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How Visuospatial Memory Shapes Perception of Real-World Environments

Award Number: R01MH130529
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 04/07/2023
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 02/29/2028

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How Visuospatial Memory Shapes Perception of Real-World Environments - Project Abstract One long-standing puzzle in neuroscience is how scene perception and spatial memory systems – which are topographically distinct in the brain – interface to enable memory-guided visual behavior. In the context of scene perception, two crucial knowledge gaps remain. First, how does visuospatial memory of the local environment facilitate ongoing scene perception? Second, what are the neural underpinnings of memory-guided scene perception? The current project will tackle these questions by combining head-mounted virtual reality (VR), eye-tracking, and fine-grained within-subject fMRI. We will teach participants immersive, real-world environments and test how memory-guided scene processing is implemented in the brain and behavior. In doing so, we will advance a new mechanistic hypothesis as to the neural basis of memory-based predictive coding for scene processing. Together, this project will produce fundamental knowledge about how stored knowledge about the world influences ongoing perception during naturalistic visual experience, and how the brain accomplishes memory-guided visual behaviors like navigation. The resulting knowledge promises impact for our numerous health conditions such as Alzheimer’s, dementia, macular degeneration, cortical visual impairments, and healthy aging, in which both the visual behaviors and brain regions investigated here are implicated.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $348,500 )
2025	2025	TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE	7 LEBANON ST	HANOVER	NH	03755	GRAFTON	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	3	3/17/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$348,500
														Subtotal = $348,500

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $410,000 )
2024	2024	TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE	7 LEBANON ST	HANOVER	NH	03755	GRAFTON	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	2	3/21/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$369,000
2024	2024	TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE	7 LEBANON ST	HANOVER	NH	03755	GRAFTON	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	001	2	8/16/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$41,000
														Subtotal = $410,000

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $410,000 )
2023	2023	TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE	7 LEBANON ST	HANOVER	NH	03755	GRAFTON	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	001	1	7/28/2023	NEW	$0
2023	2023	TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE	7 LEBANON ST	HANOVER	NH	03755	GRAFTON	USA	Mental Health Research Grants	000	1	4/6/2023	NEW	$410,000
														Subtotal = $410,000

Grand Total All Awards = $1,168,500

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How Visuospatial Memory Shapes Perception of Real-World Environments

Award Number: R01MH130529

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 04/07/2023

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 02/29/2028

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