1997 HEARING RESEARCH SEMINARS

January 17, 1997
L. Clarke Cox, Ph.D.
Chief of Audiology
Director of Clinical Audiology
and
C. Bruce MacDonald, M.D.
Assistant Professor
Neurotologist

Department of Otolaryngology
Boston University Medical Center
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"Sensorineural Hearing Loss and Unusual Pathologies"

January 24, 1997
Tina Rankovic, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Dept. of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology
Northeastern University
"Fletcher's articulation theory"

January 31, 1997
Trevor Shackleton, Ph.D.
Neurophysiologist
MRC Institute of Hearing Research
Nottingham, U.K.
"Binaural Processing in the IC"

February 21, 1997
Richard Hallworth, Ph.D.
Dept. of Otolaryngology
U. of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
"Pumping Up the Volume: Force Production by a Cochlear Sensory Cell"
(Joint seminar with the BME Dept.)

March 7, 1997
Ruth Litovsky, Ph.D.
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"Psychophysics and Physiology related to Precedence in the Azimuthal and Median Planes"

March 14, 1997
William Dolphin, Ph.D.
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Hearing Research Center
Boston University

March 21, 1997
Ilya Shekhter
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
Title TBA

March 28, 1997
Neil Viemeister, Ph.D.
Dept. of Psychology
University of Minnesota
"Loudness, Intensity Discrimination, and Modulation Processing"

March 31, 1997
Don Caspary, Ph.D.
Southern Illinois University Medical School
"A possible neurochemical basis for age-related auditory dysfunction"

April 4, 1997
Patricia Schmeig, President
Nini Silver, Vice President
Self-Help for Hard of Hearing People - Greater Boston Chapter

April 11, 1997
Tai Lin, Ph.D.
Eaton Peabody Laboratory
Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary
"Quantifying the two factors in auditory-nerve transient and steady state responses"

April 18, 1997
Christopher Shera, Ph.D.
Eaton Peabody Laboratory
Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary
"The origin of echo emissions"

April 25, 1997
Ilsa Schwartz
Yale University
"Inotropic glutamate receptor subunit localization in the SOC and CN of the gerbil"

May 2, 1997
Lisa Olson, Ph.D.
Princeton University
"Measuring the mechanical impedance of the cochlear partition with intracochlear pressure"

May 9, 1997
Robert Shannon, Ph.D.
House Ear Institute, Los Angeles
"Tonotopic selectivity of electrical stimulation of cochlear implants: Implications for the representation of speech patterns"

May 16, 1997
Kenneth Hancock
Biomedical Engineering/Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"Intracellular response properties of morphologically identified neurons in the cochlear nucleus of the barbiturate-anesthetized gerbil"

May 23, 1997
Alan Cody, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology and Pharmacology
The University of Queensland
"The attachment of the tectorial membrane - 25 years on" and
"CNS Deymyelinating disorders - effects on peripheral auditory function"

June 13 - ASA Practice Session

June 27, 1997
Steven Lowen, Ph.D.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Boston University
"Fractal-rate behavior of auditory-nerve fibers"

July 11, 1997
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Ph.D.
Dept. of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
"Sensorimotor adaptation in auditory localization paradigms: Constraints on learning"

July 18, 1997
Shuwan Xue, Ph.D.
Dept. of Physics
University of Vermont
"Enhancement and suppression of electrically-evoked emissions by low frequency tones: Negative feedback or apical conductance change of the stereocillia?"

WEDNESDAY July 22, 1997
Steven van de Par
Institute for Perception Research (IPO)
The Netherlands
"Modeling of binaural detection"

July 25, 1997
James Pickles, Ph.D.
University of Queensland
"Mechanotransduction and development in cochlear hair cells"

September 12, 1997 - 9:30 am
Monica Hawley-Kascka
Graduate Research Assistant
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"The relationship between binaural hearing and the ability of listeners with hearing impairments to function in a complex environment"
[This is a Ph.D. prospectus defense.]

September 19, 1997
John Culling, Ph.D.
Visiting Research Scientist
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"Trying to understand the binaural intelligibility level difference"

October 3, 1997
Anne Hennig, Ph.D.
Dept of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Boston University Medical Center
"Beyond Hair Cell Regeneration: The fate of efferent terminals after damage to cochlear hair cells"

November 7, 1997
Laurel Carney, Ph.D.
Boston University
Hearing Research Center
"Behavioral and Physiological Studies of Binaural Masking in the Rabbit: A Progress Report"

November 14, 1997
Michael Heinz
MIT Speech and Hearing Sciences Program
Boston University Hearing Research Center
"The Use of Computational Physiological Models for Understanding the Discrimination Abilities of Human Listeners"

November 21, 1997
Sigfrid Soli, Ph.D.
Haus Research Institute
"Binauraul Hearing with Hearing Aids"

December 5, 1997
Carol Espy-Wilson, Ph.D.
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Boston University
"A Knowledge-based Speech Signal Representation"

December 12, 1997
Jelle Atema, Ph.D.
Boston University Marine Program
"Does the nose act as a low-frequency ear for odor source localization"

December 19, 1997
Peter Cariani, Ph.D.
MEEI Eaton-Peabody Laboratory
"Representation of Sound through temporal correlation"