José L. Contreras-Vidal, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Behavioral and Computational Neuroscience

Grant Funding

NIH, Office of the Director, Contreras-Vidal (PI), Multiple PI grant with Jane Clark and Yiannis Aloimonos. HAL: A TOOL FOR ASSESSING HUMAN ACTION IN THE WORKPLACE, $889,060; 9/15/07-9/14/10.

Army Research Office, Department of Defense, Co-Investigator (B. Hatfield, PI). Brain Processes and Precision Psychomotor Performance under Stress; $400,000; 11/1/2005-6/30/2008.

National Institutes of Health, Co-investigator (B. Hatfield, PI). Age, Physical Activity, Genotype and Cognitive Function, $300,000; 9/1/06-8/31/08.

National Academies Keck Futures Initiatives, Principal Investigator for UMD portion (Co- PIs: P. Shewokis (Drexel), O'Malley (Rice), Gillespie (Michigan, prime). Feedback Control for Smart Prosthetics, $75,000; 2/1/07-4/1/08.

National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders, Principal
Investigator (Contract). Computational Modeling of Auditory Vocal-Motor Transformations; $40,000; 10/1/07-8/30/09.
National Institutes of Health (R01 HD042527-01), Adaptive sensory-motor control in children with DCD. Co-PI: Jose L. Contreras-Vidal, Ph.D. (Principal Investigator: Jane Clark, Ph.D.) Period: 7/1/02-6/30/07 ($1,682,610).

DOD/Air Force #05185047. The Maryland Large-Scale Neurocognitive Architecture. Co- Principal Investigator/CO-Director (PI: Dr. James Reggia). 09/22/2005 - 08/21/2007
($482,954).

National Institutes of Health (NIDCD contract no. 263-MD-217475), Modeling of neural dynamics and motor psychophysics of finger movement control. Principal Investigator: Jose L. Contreras-Vidal, Ph.D. Period: 9/30/02-10/30/07 ($ 158,688).

Lockheed Martin NE & SS Undersea Systems-Manassas Award, Contract # L47-KKM- UMD-0468, Principal Investigator. Motion Analysis of the Lockheed Martin TEMTS Device. Task Order I: Pilot Studies on the Transcutaneous Electrical Movement Timing Stimulator (TEMTS) for Treatment of Movement Impairment in Parkinson's Disease. 9/03- 8/04 ($43,956).

National Institutes of Health (RO3 AG19418-01), Effects of aging on visuomotor adaptation. Principal Investigator: Jose L. Contreras-Vidal, Ph.D. Period: 8/1/02-12/31/02 ($71,389).

University of Maryland General Research Board Award
Coding of movement direction and distance in visuomotor adaptation. Principal Investigator: Jose L. Contreras-Vidal, Ph.D. Period: Summer 2000, $6,250.00.

CEDETEL (Spain)
Bio-robotics for grasping and manipulation. Principal Investigator: Jose L. Contreras-Vidal, Ph.D., MSEE. Period: 10/1999-5/2000, $12,000.

International Human Frontier Science Fellowship
Neural dynamics of reward-mediated learning, motivation, and orienting behavior. Host: Prof. Wolfram Schult, University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Period: Summer 1996.