Project Grant 19272803124

This $401,918 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research by the University of Rochester to investigate neural mechanisms underlying how the brain processes complex sounds like speech and music across different timescales. The key objectives are to use computational models and neural recordings from auditory cortex to understand the brain's flexible integration of sound information over...

This $690,650 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050) supports the development and testing of a field-ready, cost-effective sound playback system for conducting eco-acoustic and marine larval settlement studies. The system will enable researchers to easily manipulate and introduce sound cues in field experiments to investigate how sound impacts diverse marine fauna, with a focus on coral reef ecosystems. The 2-year effort will build,...

This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) will support a research agenda and associated studies designed and implemented by the Cognition and Coordination Across the Lifespan in Music (CALM) Lab at the University of South Florida (USF). The award has a performance period from June 1, 2024, to June 30, 2026. As a major public research university, USF has a track...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $619,951 to the University of Rochester to study how the human brain encodes and processes the perception of song. The project leverages advanced experimental methods, including functional MRI and intracranial recordings from neurosurgical patients, to better understand the neural mechanisms underlying song perception. The research aims to differentiate...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the CFDA program "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" (93.173), provides $693,856 to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to conduct research on the structure and function of coordinated neural activity in the auditory system. The key objectives of this 5-year research project are to: 1) Identify coordinated neural...

The National Endowment for the Arts awarded a $300,000 project grant to the Regents of the University of California, San Francisco to support the Sound Health Network. The grant was awarded on July 1, 2021 under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) and will support the Network through June 30, 2022. The Sound Health Network will convene experts in music neuroscience, health, and wellness to identify and promote research findings on how music...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Geosciences Program (CFDA 47.050) provides $249,000 to The Regents of the University of Colorado for a project titled "EAGER: NEW APPROACHES TO INVESTIGATING ELECTROMAGNETIC ION CYCLOTRON (EMIC) WAVES IN EARTH'S MAGNETOSPHERE--LISTENING FOR WAVE STRUCTURE THROUGH SONIFICATION". The project aims to explore the use of sonification techniques (converting data into sound) to study EMIC waves, which are important plasma...

This $422,562 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support research at the University of Michigan to investigate the role of top-down auditory processing in human perception and attention. The goal is to understand how higher brain areas interact with lower auditory centers in the brainstem and midbrain to enable listeners to understand speech in noisy environments. The research will use advanced...

This $406,831 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation, under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program, will support research at Wayne State University exploring sound as an analogue for quantum information science. The research aims to develop classically entangled acoustic waves analogous to quantum bits without quantum fragility through exploiting recently discovered analogies between acoustics, quantum mechanics, and...

This is a $232,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences grant program (CFDA 47.075). The grant supports collaborative research at the University of Maryland, College Park to elucidate the computational and neural mechanisms underlying music enculturation, or how people spontaneously engage with and learn unfamiliar musical cultures. The research combines computational...