Project Grant 1509791

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 Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), will provide $146,816 to the University of Texas at Austin to assess semantic encoding and decoding models for improving communication in people with aphasia. The key objectives are to: 1) adapt existing semantic decoding approaches for people with aphasia, 2) develop semantic decoding approaches that...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), aims to develop and test eye-gaze paradigms to measure receptive language and learning abilities in children with severe cerebral palsy and speech impairment. The $415,717 award, spanning June 2025 to May 2027, will allow the University of Wisconsin-Madison to characterize lexical processing and novel...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $457,873 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop new technology that enhances communication and interaction for individuals with severe disabilities. The key objectives are to build and test a novel user interface that leverages multiple information sources, such as eye gaze, language models, behavior...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the federal Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), aims to enhance language recovery and quality of life for stroke survivors with aphasia (SWA). The $429,000 grant will fund research to evaluate the use of excitatory theta burst stimulation (TBS), a form of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, combined with a linguistically-motivated...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences provides $140,351 to fund research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: PROSODIC ANALYSIS AND VISUALIZATION OF PHONETIC SAMPLES FOR IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF STRESS AND INTONATION." The research will be conducted by the University of Washington from September 2021 through February 2025. The grant supports work under the NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA...

This Project Grant award of $187,297.00, funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), aims to identify the relationship between acoustic and perceptual consequences of speech amplification devices for individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD). The key objectives are to: 1) Quantify the acoustic and auditory-perceptual effects of speech amplification devices for PD...

The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a 5-year, $409,280 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to The Trustees of Princeton University. The grant will fund the "CRCNS: Building and Testing Computational Models of the Neural Basis of Natural Communication" project, which aims to: Create a dataset of 750 hours of continuous electrocorticography (ECoG) data from epilepsy...

This $608,826 Project Grant awarded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) will develop a new class of wireless, skin-conformable, and dual-sensing wearable system to monitor voice and upper airway (VUA) health. The key products and services to be delivered include: A single neck-worn wearable device that uses neck surface accelerometry and surface electromyography to...

This three-year, $399,918 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to develop flexible deep speech synthesis through gestural modeling. Awarded to Carnegie Mellon University on October 1, 2021 and set to conclude on September 30, 2024, the grant supports collaborative research between Carnegie Mellon and the University of California, Berkeley. Specifically, the universities will explicitly introduce mechanistic aspects...