The Behavioral Systems thematic area focuses on the development, function, mechanisms, and evolution of behavior, biological rhythms, and interactions between organisms including animals, plants, and microbes. This area supports research on social and reproductive behavior; behavioral ecology and physiology; neural and hormonal mechanisms of behavior; immunology of behavior; animal cognition and communication. Behavioral Systems encompasses physiological responses, chemical communication, and reproductive consequences of plant interactions with other organisms.

The goal of this program is to support fundamental research and catalyze synergistic science and engineering research and education in several emerging areas of nanoscale science and engineering, including: Active nanostructures, Nanosystems with improved functionality and new architectures, Hierarchical nanomanufacturing; and Long-term societal and educational implications of scientific and technological advances on the nanoscale.

A new funding opportunity for interdisciplinary teams of researchers is launched to embark on rapidly advancing frontiers of fundamental engineering research. For this solicitation, we will consider proposals that aim to investigate emerging frontiers in the following two specific research areas: (1) Autonomously Reconfigurable Engineered Systems Enabled by Cyberinfrastructure (ARES-CI) and (2) Cellular and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE).

NSF's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems intends to fund science and engineering research and education projects that develop new knowledge in the following three core technical areas: Human-Centered Computing Information Integration and Informatics and Robust Intelligence. In addition to the three core technical areas, IIS will support research in two cross-cutting technical areas: Human-Robot (and/or Agents) Interaction and Information Privacy and Security.

The Cognitive Neuroscience emphasis seeks highly innovative and interdisciplinary proposals aimed at advancing a rigorous understanding of how the human brain supports thought, perception, affect, action, social processes, and other aspects of cognition and behavior, including how such processes develop and change in the brain and through evolutionary time.

The most exciting and difficult challenge facing neuroscientists is to understand the functions of complex neurobiological systems. Collaborations among computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, statisticians, theoreticians and experimental neuroscientists, are imperative to advance our understanding of the nervous system and mechanisms underlying brain disorders. Computational understanding of the nervous system may also have a significant impact on the theory and design of engineered systems.

This program supports studies that increase our understanding of cognitive, linguistic, social, cultural, and biological processes related to children's and adolescents' development.

Supports research on perception, action and cognition including the development of these capacities. Emphasis is on research strongly grounded in theory. Research topics include vision, audition, haptics, attention, memory, reasoning, written and spoken discourse, motor control, and developmental issues in all topic areas.

This solicitation invites submission of research proposals for projects that advance the mathematical or statistical foundations of research in the social, behavioral, or economic sciences.  The resulting research is expected both to further understanding of social and/or behavioral science phenomena and to address a topic of interest to the mathematical sciences.

This program focuses on advancing the state of the art in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. The program supports research and related education activities fundamental to the development of computer systems capable of performing a broad variety of intelligent tasks, and to the development of computational models of intelligent behavior across the spectrum of human intelligence.

The Dana Foundation's imaging research program focuses on improving human brain and immune system functioning in health and disease. The program consists of two tracks. Track A is for conventional systems imaging. Track B is for the evolving field of cellular and molecular imaging of the biochemical actions of specific brain cells, immune cells, or their interactions.

The Bridging Brain, Mind, and Behavior Program supports inter-disciplinary research spanning the different levels of analysis required to answer questions linking neurobiology, cognition, and behavior.

This funding opportunity announcementsolicits Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant applications that propose research and development of probes useful in imaging the structure and function of the brain and other parts of the nervous system, with award duration and amounts greater than those routinely allowed under the SBIR programs.

Neuroscience Blueprint Interdisciplinary Center Core Grants will support centralized resources and facilities shared by neuroscience investigators.

This initiative is intended to support research leading to new ways for high resolution imaging of the neural activity that is reflected in electrophysiological signals.

The purpose of this PA is to identify research opportunities that may help to bridge the gap in understanding how immune cells and their mediators affect brain development, function and behaviors related to cognition and mood.

The purpose of these Centers is to support collaborative, hypothesis-driven basic research activities that will extend the most cutting-edge theories and approaches in basic behavioral science to incorporate current approaches in neuroscience.

The purpose of this FOA is to invite applications by small businesses for the commercial development of technologies for high throughput data acquisition and analysis that could aid the research fields of basic behavioral science or neuroscience.

The purpose of this program is to advance the NINDS mission to promote understanding and treatment of neurological disorders by providing core research facilities that are not otherwise available.

We request research grant applications to study neuroimmune molecules and mechanisms involved in regulating normal and pathological central nervous system (CNS) function.

The mission of the Computer Vision program is to provide opportunities to develop novel ideas into projects that have the potential to lead to advanced visual perception and intelligent systems. The Computer Vision program supports fundamental research and related education activities in computer vision.

The purpose of this RFA is to stimulate investigations of the cognitive/behavioral processes and neurobiological mechanisms of social behavior relevant to alcohol and drug abuse (NIDA/NIAAA) and decision making and judgment over the life course (NIA). Clinical and preclinical research will be supported by this initiative.

The main goal of the program is to develop and evaluate psychologically-based and neurobiologically-based theories, design principles, and architectures of human cognition. In a subsequent phase, the program has the ultimate goal of implementing and evaluating computational models of human cognition that could eventually be used to simulate human behavior and approach human cognitive performance in a wide range of situations.

The Defense Research Advanced Projects Agency (DARPA) is interested in receiving innovative proposals to conduct research and development on neuroscience-based tools to aid intelligence analysts. The vision for the Neurotechnology for Intelligence Analysts (NIA) program is to revolutionize the way that analysts handle intelligence imagery, increasing both the throughput of imagery to the analyst and accuracy of their assessments.

Precarn is seeking proposals from teams led by companies to conduct research and development in intelligent systems technologies that result in a prototype demonstrated in a user setting.  For this round of funding, Precarn has instituted a new policy to encourage submissions from new applicants.