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News Release 14-099
NSF awards $10.8 million in early concept grants for brain research
36 new awards as part of NSF’s support for The BRAIN Initiative and potentially transformative insights into understanding the brain
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New technologies can enable researchers to better understand how complex behaviors emerge from the activity of brain circuits. This image shows nerve cells in the brain of a songbird that are associated with learning and producing birdsongs.
Credit: Vamsi Daliparthi and Todd Roberts, Department of Neuroscience, UT Southwestern Medical Center
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