Krasnow Institute for Advanced StudyPhone: 703-993-4333 The Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study seeks to expand understanding of mind, brain, and intelligence by encouraging research at the intersection of the separate fields of cognitive psychology, neurobiology, and the computer-driven study of artificial intelligence and complex adaptive systems. These separate disciplines increasingly overlap and promise progressively deeper insight into human thought processes. The institute also examines how new insights from cognitive science research can be applied for human benefit in the areas of mental health, neurological disease, education, and computer design. Krasnow was chartered in 1990 as a private nonprofit Virginia corporation and merged with George Mason University in 2002, becoming a chartered institute under the Office of the Provost. With an annual budget of $2.4 million, the institute is home to a scientific staff of 50. Cogni tive research at the institute spans from molecules to mind. Krasnow scientists have published extensively in the most prestigious scholarly journals and collectively have brought in more than $13.2 million dollars in sponsored research from federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health, as well as from private sources such as the Whitaker Foundation. |
