ANN ARBOR—New research at the University of Michigan School of Kinesiology will examine the relationship between human cognition and locomotion, thanks to a recently announced $25 million grant awarded to Virginia-based DCS Corp. by the Army Research Laboratory.

Under the five-year contract, DCS and a five-school consortium that includes Michigan’s School of Kinesiology, will establish and operate a collaborative technology alliance in cognition and neuroergonomics. The project will examine human performance in complex military environments but the results will also be able to be applied to civilian contexts.

The other research institutions include the University of California-San Diego Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience, National Chiao Tung University (Taiwan) Brain Research Center, University of Texas-San Antonio Department of Computer Science and University of Osnabr