This $649,812 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to examine how the brain processes and organizes language input that lacks a temporal sequence, such as rapidly flashed written stimuli. The primary awardee, New York University (NYU), will use magnetoencephalography (MEG) to investigate the spatiotemporal dynamics of syntactic and semantic computations when language is conveyed without...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $887,831 Project Grant under its STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. The grant, awarded on September 1, 2023, will fund a collaborative research effort to study the neurological factors underlying individual variability in auditory learning and second-language acquisition. The research will integrate attention monitoring via pupil dilation and neuromodulation through vagus nerve stimulation to...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will provide $250,000 from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028 to New York University (NYU) to study the neural bases of bilingual language production. Through a series of magnetoencephalography (MEG) experiments, the project will examine how the brain processes the use of morphological rules in producing words across multiple languages. The research aims to characterize the...
This $440,610 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 fund a study investigating the neural signals required for error-based motor learning. The study, led by Yale University, will examine whether predictive processing is a fundamental and universal computation of the motor system, testing this hypothesis in both...
This federal Project Grant award of $470,594 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 identify the neural circuits and synaptic plasticity mechanisms underlying vocal memory and imitation learning. The primary objectives are to use advanced neuroscience techniques, including optogenetics and synaptic mapping, to define the specific cell...
This $132,867 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), supports research to better understand how individual differences in statistical learning impact the transfer of information from spoken language to written text during early reading development. The principal investigator at Yale University will use electroencephalography (EEG) to identify...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $286,000 to The General Hospital Corporation, doing business as Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), to study how the brain processes spoken words over time. The project examines how the brain recognizes words that contain the same sounds in different sequential orders, such as "pat" and "tap", and how linguistic factors...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), awarded a $1,155,143 Project Grant (CFDA 93.853 - Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders) to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to support research on "Subcortico-Cortical Mechanisms of Sensorimotor Coordination, Integration, and Learning." The project period runs from May 15, 2024 to April 30, 2032. Through this...
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 $250,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research on the role of the cortico-striatal system in implicit sound category learning. The project aims to investigate how rhythmic presentation of new sound categories can engage the brain's implicit, reward-based learning system to enhance adults' ability to learn new speech sounds. Using a combination of behavioral tasks,...