This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $450,028 to The Johns Hopkins University to conduct research on statistical inference in auditory processing. The research aims to develop a theoretical framework for how the brain tracks complex statistical relationships and temporal dependencies in sound sequences to guide auditory perception. It will use computational modeling, behavioral testing, and...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Integrative Organismal Systems awarded a $1,533,393 Project Grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) program. The project will study the impact of road traffic noise, particularly substrate-borne vibrations, on spider behavior and ecology. Key activities include: Measuring air- and substrate-borne noise levels in the field to map noise impacts in national parks. Conducting laboratory...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074) provides $939,752 to Washington State University to conduct a 5-year research project titled "INTBIO: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: PHENOTYPES OF THE ANTHROPOCENE: INTEGRATING THE CONSEQUENCES OF SENSORY STRESSORS ACROSS BIOLOGICAL SCALES." The research aims to (1) reveal whether noise and light pollution consistently select for similar avian phenotypes across six bird species,...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $755,461 Project Grant under the SBE-UKRI Lead Agency Opportunity (CFDA 47.075 Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) to The University of Iowa for the project "Neural Mechanisms for Auditory Memory Sequencing and Prediction." This binational, collaborative research aims to better understand memory and prediction in the human and non-human primate brain. The project will directly compare cross-species data on auditory processing and...
The University of Iowa was awarded a $750,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to conduct research measuring and mathematically modeling ionic transport in auditory systems from April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2024. The grant was awarded under the National Science Foundation's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which aims to promote progress in the biological sciences and strengthen the nation's scientific enterprise through increasing scientific knowledge and enhancing...
Duke University was awarded a $792,127 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Emerging Frontiers under the NSF Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074). The grant will fund a collaborative research project titled "INTBIO: Collaborative Research: Phenotypes of the Anthropocene: Integrating the Consequences of Sensory Stressors Across Biological Scales." The project will examine the physiological, behavioral, and fitness responses of six bird species to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $138,000 Project Grant to support research under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074) from July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. The grant funds postdoctoral research examining the neural integration of acoustic signals across reproductive states in female birds. Consistent with the program's goal of advancing the biological sciences, this award will enhance understanding of how the brain processes sounds differently during breeding...
This National Science Foundation project grant award of $574,372 provides funding from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024 to develop and test a new acoustic monitoring method for remotely estimating animal population sizes under the Biological Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.074). The University of New Hampshire will use sound to track population changes over time for Adélie penguins and gray bats. The goals are to reduce hands-on effort for counting animals, increase the frequency...
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 Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) in the amount of $2,433,859 supports research at The Johns Hopkins University to investigate age-related hearing loss and cognitive decline. The key objectives are to study the molecular, cellular, and connectivity changes in the central auditory system during normal aging and Alzheimer's disease, with the goal of developing targeted therapeutic strategies. The research integrates single-cell sequencing,...