Project Grant N000142412449

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $1,646,782 in funding to Trustees of Boston University over 5 years to develop a brain-inspired algorithm for complex scene analysis. The key products and services being delivered include: The research integrates three interdisciplinary threads to develop this algorithm: Using brain imaging and machine learning to decode...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $576,027 to the University of California, Berkeley to conduct research on how the brain extracts meaning from sounds and integrates auditory information with other sensory inputs. The key objectives of the project are to test the "auditory semantic alignment hypothesis" using fMRI to understand the cortical areas responsible for auditory processing...

This $352,724 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program aims to investigate how long-term exposure to different speech environments shapes auditory perception and brain activity. Using auditory perception tasks and non-invasive brain recordings, the project will compare how speakers of languages with varying sound complexity process key speech features. The research will employ artificial...

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...

This $450,028 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research into statistical inference in the auditory system. The project, conducted by The Johns Hopkins University, explores how the brain extracts and organizes auditory information from complex, dynamic soundscapes. The research aims to develop a theoretical framework for statistical inference in auditory processing, supported by behavioral and...

This Project Grant award of $1,999,999.00, funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research inspired by auditory perception in the human brain. The project aims to develop mathematical models to describe neural computations underlying the brain's remarkable ability to focus attention and enhance specific auditory signals while suppressing surrounding noise - a phenomenon known as the Cocktail Party Problem. The research involves engineering...

This federal Project Grant award of $147,486, 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 support research to investigate the neural circuitry involved in the categorization of auditory stimuli in mice. The primary objectives are to examine auditory cortical population dynamics during the categorization of unfamiliar pure tones, identify relevant neural...

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...

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 from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $533,853 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for research on the perception and cognition of sound texture. The investigators will develop a computational framework to understand the properties of environmental noises that underlie human perception. This involves assembling a large dataset...