Award Abstract #0447713
CAREER: Mapping the Mind in Search of Oculomotor Learning Strategies

NSF Org:	CBET Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems
Initial Amendment Date:	February 1, 2005
Latest Amendment Date:	August 24, 2009
Award Number:	0447713
Award Instrument:	Continuing grant
Program Manager:	Leon Esterowitz CBET Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems ENG Directorate for Engineering
Start Date:	March 1, 2005
Expires:	February 28, 2011 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$515515
Investigator(s):	Tara Alvarez tara.l.alvarez@njit.edu (Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	New Jersey Institute of Technology 323 DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER Newark, NJ 07102 973/596-5275
NSF Program(s):	ENG DIVERSITY ACTIVITIES, BIOPHOTONICS, IMAGING &SENSING, BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING, RESEARCH TO AID THE DISABLED
Field Application(s):	0000099 Other Applications NEC, 0116000 Human Subjects
Program Reference Code(s):	SMET, OTHR, 9179, 9102, 1187, 1045, 004E, 0000
Program Element Code(s):	7680, 7236, 5345, 5342

ABSTRACT

0447713

Alvarez

This project will establish the Vision and Neural Engineering Laboratory at NJIT. The PI has already established a working oculomotor research laboratory. The PI proposes a set of experiments to assess vergent (depth) eye movement mechanisms in motion tracking. The core of her proposed techniques is based around learning a motor control task under paradigms of reinforcement and interference learning. Visual tracking as well as fMRI diagnostics will be used, followed by subsequent analysis via ICA.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

Alvarez TL, Bhavsar M, Semmlow JL, Bergen MT, Pedrono C. "Short-Term Predictive Changes in the Dynamics of Vergence Eye Movements," Journal of Vision, v.5, 2005, p. 640.

Lee YY, Chen T, Alvarez TL. "Quantitative Assessment of Divergence Eye Movements," Journal of Vision, v.8, 2008, p. 1.

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