Here are some of the current external grants held by Cognitive Science faculty at UMass Amherst
The Verbal Morpho-semantics and Clausal Architecture of Tlingit (NSF – Seth Cable, Linguistics)
CAREER: Testing a unified theory of perception and memory in the medial temporal lobe (NSF – Rosie Cowell, Psychological and Brain Sciences)
Collaborative Research: Variation and the Grammar of Child African American English (NSF – Lisa Green, Linguistics)
Perception and production of clitics (NSF – Alice Harris, Linguistics)
Aging and speech perception in complex listening environments (NIH – Karen Helfer, Communication Disorders)
Neural Habituation: A Unified Account of Visual Identification Dynamics across Tasks (NSF – David Huber, Psychological and Brain Sciences)
Computing constraint-based derivations: Phonological opacity and hidden structure learning (NSF – Joe Pater, Gaja Jarosz and John McCarthy, Linguistics)
Collaborative Research: Inside Phonological Learning (NSF – Joe Pater, Linguistics and Lisa Sanders, Psychological and Brain Sciences)
“Science Live!” Workshop on the Acquisition of Recursion across Languages (NSF – Tom Roeper, Linguistics)
Individual variability in human brain connectivity, modeled using multi-scale dynamics under energy constraints (NSF – Hava Siegelmann, Information and Computer Sciences)
The benefit of naps on cognitive, emotional and motor learning in preschoolers. (NIH – Rebecca Spencer, Psychological and Brain Sciences)
Sleep-dependent memory processing in older adults. (NIH – Rebecca Spencer, Psychological and Brain Sciences)
CAREER: Modeling Response-Time Distributions to Test Theories of Event Memory (NSF – Jeffrey Starns, Psychological and Brain Sciences)
Effects of lexical predictability on foveal and parafoveal processing in reading (NSF – Adrian Staub (PI) and Lisa Sanders (co-PI), Psychological and Brain Sciences)
Microgenetic Learning Analytics (NSF – Florence Sullivan, Education)