Cognitive Neuroscience

PROGRAM GUIDELINES

Announcement  09-563

Please be advised that the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) includes revised guidelines to implement the mentoring provisions of the America COMPETES Act (ACA) (Pub. L. No. 110-69, Aug. 9, 2007.) As specified in the ACA, each proposal that requests funding to support postdoctoral researchers must include a description of the mentoring activities that will be provided for such individuals. Proposals that do not comply with this requirement will be returned without review (see the PAPP Guide Part I: Grant Proposal Guide Chapter II for further information about the implementation of this new requirement).

DUE DATES

Full Proposal Target Date:  January 24, 2010

January 24, Annually Thereafter

Full Proposal Target Date:  August 27, 2010

August 27, Annually Thereafter

SYNOPSIS

The Cognitive Neuroscience Program seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through time.

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The final report of a second workshop held at NSF in August, 2006, on Brain Science as a Mutual Opportunity for the Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Computer Science, and Engineering

The final report of a workshop held at NSF in July, 2006, on the Grand Challenges of Mind and Brain

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