Core Center

描述(由申请人提供)：核心中心的总体目标保持不变：聚集17名研究听力和沟通障碍不同方面的研究人员，提高他们个人努力和持续合作的效率和生产力，将研究动物基本听力机制的研究人员与研究人类听力障碍的研究人员整合在一起。这为创造性和发展中的合作取得成果提供了新的、有时甚至是独特的机会。参与这一应用的研究人员代表了广泛的听力科学，从昆虫听觉的解剖学和生理学，到听力受损人类复杂声音感知的心理声学。现有的项目包括蝙蝠和鸟类的声音定位，昆虫和蝙蝠的捕食者与捕食者的相互作用，鱼类和鸟类的毛细胞再生，鸟类毛细胞再生后听力和发声的恢复，人类语言过程的MIG成像，蝙蝠、鸟类、正常人类、听力受损和老年人类的时间分辨率的精确度，以及昆虫、鱼类、鸟类和人类的复杂声音知觉的个体发育。总而言之，这群听力科学的研究人员和主题可能是现存的最多样化的。P30机制的支持对于保持高度的互动完整性和生产力至关重要。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goals of the Core Center remain as before to: bring together 17 investigators working on different aspects of hearing and communication disorders, increase the efficiency and productivity of their individual efforts and ongoing collaborations, integrate investigators studying basic hearing mechanisms in animals with investigators studying human hearing impairment. This provides new and sometimes unique opportunities for creative and developing collaborations to reach fruition. The investigators participating in this application represent a broad range of hearing science from anatomy and physiology of hearing in insects to the psychoacoustics of complex sound perception in hearing impaired humans. Existing projects include sound localization in bats and birds, prey-predator interactions in insects and bats, hair cell regeneration in fish and birds, recovery of hearing and vocalizations in birds following hair cell regeneration, MIG imaging of language processes in humans, precision of time resolution in bats, birds, normal, hearing impaired, and aged humans, and the ontogeny of complex acoustic perception in insects, fish, birds, and humans. Taken together, this group of investigators and topics in hearing science is probably the most diverse in existence. The support of the P30 mechanism is essential in keeping a high level of interactive integrity and productivity.