Funder: American Psychological Foundation
Due Dates: June 5, 2028 (Application deadline, 11:59 p.m. Hawaii Time)
Funding Amounts: Typically one year of project support; funds must be spent within 12 months of payment
Summary: Supports early-career researchers pursuing empirical or theoretical research that unifies behavioral and neural understanding of the human mind.
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 biennial grant to recognize and support an early-career psychological scientist investigating mental function from both behavioral and neural perspectives. Research may address any aspect of mental function, including cognition, affect, and motivation. The program supports empirical and/or theoretical work that advances a unified understanding of the human mind and brain.
The grant also encourages promising young researchers to pursue careers in related fields. Its priorities include alignment with the program’s goals, research quality, innovation, contribution to the field, and the investigator’s capacity to carry out the work. Previously supported projects have examined how information transforms from perception to memory and how cognition and autonomic oscillations are integrated.
