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OpenDue August 3, 2026

Perception, Action & Cognition (PAC)

National Science Foundation

Who can apply

US-based academic institutions. Non-profit research organizations. Qualified researchers (typically requires US citizenship or permanent residency)

About this opportunity

The aim of the PAC program is to support empirically grounded, theoretically engaged and methodologically sophisticated research in a wide range of topic areas related to human perceptual, motor, and cognitive processes and their interactions. The PAC program welcomes a wide range of perspectives and a variety of methodologies (including computational modeling if the goal is to expand explanatory theories of human perception, action, or cognition). PAC strongly encourages proposals that examine human behavior in realistic (or real-world) scenarios and that include varied subject population. It is expected that knowledge gained from PAC-supported projects will have a clear and direct path towards benefitting society. PAC is open to co-review of proposals submitted to other programs both wit...

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