In response to a call for proposals announced in February, 2008, the TDLC training committee awarded $10,000 in small grants to support trainee research and collaboration.  Below is a list of awardees and funded projects:

 

Researchers	Award	Project
J. Acuña, Gedeon Deak, Andrea Chiba SIN, IMS	$1300	Cross-network collaboration to study infant social attention and emotion regulation
Pouya Bozorgmehr, Christopher Kanan, Garrison Cottrell PEN	$1000	Source localization of environmental sounds
Leanne Chukoskie, Terry Sejnowski, Andrea Chiba SMN, IMS	$1200	Cross-network collaboration to study neuronal correlates of search behavior in rats
Kaya de Barbaro, Gedeon Deak, Andrea Chiba SIN, IMS	$1000	Cross-network collaboration to study effects of stress-mediated vigilance on cognition and perception in infants
Janet Hsiao, Garrison Cottrell PEN	$1100	Visual expertise in Chinese character perception
Adrienne Moore, Andrea Chiba, Jaime Pineda, Scott Makeig IMS, SIN	$1100	Brain response to emotional faces in typical adults and ASD (autism spectrum disorder) patients.
Suzy Scherf, Marlene Behrmann, Jim Tanaka PEN	$1600	The relationship between visuoperceptual organization and face processing in children
Ying Wu, Howard Poizner, Seana Coulson, Andrey Vankov SIN, SMN	$1000	Cross-network collaboration to study the time course of co-speech gesture integration
Doug Yovanovich, Virginia de Sa, Terry Sejnowski SMN	$700	Subjective experience of time and perceptual processing