Perception, Action & Cognition

The Perception, Action & Cognition (PAC) program supports research on human perceptual, motor, and cognitive processes and their interactions. The program welcomes a wide range of perspectives and methodologies, including computational modeling, experimental studies, and modeling. Research involving acquired or developmental deficits is appropriate if the results speak to basic issues of perception, action, and cognition. The program is open to co-review of proposals submitted to other programs both within the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate and across other directorates. Some key areas of research include: • Vision • Audition • Haptics • Attention • Memory • Reasoning • Written and spoken discourse • Motor control • Developmental issues The PAC program strongly encourages proposals that examine human behavior in realistic scenarios and include varied subject populations. It is expected that knowledge gained from PAC-supported projects will have a clear and direct path towards benefitting society.