Project Grant F31DC021868

This federal Project Grant award of $312,898 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 support research at New York University (NYU) to investigate the role of the auditory cortex in skilled, sound-guided behavior in mice. The project aims to develop a novel mouse behavioral paradigm that requires real-time acoustic feedback to guide skilled forelimb movements, and then explore how the auditory cortex integrates acoustic, motor, and goal-directed information during this sensorimotor task. The research will examine the neural mechanisms underlying error detection and learning from performance mistakes, with the goal of advancing understanding of predictive processing in sensory cortex and informing future research on how the brain processes sensory error information to update behavior during skilled learning. The project period runs from September 1, 2024 to March 31, 2027.