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 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 federal Project Grant award of $189,530 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA 93.173, "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders," supports research to study the neural basis of precedence-type sound localization processes, including the Franssen effect. The research project aims to leverage the natural sound preferences of gray treefrogs to conduct behavioral experiments and make extracellular recordings from...
The University of Pittsburgh - Of The Commonwealth System Of Higher Education received a $398,554 Project Grant from 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, titled "CRCNS: CONSERVED NEURAL COMPUTATIONS UNDERLYING COMMUNICATION SOUND RECOGNITION IN RODENTS AND PRIMATES", will support research to determine if the selective encoding of intermediate...
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 federal Project Grant award, totaling $502,742.00 and 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), aims to uncover fundamental principles of sensory processing in the piriform cortex (PCX) of the mammalian brain. The research seeks to understand how the PCX encodes and represents olfactory information, with the goal of advancing knowledge of neural coding and...
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 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....
This $137,305 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA Program 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" aims to investigate the circuit and physiological mechanisms underlying auditory contextual processing and perceptual adaptation. The research will utilize a combination of behavior, electrophysiology, calcium imaging, optogenetics, and network analysis methods to: 1) determine...
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), will support research to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying auditory perception and decision-making in primates. The $307,372 award, spanning from July 2025 to February 2028, will be conducted by the Research Foundation for the State University of New York, a non-profit entity that manages research projects for the SUNY system. The research aims to elucidate the role of the primate superior colliculus in establishing decision criteria for spatial and non-spatial auditory perception. This work is expected to provide fundamental insights into the neural bases of normal hearing in primates, laying the groundwork for future studies on auditory processing disorders.