2020 Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication Gordon Research Conference and Seminar

2020年声学交流的神经机制戈登研究会议暨研讨会

• 批准号: 9980608
• 负责人: MICHAEL A LONG
• 金额: $ 3.7万
• 依托单位: GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2022-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9980608
• 关键词: Acoustics; Address; Affect; American; Animals; Auditory; Behavior; Biological Models; Brain; Callithrix; Child Care; Clinic; Code; Collaborations; Communication; Communication Research; Communication impairment; Communities; Country; Courtship; Development; Disease; Environment; Equilibrium; Event; Fishes; Fostering; Functional disorder; Gender; Gryllidae; Hour; Human; Individual; Injury; Laboratory Animals; Language; Learning; Mission; Neurophysiology - biologic function; Organism; Perception; Process; Production; Rana; Reproduction; Research; Research Personnel; Scientist; Signal Transduction; Songbirds; Speech; Speech Disorders; Stroke; System; Thinking; Time; Translations; Underrepresented Minority; United States National Institutes of Health; Woman; autism spectrum disorder; career; comparative; experience; genomic predictors; insight; lectures; meetings; neural circuit; neuromechanism; next generation; novel; novel therapeutic intervention; posters; programs; relating to nervous system; segregation; social; symposium; unpublished works; zebra finch

Project Summary/Abstract: Different species often feature distinct communication strategies for the production and perception of acoustic social signals, and a comparative approach to the study of the neural mechanisms underlying acoustic communication can lend insight into general mechanisms of neural function. A more complete understanding of these brain processes is critical for paving the way to novel treatments of the 46 million Americans experiencing a communication disorder, including deficits in speech production and language use resulting from conditions such as stroke-related neural deficits and autism. A major challenge in the study of acoustic communication is the segregation of information between human and nonhuman studies as well as the isolated communities that focus on individual model systems. The Gordon Research Conference on the Neural Mechanisms of Acoustic Communication (NMAC GRC) is a new scientific meeting created to bring together a highly interdisciplinary group of researchers to better understand how the brain encodes and produces acoustic signals. We will leverage the experimental access inherent in laboratory animals to study the cellular mechanisms for acoustic communication from a diversity of organisms, including humans. We anticipate that this conference will help to reveal new principles concerning vocal communication in the hopes of developing a deeper understanding of the disorders that affect these processes. Topics of this inaugural program include vocal development and learning, vocal interactions, auditory specializations, genomics, predictive coding, and cortical mechanisms of vocal production. The 2020 NMAC has three specific aims: 1) To advance acoustic communication research by offering an environment that encourages questions and discussion, challenges current thinking, identifies open questions, and provides opportunities for new collaborations; 2) to create a unique forum for interaction for researchers with different perspectives on acoustic communication; and 3) to promote diversity in acoustic communication research with respect to gender balance, career stage, and representation of underrepresented minorities. Successful completion of these aims will advance acoustic communication research by encouraging new ideas and collaborations, highlighting diversity in the field, and inspiring the next generation of scientists. This should accelerate the pace of discovery and translation to the clinic, consistent with the mission of NIH.

项目概要/摘要： 不同的物种往往具有不同的通信策略的生产和感知的声音 社会信号，并比较方法的神经机制的研究基础声学 交流可以使我们深入了解神经功能的一般机制。更完整地理解 这些大脑过程对于为4600万美国人的新疗法铺平道路至关重要， 一种沟通障碍，包括由于某种条件导致的言语产生和语言使用的缺陷 例如中风相关的神经缺陷和自闭症。声学通信研究中的一个主要挑战是 人类和非人类研究之间的信息隔离，以及 专注于个别模型系统。戈登声学神经机制研究会议 交流（NMAC GRC）是一个新的科学会议，旨在汇集高度跨学科的 一组研究人员更好地了解大脑如何编码和产生声音信号。我们将 利用实验室动物固有的实验途径来研究声学的细胞机制， 包括人类在内的各种生物的交流。我们预计，这次会议将有助于 揭示了有关声乐交流的新原则，希望能加深对 影响这些过程的疾病。这个就职计划的主题包括声乐发展， 学习，声音的相互作用，听觉的专门化，基因组学，预测编码，和大脑皮层的机制， 声乐制作 2020年NMAC有三个具体目标：1）通过提供一个 鼓励提问和讨论的环境，挑战当前的思维，确定开放的问题， 并为新的合作提供机会; 2）为研究人员创造一个独特的互动论坛， 3）促进声学传播的多样性 研究性别平衡、职业阶段和代表性不足的少数群体的代表性。 这些目标的成功实现将通过鼓励新的想法来推进声学通信研究 和合作，强调该领域的多样性，并激励下一代科学家。这应该 加快发现和转化到临床的步伐，与NIH的使命一致。