A nearly $7.5 million grant is heading to the University of West Florida ( UWF ), allowing researchers at the Florida Panhandle campus to study and understand human judgment and decision-making.

The U.S. Office of Naval Research is committing a five-year grant to the school to head up the project that will also involve Artificial Intelligence (AI) modeling. It’s still subject to final negotiations and legal review, but the project is being dubbed “Adaptive Taxonomic Modeling of Variability in Judgement and Decision Making.”

K. Brent Venable , a UWF professor and Director of the Intelligent Systems and Robotics Doctoral Program , will oversee the project. The research is set to center on how people arrive at complex decisions under different conditions and how contributing mo

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