This $145,642 Project Grant, awarded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under CFDA 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders", supports research investigating how arousal states influence the activity of layer 5 neurons in the auditory cortex and the resulting impact on auditory-guided behaviors in mice. The research aims to characterize the arousal-dependent changes to the response properties of distinct layer 5...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will receive $3,076,632 under a three-year Project Grant from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke to conduct research on cortical circuits for the integration of parallel short-latency auditory pathways. The grant will support research from July 2022 through June 2025 under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders program (CFDA 93.853), which funds basic and clinical neuroscience...
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 federal 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) program, will provide $606,548 to the University of Pittsburgh to develop a new brain recording modality called "mesoscopic electrophysiology" for non-human primates. This novel system aims to combine the full-brain coverage and spatial resolution of fMRI with the high temporal...
This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) will support research at the University of Pittsburgh to develop new analytical tools and computational models to understand how the brain selectively processes relevant information and coordinates information flow across brain regions. The project aims to integrate existing datasets on large-scale neural activity and anatomical connectivity...
This Project Grant award, valued at $193,750.00, was made by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders Federal Grant Program (CFDA 93.173). The award supports research into the neural dynamics and circuits within the auditory cortex that enable the implicit learning of complex sounds. The project will use two-photon calcium imaging and optogenetic stimulation techniques in awake mice to...
This $502,742 Project Grant awarded 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 mechanisms underlying how the piriform cortex in the mammalian brain processes and encodes olfactory information. The research aims to uncover fundamental principles of sensory processing and neural coding, which has broad implications for sensory...
This federal 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) program, provides $548,088 to Boston University to investigate the local and long-range cortical circuits underlying tactile perception in mice. The research will use a range of tools, including multi-area two-photon microscopy, neuroanatomy, spatial transcriptomics, and neural perturbation,...
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 $693,856 in funding 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 are to: 1) identify coordinated neural ensembles (CNEs) in the...
This federal Project Grant award of $738,566 from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), under the Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders (CFDA 93.853) program, supports research to define the circuit mechanisms that regulate somatosensory feedback in the brain. The research aims to determine if similar regulatory mechanisms exist to modulate somatosensory signals across the body and different sensory modalities, and how...