This $594,286 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 support research to explore the functional logic of local circuits in auditory and parietal cortices. The key research objectives are to: Compare the spatial and functional structure of excitatory impacts on local populations in primary auditory cortex (A1) and...
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke has awarded Albert Einstein College of Medicine a $2,923,021 Project Grant under the 21st Century Cures Act - Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative (CFDA 93.372). The grant, titled "Integrative Analysis of Adaptive Information Processing and Learning-Dependent Circuit Reorganization in the Auditory System," will fund research to investigate the neural mechanisms underlying auditory...
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 $312,898 to New York University School of Medicine to investigate the role of the auditory cortex in skilled, sound-generating behavior in mice. The project aims to develop a novel closed-loop, sound-guided behavior task that requires mice to use real-time acoustic feedback to guide...
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 at The Johns Hopkins University to investigate the neural dynamics and circuits in the auditory cortex that enable implicit learning of complex sounds. The $193,750 award, effective from April 1, 2025 to March 31, 2028, will fund studies using two-photon calcium imaging and...
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill received a $800,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on May 1, 2021 to fund research exploring the interaction of cholinergic and dopaminergic modulation underlying associative learning. The research is being conducted under the NSF's Biological Sciences program (CFDA 47.074), which supports basic scientific research to advance understanding of major problems and strengthen the nation's biological research enterprise....
This Project Grant award of $1,841,384.00 from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD, CFDA 93.173 - Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders) supports research to determine how cholinergic signaling influences auditory processing in the inferior colliculus (IC) of the brain. The award aims to provide a functional and ultrastructural map of how cholinergic signaling alters excitability in distinct populations of IC neurons and their synaptic...
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 $147,486 to Emory University to conduct research on the neural mechanisms enabling recovery of sound localization abilities after unilateral hearing loss in mice. The key objectives are to: 1) Determine how auditory cortex and inferior colliculus regions recover spatial tuning after...
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 $416,750 federal Project Grant was awarded by the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) on September 24, 2024. The grant supports the development of a novel computational model to understand the control mechanism underlying functional dynamics in the human brain. The project aims to elucidate the relationship between brain controllability and cognitive functions like visual working memory and auditory verbal...
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), will provide $693,856.00 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 of mice. The 5-year project aims to use high-channel-count electrophysiology, optogenetics,...