This Project Grant award of $187,297 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 fund research to identify the acoustic and perceptual effects of speech amplification devices for individuals with Parkinson's disease. The goal is to quantify the benefits of using these devices, both alone and in combination with behavioral speech strategies, to improve...
The federal Project Grant award of $227,211 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under CFDA program 93.173 "Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders", will fund research to investigate the neurocomputational mechanisms underlying speech sensorimotor adaptation. The project aims to translate a behavioral paradigm known to uncover multiple learning processes across motor domains to the speech domain, and to assess the neural...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,712,894 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 fund research to establish the efficacy of listener training as a clinical intervention to improve intelligibility for people with Parkinson's disease (PD) and their communication partners. The project aims to: 1) examine immediate acquisition and retention of...
This $307,372 Project Grant was 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). The grant will fund research to investigate the neural mechanisms supporting decision criteria for auditory perception in the primate superior colliculus. The research will combine innovative psychophysical techniques, neural recordings, and causal brain manipulations in a nonhuman primate...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) under CFDA 93.853 - Extramural Research Programs in the Neurosciences and Neurological Disorders provides $163,184 to New York University School of Medicine to investigate the relationship between cortical planning activity and disordered spoken interaction. The research aims to study how neuropathologies like Parkinson's disease impact speech planning and function, as well as the effects of...
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), will support research to investigate vocal dysfunction and vagally mediated brainstem pathology in the prodromal stage of Parkinson's disease. The $126,442 award to the University of Wisconsin - Madison will fund a study using a rat model with a PINK1 gene knockout to evaluate differences in vocal,...
This Project Grant award, totaling $159,116, was 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 grant aims to explore patterns in speech perception and production abilities among children with a history of late talking, and whether these skills predict later phonological development and the presence of speech-sound disorders (SSD). Key research activities...
The University of Rochester received a Project Grant award for $303,136.00 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173). The grant will fund research to investigate how the human auditory cortex integrates speech information in the presence of background noise, using scalp and intracranial EEG recordings. The research aims to enhance understanding of temporal processing...
The National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) awarded a $108,512 Project Grant under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173) to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. The grant supports research to better understand how the brain controls language production and how brain network properties can be leveraged to improve neuromodulation therapies for post-stroke aphasia. Specifically, the research will use network...
This federal Project Grant award of $610,725.00 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 grant will fund research to characterize the effects of distorted tonotopy and central plasticity on neural coding and perception of speech-in-noise for individuals with sensorineural hearing loss. The research aims to develop personalized hearing loss profiles...