José L. Contreras-Vidal, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Behavioral and Computational Neuroscience

Grant Funding

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).

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: 9/30/02-10/30/03 ($ 25,628).

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).

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (Pending):
The ramifications of disordered kinesthesia in Parkinsonism.
Principal Investigator: Jose L. Contreras-Vidal, Ph.D., MSEE. Co-PI: Dr. Daniel Bullock (Boston University). Period: 4/2003 to 3/2008, $1, 561,598.00.

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.