This Project Grant award of $353,391.00, provided by the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research), aims to validate the use of a "Personal Learning Curve" paradigm as a sensitive marker of early memory decline related to Alzheimer's disease (AD) biomarkers in a large, diverse sample of older adults. The study seeks to determine if this digital cognitive assessment tool, which measures learning over repeated evaluations, can detect subtle AD-related memory failures...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA), under the Aging Research Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.866), awarded a $354,727 project grant to the University of Chicago to develop a new Computerized Adaptive Test (CAT) called the CAT-COG to assess cognitive function. The CAT-COG will provide a precise, efficient, and remotely-administered evaluation of global cognitive ability and five specific cognitive subdomains, including episodic memory, language/semantic memory, processing speed, attentional...
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 (CFDA 93.173) program, provides $108,512 to support research on improving language production and recovery in individuals with post-stroke aphasia. The research aims to use network control theory to model brain regions and connectivity, and determine how brain network properties influence language production in...
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 $429,000 to The Medical College of Wisconsin, Inc. to conduct research aimed at enhancing language recovery and quality of life for stroke survivors with aphasia (SWA). The key products and services to be delivered include: Establishing a causal relationship between neural...
This Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $2,731,341, was provided by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders (CFDA 93.173) program. The award supports a research project to study the effects of Continuous Theta Burst Stimulation (cTBS), a type of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS), combined with a modified form of Constraint Induced Language Therapy (MCILT) in 63...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the CFDA 93.173 Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program, provides $146,816.00 to the University of Texas at Austin to assess semantic encoding and decoding models for improving communication in people with stroke-induced aphasia. The key objectives are to: 1) adapt existing semantic decoding approaches for individuals with aphasia, 2) develop semantic...
This federal Project Grant award of $404,212 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 whether Aphasia Identification (ID) cards can improve unfamiliar communication partners' comprehension of individuals with aphasia. The award will fund a randomized controlled trial enrolling 160 service workers to evaluate the impact of Aphasia ID cards on the...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $1,330,971 Project Grant (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) to Trustees of Boston University. The goal of this 2-year project is to investigate whether transcranial alternating current stimulation (TACS) can enhance speech intelligibility and reduce listening effort in older adults struggling with speech-on-speech...
This $428,883 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) aims to examine the effects of individualized transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) on phonological short-term memory performance in chronic stroke survivors with aphasia. The key objectives are to identify optimal tACS targets, frequency, and electric field coverage based on...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $318,850 will fund research at the University of California, Los Angeles from May 2022 to April 2025 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The research aims to improve speech technology and develop automated oral literacy assessments to better support learning outcomes for young African American English-speaking children. Specifically, the university researchers will develop data augmentation and...