Fellowships: Sensory and Motor Neurosciences, Cognition and Perception – F02B
The F02B study section reviews fellowship applications including those with an emphasis on understanding normal sensory (both auditory and visual), motor or sensorimotor function. The proposed science may involve either animal models or human subjects. F02B also reviews applications with projects examining visual, somatosensory and nociceptive information processing, integration of multisensory information, and neural correlates of attention and cognition. Cognitive neuroscience applications (except learning and memory) are also reviewed in this panel, as well as disorders of cognitive, sensory, perceptual and motor development. F02B reviews applications using a range of animal models and/or human subjects. Methods range from cellular/molecular neurobiology to neurophysiology to human psychophysical and imaging approaches.
The List of Reviewers lists all present, whether standing members or temporary, to provide the full scope of expertise present on that date. Lists are posted 30 days before the meeting and are tentative, pending any last minute changes.
Review Dates
Topics
- Studies of motor control focusing on cortical, subcortical, and spinal systems underlying locomotion and other motor behaviors
- Parkinson’s, Huntington’s and other motor diseases (e.g., ataxias and dystonia) when the focus is on motor control/circuitry primarily in animal models
- Sensorimotor integration, such as studies of the rodent whisker-barrel system, investigations of hand-eye coordination, and studies of proprioception
- Mechanisms of touch, mechanosensation, thermosensation, encoded by somatosensory cortex as well as subcortical, spinal, and peripheral systems
- Chemosensation including olfactory, gustatory and chemesthesis.
- Mechanisms of pain and analgesia, ranging from studies of primary afferents to spinal circuits to central processes involved in nociception
- Studies of anatomical and neurophysiological substrates of central visual processes, such as object and motion perception, binocular processes and studies of cortical plasticity at cellular and network levels.
- Visual information processing in the neuronal circuits from the retina to and including all visual areas of the brain.
- The normal and abnormal development of visual neural circuits. The sensory and perceptual consequences of strabismus and amblyopia.
- Topics in Cognitive Neuroscience (except learning and memory), such as studies of attention, face and object perception, motor learning.
- Circuit-level studies of reward mechanisms and other motivated behaviors
- Drug abuse: Circuit mechanisms of tolerance and dependence on opioids and other drugs with abuse potential, including opiates, non-opioids and other analgesics.
- Studies of interactions of sensory modalities, such as interactions of auditory and visual systems
- Perceptual mechanisms for all sensory modalities
- Cognitive, sensory, or perceptual mechanisms underlying behavioral, mental and aging disorders
- Disorders of cognitive, sensory, perceptual and motor development, including intellectual disabilities, autism, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in animal models.
