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Perception, Action & Cognition (PAC) | NSF - U.S. National Science Foundation Perception, Action & Cognition (PAC) Important information for proposers and award recipients All proposals must be submitted in accordance with the requirements specified in the funding opportunity and in the Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) and its supplements .
All NSF grants and cooperative agreements are subject to the applicable set of NSF award terms and conditions . NSF has updated its research security policies for NSF funded projects. Supports theoretically motivated research aimed at increasing understanding of human perception, action and cognition and their interactions.
Supports theoretically motivated research aimed at increasing understanding of human perception, action and cognition and their interactions. The aim of the PAC program is to support empirically grounded, theoretically engaged and methodologically sophisticated research in a wide range of topic areas related to human perceptual, motor, and cognitive processes and their interactions.
The PAC program welcomes a wide range of perspectives and a variety of methodologies (including computational modeling if the goal is to expand explanatory theories of human perception, action, or cognition). PAC strongly encourages proposals that examine human behavior in realistic (or real-world) scenarios and that include varied subject population.
It is expected that knowledge gained from PAC-supported projects will have a clear and direct path towards benefitting society. PAC is open to co-review of proposals submitted to other programs both within the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate and across other directorates.
Note: Proposals may be returned without review if the primary goal of the research is to understand (1) structure/function mappings between PAC processes and neural activity; (2) clinical populations per se; or (3) behavior of non-human animals without a clear and direct impact on our understanding of human perception, action or cognition. Before submitting a proposal, investigators are encouraged to email sbe-pac@nsf.
gov with a one-page summary of the proposed research (modeled after the Project Summary page of a standard proposal and including a description of both Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts) in order to confirm appropriateness of the work for the PAC program. PIs are strongly encouraged to submit the Single Copy Document titled “List of Suggested Reviewers” with their full proposal.
Sharing of data and other materials is an expectation for funded research. Please consult the NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Effective Practices for Data for more details. Interested in talking with a program director?
Send a one-page description of the proposed research to sbe-pac@nsf. gov .
Additional program resources Dear Colleague Letter: High School Student Research Assistantships in the Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE-High) Volunteer to be a PAC reviewer Dear Colleague Letter: Stimulating Diversification in Language Science Research (LangDiv) Dear Colleague Letter: Effective Practices for Data Dear Colleague Letter: A Broader Impacts Framework for Proposals Submitted to NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate Dear Colleague Letter: Stimulating Integrative Research in Computational Cognition (NSF 22-091) Fall PAC Newsletter for FY 2023 Fall PAC Newsletter for FY 2022 Fall PAC Newsletter for FY 2021 Fall PAC Newsletter for FY 2020 Fall PAC Newsletter for FY 2019 Awards made through this program Browse projects funded by this program Mind, Machine and Motor Nexus (M3X) Disability and Rehabilitation Engineering (DARE) EDU Core Research (ECR:Core) Collaborative Research in Computational Neuroscience (CRCNS) Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NCS) Smart Health and Biomedical Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Data Science (SCH) National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes Human Networks and Data Science (HNDS) Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (SBE/BCS)
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