F.J. McGuigan Early Career Investigator Research Grant on Understanding the Human Mind
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F.J. McGuigan Early Career Investigator Research Grant on Understanding the Human Mind supports early-career scientists’ research linking behavioral and neural perspectives to understand the mind and brain.
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Funder: American Psychological Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): March 2028 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: $15,000; funding for up to 12 months
Summary: Supports early-career psychological scientists conducting empirical or theoretical research connecting behavioral and neural perspectives on mental function.
Key Information: Applicants must hold an accredited doctoral degree and be no more than 10 years postdoctoral.
Description
The American Psychological Foundation (APF) awards this grant biennially to support an early-career psychological scientist pursuing a unified understanding of the human mind and brain. Research may address any aspect of mental function, including cognition, affect, and motivation, but must seek to understand the mind from both behavioral and neural perspectives.
The program supports empirical and/or theoretical research and encourages promising young researchers to pursue careers in related fields. It emphasizes alignment with these goals, research quality, innovation, contribution to the field, and the investigator’s ability to carry out the work. Previously supported projects have examined how information transforms from perception to memory and how cognition integrates with autonomic oscillations.
