Martin Wiener, Associate Professor, Psychology, College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS), received funding for the study: “CRCNS US-Israel Research Proposal: NSF-BSF: The Perception of Time and Memorability in the Visual Hierarchy.”
Dr. Wiener is collaborating with Ayelet Landau, Associate Professor, Cognitive Science and Psychology, Hebrew University, and Yuval Benjamini, Associate Professor, Statistics and Data Science, Hebrew University.
Dr. Wiener will conduct research at George Mason in consultation with the co-principal investigators, who will be conducting their own projects.
The general scope of the project is to investigate the perception of time and image memorability, using a diverse set of methods, including functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, electroencephalography, and eye-tracking. A combination of experiments will be conducted both at George Mason and Hebrew University.
The researchers estimate this project will last four years. They will use part of the funding for this project to fund a postdoctoral researcher, who will be based at George Mason.
Dr. Wiener will oversee all aspects of the project at George Mason. He will also be responsible for the training of the postdoctoral researcher. He will use part of the funds to cover travel for presentations at national and international conferences.
Dr. Wiener received $734,430 from the National Science Foundation for this award. Funding began in Sept. 2025 and will end in late Aug. 2029.
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