
Ross Snider - US grants
Affiliations: | Montana State University, Bozeman, MT |
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According to our matching algorithm, Ross Snider is the likely recipient of the following grants.Years | Recipients | Code | Title / Keywords | Matching score |
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2001 — 2005 | Snider, Ross | N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
@ Montana State University This proposal provides support for development of a high performance, reconfigurable signal-processing platform that will permit real-time analysis of large-scale multi-channel neurophysiologic data and subsequent use in simulation and modeling. The computational architecture will be a distributed, real-time system of modular design consisting of computational nodes connected in a three-dimensional mesh. A computational node will include a floating-point digital signal processor (DSP), a field programmable gate array (FPGA), and local memory. This system to be used is reconfigurable, so that algorithms can be directly implemented in the hardware. The FPGAs can act as communication processors, allowing significant bandwidth for communication between computational nodes. Configuring the system as a three-dimensional mesh will allow the system to scale to any number of computational nodes required to process an arbitrary number of real-time I/O data streams. |
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2002 — 2004 | Snider, Ross Kenneth | R03Activity Code Description: To provide research support specifically limited in time and amount for studies in categorical program areas. Small grants provide flexibility for initiating studies which are generally for preliminary short-term projects and are non-renewable. |
Population Coding of Species-Specific Vocalizations @ Montana State University (Bozeman) DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The ability of the auditory cortex to identify and extract relevant communication sounds in an acoustic environment that contains other irrelevant sounds is known as auditory scene analysis. This ability is important for any robust communication system that operates in a realistic environment. The goal of this application is to examine a possible mechanism by which auditory scene analysis is performed. This possible mechanism is the synchronous activity of neurons, which may facilitate the separation of vocalizations from other sounds. A large body of evidence indicates that synchronous neuronal activity is a general feature of cortical and thalamic networks. The functional role of this activity is still largely unknown, however. These findings have led to the hypothesis that synchronous activity reflects the grouping of distributed neuronal activities into a common representation of integrated stimulus features. This hypothesis predicts that synchronous interactions should occur between neurons located in multiple cortical areas. The objective of the proposed research is to expand our under-standing of synchronization in the auditory cortex. To achieve this goal, we will investigate the occurrence, proper ties, and stimulus dependence of temporal correlations of neuronal activity occurring simultaneously within and between auditory areas A1, R, and AL of marmoset auditory cortex. Simultaneous recordings will be made from each of the three auditory cortical areas while the marmoset vocally interacts with its peers in an unconstrained manner. This will permit an assessment of inter-areal synchrony, its temporal dynamics, and stimulus conditions under which it is expressed. A multichannel wireless system will be built to enable the process of recording and analyzing the activity of distributed groups of neurons in unrestrained animals. This will provide a powerful tool that will be used to trace neural pathways that process species-specific vocalizations. This will allow data to be recorded as animals naturally interact with each other, which is not possible with restrained animals. An additional benefit of the system is that is will provide a method of studying higher cortical areas where the optimal stimuli are not known a priori. |
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2002 — 2007 | Miller, John [⬀] Gedeon, Tomas (co-PI) [⬀] Mumey, Brendan (co-PI) [⬀] Snider, Ross |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
@ Montana State University EIA-0129895 -John P. Miller-Montana State University-Algorithms for real-time decoding and modulation of neural spike trains-A grand challenge in neuroscience is to understand the biological basis of information processing in nervous systems. Three major goals facing sensory neuroscientists are a) to understand how sensory information is encoded in the activity patterns of neural ensembles, b) to understand how those activity patterns are decoded by cells at the subsequent processing stages, and c) to understand how computations (e.g. visual pattern recognition or oriented motor responses) are carried out on that decoded information. Two major goals of the research proposed here are a) to develop a formal, general approach toward achieving those goals, and b) to test and refine that approach by characterizing the functional organization and neural encoding scheme of a simple sensory system. These goals will be achieved through the development of a data-driven model of the system. The model will be formulated in terms of information processing units and information channels, rather than in terms of individual neurons. That is, the functional units in the model will be operators that carry out specific, independent computations (or information transformation operations) at a specific processing stage in the test nervous system, and the channels through which information is passed between these functional units will correspond to information channels in the Shannon sense. |
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2006 | Snider, Ross Kenneth | R21Activity Code Description: To encourage the development of new research activities in categorical program areas. (Support generally is restricted in level of support and in time.) |
Development:Small High Bandwidth Telemetry System @ Montana State University (Bozeman) [unreadable] DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is a current need in the field of auditory neurophysiology for a small high bandwidth telemetry system that will enable the recording of many channels of neural activity in unrestrained animals in response to natural acoustic stimuli. Such a system will provide a powerful tool that will be used to trace neural pathways that process species-specific vocalizations. The transmitter will provide up to 64 neural channels where each channel will be sampled at 50 KHz and will be 1 cm3 in size. It will be designed to allow up to eight simultaneous systems, which will permit researchers to study interactions, vocal exchanges, and communications between and among animals within a social group or colony. The transmitter will be designed to provide an interface to record acoustic signals from several small mounted microphones. Recording both acoustic and neural channels simultaneously will allow these signals to be correlated. Although the system will be targeted at auditory neurophysiology in marmosets, it will be general enough to be used in many neuroethology applications. [unreadable] [unreadable] Specific Aim 1: To develop a 5.8 GHz transmitter that is 1 cm2 in size and that consumes only 90mW of power. The transmitter will be designed to allow up to eight systems to occupy the 5.8 GHz ISM band simultaneously. [unreadable] [unreadable] Specific Aim 2: To develop an amplifier and multiplexer front end for 64 channels that will fit on several boards of size 1 cm2. This will be accomplished by a chip-on-board approach. This will allow the 5.8 GHz transmitter and analog front end to be 1 cm3 in size. [unreadable] [unreadable] Specific Aim 3: To develop a flexible on-line data analysis and Ethernet backend to the telemetry system so that functions such as spike sorting and/or reverse correlation can be performed in real-time as data is collected. [unreadable] [unreadable] Health Relevance: It is believed that studying the neuroethological aspects of communication sounds will contribute most to the understanding of how speech sounds are processed by humans. Studying how a vocally active primate can identify and extract behaviorally relevant vocalizations from other sounds will provide a model that will allow the development of signal processing algorithms that can extract speech signals from other non-speech sounds. This will have a direct impact on improving engineering applications such as robust speech recognition systems and hearing aids. [unreadable] [unreadable] |
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2007 | Snider, Ross Kenneth | R21Activity Code Description: To encourage the development of new research activities in categorical program areas. (Support generally is restricted in level of support and in time.) |
Development of a Small High Bandwidth Telemetry System For Neurophysiology @ Montana State University (Bozeman) [unreadable] DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): There is a current need in the field of auditory neurophysiology for a small high bandwidth telemetry system that will enable the recording of many channels of neural activity in unrestrained animals in response to natural acoustic stimuli. Such a system will provide a powerful tool that will be used to trace neural pathways that process species-specific vocalizations. The transmitter will provide up to 64 neural channels where each channel will be sampled at 50 KHz and will be 1 cm3 in size. It will be designed to allow up to eight simultaneous systems, which will permit researchers to study interactions, vocal exchanges, and communications between and among animals within a social group or colony. The transmitter will be designed to provide an interface to record acoustic signals from several small mounted microphones. Recording both acoustic and neural channels simultaneously will allow these signals to be correlated. Although the system will be targeted at auditory neurophysiology in marmosets, it will be general enough to be used in many neuroethology applications. [unreadable] [unreadable] Specific Aim 1: To develop a 5.8 GHz transmitter that is 1 cm2 in size and that consumes only 90mW of power. The transmitter will be designed to allow up to eight systems to occupy the 5.8 GHz ISM band simultaneously. [unreadable] [unreadable] Specific Aim 2: To develop an amplifier and multiplexer front end for 64 channels that will fit on several boards of size 1 cm2. This will be accomplished by a chip-on-board approach. This will allow the 5.8 GHz transmitter and analog front end to be 1 cm3 in size. [unreadable] [unreadable] Specific Aim 3: To develop a flexible on-line data analysis and Ethernet backend to the telemetry system so that functions such as spike sorting and/or reverse correlation can be performed in real-time as data is collected. [unreadable] [unreadable] Health Relevance: It is believed that studying the neuroethological aspects of communication sounds will contribute most to the understanding of how speech sounds are processed by humans. Studying how a vocally active primate can identify and extract behaviorally relevant vocalizations from other sounds will provide a model that will allow the development of signal processing algorithms that can extract speech signals from other non-speech sounds. This will have a direct impact on improving engineering applications such as robust speech recognition systems and hearing aids. [unreadable] [unreadable] |
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2013 — 2017 | Snider, Ross Miller, Cory |
N/AActivity Code Description: No activity code was retrieved: click on the grant title for more information |
Idbr: Developing a Behavioral Acoustic Biome Measurement System @ Montana State University An award has been made to Ross Snider of Montana State University and Cory Miller of the University of California, San Diego to develop a novel acoustic and behavioral recording system for investigating the ongoing dynamics of communication networks in wild small mammals. Communication is a biological necessity. Without the ability to communication, interactions between individuals would be impossible. To this end, species evolved complex communication systems that provide them with a range of signals that function to convey meaningful information to other individuals. Much of what is currently known about the mechanisms underlying communication is derived from relatively simple interactions involving a signal producer and signal receiver. While this undoubtedly remains a core component of communication, a range of studies in human and nonhuman animals show that communication is often far more complex. Rather than being restricted to a dyadic pair, communication frequently involves multiple individuals in a dynamic network. A significant constraint on investigating these communication networks is methodological. Traditional methods may be inadequate for recording the ongoing vocal interactions of multiple individuals in the wild. This project seeks to address this limitation by developing a novel collar-based recording system that allows the simultaneous acoustic and behavioral data collection on multiple individuals in a social group. Using a species of nonhuman primates, the common marmoset, as a model, this recording system will provide significant insight into the complexities of species-typical communication networks. |
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