This federal Project Grant award of $193,750.00, provided 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 fund research to investigate neural dynamics and circuits in the auditory cortex during implicit learning of complex sounds. The research, conducted by The Johns Hopkins University, aims to gain a comprehensive understanding of the neural mechanisms underlying the...
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,...
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...
This federal Project Grant award of $600,000.00 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the CFDA program "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" (93.173), supports research on auditory-motor interactions in neural processing and the frequency-following response. The research aims to investigate how the human auditory system balances the competing functions of attenuating self-generated sounds while remaining vigilant...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $521,432 Project Grant under the CFDA 93.173 Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program to the University of Rochester. The grant supports the development of a new computational model of the human auditory subcortex that integrates binaural processing and efferent gain control to investigate masking in complex sounds for both normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners. The research...
This federal Project Grant award of $307,372 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under their "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" program (CFDA 93.173), supports research on auditory perceptual processing in the primate superior colliculus. The research aims to determine the neural mechanisms that underlie decision criteria for auditory perception in primates, focusing on both spatial and non-spatial auditory...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $147,486 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, doing business as Clinical Practices of the University of Pennsylvania. The goal of this 2.5-year project is to identify the circuit mechanisms responsible for contrast-dependent perceptual changes and neuronal gain adaptation in the primary auditory...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $392,040 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to Colorado State University. The grant will fund research to causally test how hormones affect the development and activation of neural circuits that drive auditory processing. The proposed research combines molecular and electrophysiological approaches to examine neuroendocrine modulation of...
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), will fund research to examine how the human auditory cortex integrates speech information in the presence of background noise. The $303,136 award, effective from December 2, 2024 to December 31, 2027, will be conducted by the University of Rochester. The research aims to use scalp and...
This federal Project Grant award of $610,725.00 was provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173). The grant will fund research at the University of Pittsburgh to investigate physiological mechanisms that contribute to suprathreshold deficits in speech understanding for individuals with sensorineural hearing loss. The key research activities include:...
This federal Project Grant award for $146,206, awarded on December 15, 2024 by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), supports research on the "Cortical and Subcortical Dynamics in the Central Auditory System Across Learning and Overtraining". The project, which runs through August 15, 2027, aims to investigate how the auditory cortex interacts with subcortical regions like the medial geniculate body and inferior colliculus to support auditory learning and memory consolidation. The research will utilize advanced techniques like two-photon mesoscopic imaging and optogenetics to track neural activity across the auditory system in mice as they learn and become experts at an auditory go/no-go task. The findings are expected to enhance understanding of the cortical-subcortical dynamics underlying auditory skill acquisition and long-term storage of auditory-motor associations. This grant is funded under the NIDCD's "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" program (CFDA 93.173), which supports scientific investigations into human communication processes and disorders.