Project Grant 19425953825

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 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $533,853 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for research on the perception and cognition of sound texture. The investigators will develop a computational framework to understand the properties of environmental noises that underlie human perception. This involves assembling a large dataset...

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 $450,028 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research into statistical inference in the auditory system. The project, conducted by The Johns Hopkins University, explores how the brain extracts and organizes auditory information from complex, dynamic soundscapes. The research aims to develop a theoretical framework for statistical inference in auditory processing, supported by behavioral and...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Integrative Activities (IA) program (CFDA 47.083), provides $216,154 to Kansas State University to study the impacts of auditory perceptual learning on working memory skills and cortical dynamics. The grant aims to examine how changes in the brain from auditory training influence memory performance, with plans to measure the effects of trained vs. untrained sounds on working memory fidelity, inhibition, and mental effort....

THE SYNCHRONY STUDY: Music Training Intervention for Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) awarded Lovelace Biomedical Research Institute a Project Grant of $852,356 on September 25, 2025, under the Alcohol Research Programs (CFDA 93.273) to conduct a randomized controlled trial examining music training as an intervention for children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD). The research will be performed in...

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 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...

Federal Grant Award Summary The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $100,228 Project Grant to Indiana University's Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (ACNL) to support predoctoral research investigating the neural mechanisms underlying continuous versus categorical listening strategies in speech perception. The project, titled "Neural Correlates and Functional Benefits of Continuous vs. Categorical Listening," combines behavioral...

This Project Grant award of $471,996 was obligated on July 17, 2025, under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), administered by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). The research project, titled "Auditory Perceptual Processing in the Primate Superior Colliculus," is being conducted through The Research Foundation for the State University of New York and extends through February 14, 2028. The...