This federal Project Grant award, ID R01DC022604, is 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). The $430,605 grant aims to support research investigating how songbirds' brains form auditory memories used to guide their vocal learning and production. The research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will explore the neural mechanisms underlying...
This Project Grant award, 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), supports the development of computational models to replicate human auditory abilities and facilitate improved prosthetic devices and therapeutic interventions for hearing impairment and related communication disorders. The $417,741 award to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.074 - Biological Sciences) to Cornell University totals $421,321 and runs from January 15, 2024 to December 31, 2026. The grant funds research to investigate the function of acoustic fine structure (AFS) in natural zebra finch communication, with the goal of better understanding the perceptual abilities and communicative behaviors of birds compared to humans. Key research activities include: (1) determining whether perception...
This $369,108 Project Grant was awarded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the federal Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173). The award funds the development of a new computational model of the human auditory subcortex to investigate how binaural coding and efferent gain control affect the perception of complex sounds, including in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners. The model simulates...
The University of Pittsburgh received a $398,554 Project Grant 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). The grant, titled "CRCNS: Conserved Neural Computations Underlying Communication Sound Recognition in Rodents and Primates," aims to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying the recognition of communication sounds across different mammalian...
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), supports scientific research to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying auditory implicit learning in mice. The $193,750 award to The Johns Hopkins University will fund a 3-year study using two-photon calcium imaging and optogenetic techniques to map the neural dynamics and circuits in the...
This federal Project Grant award of $464,268 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 neural sensorimotor mechanisms underlying speech fluency in individuals who stutter. The research will use magnetoencephalography (MEG) imaging to examine key indicators of speech sensorimotor function, including pre-speech auditory modulation,...
This federal Project Grant award of $693,856 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 on the structure and function of coordinated neural activity in the auditory system of awake mice. The research, conducted by the Regents of the University of California, San Francisco, aims to identify and characterize coordinated neural ensembles in the...
This Project Grant award of $189,530 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA Program 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders" will support research into the neural basis of precedence-type sound localization processes, including the Franssen Effect. The award will fund behavioral experiments using gray treefrogs to study how the precedence effect occurs, as well as extracellular recordings from the inferior...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $610,725 Project Grant (CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) to the University of Pittsburgh to conduct research on physiological mechanisms contributing to challenges faced by individuals with sensorineural hearing loss in understanding speech, especially in noisy environments. The research program aims to characterize the effects of distorted cochlear tonotopicity and...