1998 HEARING RESEARCH SEMINARS

January 30, 1998
David Corey, Ph.D.
Massachusetts General Hospital
"Unconventional myosins in the life and death of auditory hair cells"

Tuesday, February 24, 1998 - 10:30 am
E.F. Evans, Ph.D.
Dept. of Communication and Neuroscience
University of Keele (United Kingdom)
"Physiological, pharmacological and modeling studies of onset cells in the cochlear nucleus"

March 20, 1998
Peter Chiu, Ph.D.
Department of Communication Disorders
Boston University Hearing Research Center
"On the mechanism of environmental sound identification: contributions from multiple sources of memory"

March 27, 1998
Melanie Matthies, Ph.D.
Communication Disorders Department
Boston University
"Deafness from Neurofibromatosis II and voice production"

April 3, 1998
Jennifer Melcher, Ph.D
Eaton Peabody Laboratory
Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary
"Imaging Human Auditory Function"

April 17, 1998
William Hellman, Ph.D.
Dept. of Physics
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"The effect of aural harmonics on loudness"

April 24, 1998
Konstantina Stankovic, Ph.D.
Eaton Peabody Laboratory
Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
"Efferent Effects on Auditory Nerve Responses: Inhibition at High Sound Levels and Tail Frequencies"

May 8, 1998
Andrew Oxenham, Ph.D.
Communication Research Laboratory
Northeastern University
"Perceptual consequences of cochlear nonlinearity"

May 15, 1998
Roger Miller, Ph.D.
Hearing Research Labs
Division of Otolaryngology
Duke University Medical Center
"The representation of vowels within the impaired cochlea: Implications for hearing aid design"

May 22, 1998
Michael Harms
Eaton Peabody Laboratory
Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
"Dependence of fMRI activation in the human auditory pathway on noise burst presentation rate"

May 29, 1998
Steven van de Par, Ph.D.
Visiting Scientist
Department of Surgery (Otolaryngology)
Center for Neurological Sciences
University of Connecticut Health Center
and
Post-doctoral fellow
IPO (Institute for Perception Research)
Eindhoven, the Netherlands
"Spectral resolution in binaural signal-detection experiments"

June 5, 1998
Chris James, Ph.D.
Dept. of Otolaryngology
University of Melbourne
"Binaural interactions between cochlear implants and hearing-aids: Evidence for place specificity"

June 12, 1998
Ling Zheng, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"An Active Homeomorphic Model for Otoacoustic Emissions and Wavelet Analysis of Transient-Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions"

June 16, 1998
John Culling, Ph.D.
Research Laboratory of Physiology
Oxford University
"Auditory motion pop-out"

June 19, 1998
Clarke Cox, Ph.D.
Dept. of Otolaryngology
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"Current status of ABR in the detection of vestibular schwannomas"

TUESDAY June 30, 1998, 2:30 p.m.
Yo^iti Suzuki, Ph.D.
Research Institute of Electrical Communication
Yohoku University
Sendai, Japan
"Equal loudness contours: Old but new problem"

July 10, 1998
Ruth Anne Eatock, Ph.D.
The Bobby R. Alford Dept. of Otolaryngology and Communicative Sciences
Baylor College of Medicine
"How do vestibular and auditory hair cells differ?"

July 17, 1998
Fernando Garcia-Diaz, Ph.D.
Department of Physiology
Boston University School of Medicine
"Functional expression of ionic channels in developing cochlear neurons"

September 29, 1998
H. Steven Colburn, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"Simple models of LSO responses"

October 13, 1998
Laurel Carney, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"Behavioral and Physiological studies of binaural detection in the rabbit"

BINAURAL BASH on October 23 and 24, 1998

October 27, 1998
Russell Snyder, Ph.D.
Epstein Laboratory
University of California at San Francisco
"Central Auditory Plasticity Following Acute Lesions of the Cat Spiral Ganglion"

November 3, 1998
Mari Ostendorf, Ph.D.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Boston University
"Use of Hearing and Speech Production Research in Popular Speech Recognition Technology"

November 10, 1998
Joe Adams, Ph.D.
Eaton Peabody Laboratory
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
"Potassium recycling in the Cochlea"

1:00 pm November 17, 1998
Robert Dizon
Biomedical Engineering Department
Boston University
Dissertation Prospectus Presentation:
"Sound localization in reverberant environments: Modeling temporal processing in the binaural system"

December 8, 1998
William Hellman, Ph.D.
Physics Department
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"Modelling long term loudness adaptations"

December 15, 1998
Allyn Hubbard, Ph.D.
Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Departments
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"Traveling-wave amplification and a possible model for the cochlea"