Project Grant N000142012709

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 three-year, $551,413 National Science Foundation project grant supports research into the origin of large brains in cetaceans. Funded under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050), the award to Northeast Ohio Medical University will analyze fossil collections to identify factors contributing to brain size expansion in early whales. Researchers will test the hypothesis that the acquisition of echolocation led to increases in brain size by studying changes in ear shape over time. They will also...

This $401,918 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research by the University of Rochester to investigate neural mechanisms underlying how the brain processes complex sounds like speech and music across different timescales. The key objectives are to use computational models and neural recordings from auditory cortex to understand the brain's flexible integration of sound information over...

The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke has awarded Albert Einstein College of Medicine a $2,923,021 Project Grant under the 21st Century Cures Act - Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative (CFDA 93.372). The grant, titled "Integrative Analysis of Adaptive Information Processing and Learning-Dependent Circuit Reorganization in the Auditory System," will fund research to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying auditory...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the federal Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), provides $147,486 to Emory University to study the neural mechanisms underlying recovery of sound localization after unilateral hearing loss in mice. The research aims to determine how changes in neural activity in the auditory cortex and inferior colliculus drive behavioral recovery of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $450,028 to The Johns Hopkins University to conduct research on statistical inference in auditory processing. The research aims to develop a theoretical framework for how the brain tracks complex statistical relationships and temporal dependencies in sound sequences to guide auditory perception. It will use computational modeling, behavioral testing, and...

This $594,286 Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) federal grant program, will support research to explore the functional logic of local circuits in auditory and parietal cortices. The key research objectives are to: Compare the spatial and functional structure of excitatory impacts on local populations in primary auditory cortex (A1) and...

This $422,562 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support research at the University of Michigan to investigate the role of top-down auditory processing in human perception and attention. The goal is to understand how higher brain areas interact with lower auditory centers in the brainstem and midbrain to enable listeners to understand speech in noisy environments. The research will use advanced...

This Project Grant award of $225,307 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to understand how the brain extracts meaning from sounds and integrates this information with other senses, primarily vision. The project aims to test a hypothesis about auditory semantic alignment, which proposes that cortical areas specialize in processing particular categories of sounds and pass that information to a broader amodal...

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...