Exploring Consciousness in Blindsight and Hypnosis [$30,000]
V.S. Ramachandran, UCSD Psychology

Investigating Human Brain Responses to the Movements and Actions of Humanoid Robots and Androids [$33,555]
Ayse P. Saygin, UCSD Cognitive Science
Javier Movellan, Institute for Neural Computation
Martin Sereno, UCSD Cognitive Science

Cortical Models of Fluid Intelligence [$5,850]
Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute
Denise Garlick, Registered Nurse

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