----- Begin Included Message ----- The McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience Investigator-Initiated Grants 1995-1996 The McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience is a collaborative effort established by the James S. McDonnell Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri and The Pew Charitable Trusts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to support research. Since its inception in 1990, the Program has awarded $23 million in support of institutional centers and individual investigators. Cognitive neuroscience attempts to understand human mental events by specifying how neural tissue carries out computations. Work in cognitive neuroscience is multi-disciplinary, drawing on developments in clinical and basic neuroscience, computer science, psychology, linguistics, and philosophy. The McDonnell-Pew Program does not support research based on descriptions of psychological function that do not address underlying brain mechanisms or neuroscientific descriptions that do not speak to psychological function. Proposals to investigate basic neurobiology unrelated to human, higher-order cognition will not be reviewed. The Program has two components: 1) Institutional Center grants that established large research and training programs; all Center grants have been awarded. 2) Investigator-initiated grants supporting interdisciplinary trainin and providing seed funds for collaborative research. The Program accepts investigator-initiated grants as described in this brochure. Program goals: The Program will preferentially support innovative, interdisciplinary research of the highest caliber that is unlikely to be funded from traditional sources. The Program hopes to encourage researchers to seek interdisciplinary training and collaborations with persons outside their own discipline. The Program particularly encourages research on higher cognitive functions including, high-order vision, language, planning, and problem-solving. The cognitive question to be studied and the neuroscientific methods to be applied must be clearly articulated in the research proposal. The awards will provide a maximum of $35,000 per year for up to 3 years. Indirect costs are included in the $35,000 maximum and cannot exceed 10% of total salaries plus fringe benefits. An individual cannot receive support from more than one investigator-initiated grant. The grants are non-renewable. Examples of the types of research proposals sought by the program include: using neurobiological methods to study higher cognitive processes applying formal modeling techniques to cognitive functions, including emotions and higher thought processes developing new theories of the human mind/brain systems using sensing (EEG, MEG) or imaging techniques (PET, MRI) to observe the brain during conscious activity. Preference will be given to training proposals that exemplify multi-disciplinary and collaborative research as described below: a junior scientist pursuing a research project in the laboratory of senior scientist in a different field of cognitive neuroscience; collaborations between two or more scientists representing different subdisciplines of cognitive neuroscience; a scientist with expertise in a subdiscipline of cognitive neuroscience obtaining hands-on training in a new methodology or technique to be used in the study of higher cognitive function Eligibility: Individual investigators at institutions with McDonnell-Pew Center grants, who are already receiving support from a McDonnell-Pew Center grant are not eligible for the investigator-initiated grant program. Researchers who are at institutions that have been awarded a McDonnell-Pew Center grant but who do not receive any support from the Center are eligible. There are no US citizenship restrictions or requirements, nor must the proposed work be conducted at a US institution, providing the sponsoring organization qualifies as tax-exempt under IRS guidelines (see the "Applications" section of this brochure). The Program described in this brochure will not support dissertation research, workshops, or conferences. Application guidelines: Applicants should submit six (6) copies of the following information: 1) A completed cover sheet (enclosed); 2) A brief, one-page abstract describing the proposed work; 3) A brief, itemized budget that includes direct and indirect costs (indirect costs may not exceed 10 percent of total salaries and fringe benefits); 4) A budget justification; 5) A narrative proposal (not to exceed 5,000 words) that describes the cognitive question to be investigated and all methodological approaches in sufficient detail to allow the proposal to be evaluated by the advisory board. If the application is requesting support for training, a description of the training plan and the relationship of the training to the applicant's research goals should be included; 6) Curriculum vitae for each of the participating investigators; 7) An authorized document indicating clearance for the use of human and animal subjects; 8) An endorsement letter from the officer of the sponsoring institution who will be responsible for administering the grant. One copy of each of the following items must also be submitted along with the proposal. These documents can be obtained from the sponsoring institution's grants or development office. A copy of the IRS determination letter, or the international equivalent, stating that the sponsoring organization is a nonprofit, tax-exempt institution classified as a 501(c)(3) organization. A copy of the IRS determination letter stating that the sponsoring organization is not listed as a private foundation under section 509(a) of the Internal Revenue Service Code. No other documents should be appended to the application. Appended documents not specifically requested in the guidelines will be discarded. Submissions will be reviewed by the program's advisory board. Applications must be received in the Foundation office on or before February 26, 1996. Incomplete or late proposals will not be reviewed - no exemptions will be granted. The awards will be announced in June, 1996. Contact: Susan M. Fitzpatrick, Ph.D. McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience James S. McDonnell Foundation 1034 South Brentwood Blvd., Suite 1610 St. Louis, Missouri 63117 Phone: 314/721-1532 e-mail: C06819CN(a)WUVMD.WUSTL.edu 1995 Investigator-Initiated Grantees Dare A. Baldwin University of Oregon Neurophysiology Concomitants of Language Comprehension in Infancy Rhonda B. Friedman Georgetown University Evaluating Cognitive Neuropsychological Models of Language Recovery with fMRI Dan Geschwind University of California, Los Angeles Localization of a Gene Underlying Cerebral Lateralization in Humans Sonya Gettner University of Maryland at Baltimore Neural Encoding of Object-Centered Spatial Coordinates Jeffrey A. Gray Institute of Psychiatry Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Synaesthesia and Associative Learning Michael Graziano Princeton University Visuo-Motor Integration in Premotor Areas of the Macaque Monkey Brain Alexander Grunewald California Institute of Technology Body and World Centered Representations of Auditory Targets in Posterior Parietal Cortex Daniel C. Javitt Albert Einstein College of Medicine NMDA Receptors in Auditory Sensory Memory Steven J. Luck University of Iowa Neural Systems Mediating Attentional Selection in Time Norma A. Mejia-Monasterio Vanderbilt University Neural Basis of Visually Guided Attention: The Role of a Third Visual Pathway Nava Rubin Harvard University The Neural Basis of Shape Representation: Towards an Intermediate-Level Analysis of Visual Surfaces Jerome N. Sanes Brown University Neural Mechanisms of Preparation and Choice Kevin Sauve New York University Medical Center Perception, Imagery, and 40-Hz Thalamocortical Activity: A Magnetoencephalographic Investigation Tim Shallice University College London Acquired and Developmental Disorders of Spelling: A Multi-Componential Model Todd W. Troyer University of California, San Francisco Imitation from Memory: An Associational Hypothesis for Vocal Learning Diana R. Van Lancker University of Southern California PET Activation Studies Comparing Aphasic and Normal Subjects: Two Speech Tasks Widely Used in Surgical Mapping Beverly A. Wright University of California, San Francisco Characterization and Training of Auditory Skills in Individuals with Language-Based Learning Disabilities Advisory Board: Emilio Bizzi, M.D. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sheila Blumstein, Ph.D. Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences Brown University Stephen J. Hanson, Ph.D. Learning Systems Department SIEMENS Research Jon H. Kaas, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Vanderbilt University Marcus E. Raichle, M.D. Division of Radiation Sciences Washington University School of Medicine Edward E. Smith, Ph.D. Department of Psychology The University of Michigan Anne Treisman, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Princeton University Endel Tulving, Ph.D. Rotman Research Institute Baycrest Centre McDONNELL-PEW COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE PROGRAM (Cover Sheet) Individual Grants-In-Aid Application (type or print) Proposal Type: Research Training Project Title: PI/Applicant: Mailing Address: Telephone: FAX: Email: (If Applicable) Co-PI(s)/Mentor: Mailing Address: Telephone Sponsoring Institution: Administration Contact: (Name and Title) Mailing Address: Telephone FAX: Administration Approval: Date: the 1996 McPew. The Foundation will also have a home page on the internet in two weeks or so, it is under construction at the moment! Stephen J. Hanson, Ph.D. Research Fellow SIEMENS Research 755 College Rd. East Princeton, NJ 08540 email:jose@learning.siemens.com tel: 609-734-3360 fax: 609-734-6565 ----- End Included Message -----