The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $295,840 project grant (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) to The House Institute Foundation in Los Angeles, California. The 3-year grant (Award ID: R21DC022555, 5/1/2025 - 4/30/2028) will fund research to examine the effects of background noise on real-time speech processing efficiency in school-age children with normal hearing and children using hearing aids. The study...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $415,717 Project Grant (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) to the University of Wisconsin - Madison to develop and test eye-gaze paradigms for assessing language comprehension and learning in children with severe cerebral palsy and speech impairments. The goal is to provide more detailed and sensitive information than traditional behavioral tests, which could lead to more...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $400,644 Project Grant under CFDA 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" to the University of Houston System. The grant aims to investigate the use of speech entrainment, which measures how conversational partners align their speech patterns, as a quantifiable metric to predict conversational outcomes for autistic adolescents. The project seeks to gain a comprehensive...
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 $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 $1,330,971 Project Grant under the CFDA 93.173 Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program to the Trustees of Boston University. The goal of this 2-year project is to investigate the potential of transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) to enhance speech intelligibility and reduce listening effort in older adults struggling with speech-on-speech understanding, both during and...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $154,568 Project Grant (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) to the University of Southern California (USC) to conduct research on "Human Cochlear Masking and Suppression Measured Using Dynamic Stimuli." The award period runs from December 31, 2024 to June 30, 2025. Through this grant, USC will perform research to investigate solutions to problems relevant to...
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 $251,856 to New York University from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026. The funding supports research investigating the neuroplastic processes underlying early adaptation to cochlear implants, which restore hearing and speech perception in individuals with severe or profound...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $430,605 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The award will fund a 5-year research project to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying vocal learning and imitation in songbirds, which serve as a model system for understanding human speech and language acquisition. Key objectives include...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a 5-year, $409,280 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to The Trustees of Princeton University. The grant will fund the "CRCNS: Building and Testing Computational Models of the Neural Basis of Natural Communication" project, which aims to: Create a dataset of 750 hours of continuous electrocorticography (ECoG) data from epilepsy...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $162,448 Project Grant under the CFDA 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" program to the Children's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The grant will fund a longitudinal study to evaluate neural speech tracking (NST) in full-term infants at 1, 6, and 12 months of age. The study aims to examine the developmental trajectory of NST and its relationship to hearing, environmental factors, and language outcomes. The central hypothesis is that NST will be modulated by age, hearing, and environmental factors, and that NST will correlate with later language development. The expected outcomes are that hearing and environmental factors will impact NST, and that NST will serve as a neural biomarker for language acquisition. This research seeks to advance the understanding of speech processing in the infant brain and improve the clinical management of infants and children with hearing loss.