This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), is supporting research to investigate how the human auditory cortex processes speech in the presence of background noise. The $303,136 award, spanning December 2024 to December 2027, will enable the University of Rochester to conduct studies using scalp electroencephalography (EEG) and...
This $610,725 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) will support research to characterize the physiological mechanisms contributing to speech comprehension challenges in individuals with sensorineural hearing loss. The key objectives are to: Measure the effects of distorted cochlear tonotopicity on neural coding and perception of speech-in-noise through psychophysical,...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" will support research to investigate the synaptic mechanisms underlying the efferent-mediated enhancement of the cochlear amplifier. The $416,642 award to the University of Rochester, spanning July 2024 to June 2026, will pursue two specific aims: 1) isolating the medial olivocochlear (MOC)...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) supports research to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying the perception of amplitude modulation (AM) and the "modulation filterbank" in human hearing. The $573,385 grant, awarded on July 3, 2024, will fund behavioral and neurophysiological experiments in an animal model...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) supports research to investigate the neural mechanisms that enable recovery of sound localization abilities after hearing loss. The $147,486 award to Emory University will fund a study to record neural activity in the auditory cortex and inferior colliculus of mice over the course of behavioral recovery from unilateral hearing...
This Project Grant award 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 provide $193,750 to The Johns Hopkins University to investigate neural mechanisms underlying implicit learning of complex auditory patterns. The research will use two-photon calcium imaging and optogenetic techniques in awake mice to characterize the neural dynamics and identify relevant circuits...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $262,001 Project Grant (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) to the University of Colorado-Denver from September 30, 2024 to April 30, 2026. The grant supports research investigating how aging impacts temporal processing in the auditory brainstem and its connection to spatial hearing deficits. The research aims to improve understanding of the neurophysiological mechanisms...
The federal Project Grant award R01DC022777 for $662,162 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 supports research at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) to investigate how individuals with hearing loss, including hearing aid and cochlear implant users, differ from normal-hearing listeners in the binaural fusion of spectral and...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), is providing $693,856 to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) from December 1, 2024 to November 30, 2029. The purpose of this funding is to conduct research to better understand the structure and function of coordinated neural activity in the auditory system of...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), provides $312,898.00 to support research on the cortical role for skilled, sound-guided behavior in mice. The award was granted to New York University School of Medicine, a leading academic medical center and research institution, with a performance period from September 1, 2024 to March 31,...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), provides $521,432 to the University of Rochester to develop a new computational model of the human auditory subcortex. The model will integrate aspects of binaural processing and efferent gain control to investigate masking in complex sounds for both normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners. The research aims to clarify how peripheral changes associated with hearing loss affect neural coding in central binaural nuclei and interact with cochlear gain control, with the goal of informing the development of improved algorithms for restoring normal auditory function through hearing aids and cochlear implants. The project will run from September 30, 2024 to April 30, 2027.