Block Grant F31DC007282

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), supports research to develop a computational model that mimics how the human brain detects and repairs speech errors. The $686,537 project, awarded to Trustees of Indiana University, will build the largest publicly available multilingual database of speech errors and repairs across four languages - English,...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA Program 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" will support the development and testing of a neurocomputational model to quantitatively characterize the speech motor skillsets of individual speakers. The $681,385 award to Trustees of Boston University will fund experiments involving behavioral, neurostimulation, and neuroimaging studies with...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences supports research at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying speech production. The project aims to generate a functional map of the brain systems that enable fluent speech, with the goal of improving diagnosis and treatment of speech production deficits. The $965,471 award, effective August 1, 2023 through July 31, 2026,...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences provides $245,398 to support research estimating articulatory constriction place and timing from speech acoustics under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The award funds development of a speech inversion tool to recover details of articulatory movements from acoustic speech recordings using machine learning methods. Researchers will extend...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $286,000 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program to The General Hospital Corporation (Massachusetts General Hospital) to study how the brain processes spoken words containing the same phonemes in different temporal orders. The project examines how linguistic factors like coarticulation and sentence context affect how human listeners recognize words with the same phonemes (e.g. "pat" vs....

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences provides $124,539 to support research examining the links between perception and production of second language speech sounds over time. Funded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the two-year award to the University of Texas at Austin will lay the foundation for developing a comprehensive model of second language sound learning. Researchers will train...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences grant awarded to the University of Oregon provides $249,957 from September 15, 2023 to August 31, 2026 to study how language and speech motor processes, such as speech-related breathing, interact during speaking. The project aims to advance psycholinguistic theory and understanding of communication disorders by examining the relationship between language planning and breathing patterns in both school-aged...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $433,242 Project Grant to The Washington University under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The three-year award will support research modeling the cognitive challenges of accented speech. The research team will conduct experiments measuring cognitive processing during listening to accented speech using methods from listening effort literature and behavioral economics. Eye-tracking will test if listeners...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $132,291 to the University of Chicago to conduct a longitudinal study examining the relationship between sound perception and sound production in second language learning. The goal is to better understand how these skills develop over time and interact, which will help inform more effective pronunciation training methods for language learners. The study will...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $409,956.00 to The Research Foundation For The State University Of New York (RF SUNY) to investigate the perception and imitation of speech and song. The research aims to understand why the ability to imitate speech and song comes easily for most people but is difficult for others, even though they involve coordinating the same motor and...