January 19, 1999
Paul Manis, Ph.D.
Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Neuroscience
Biomedical Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
"Ionic mechanisms regulating the discharge patterns of dorsal cochlear
nucleus pyramidal cells"
February 9, 1999
Brent Edwards, Ph.D.
Director of Research
ReSound Corporation
"Signal Processing for Hearing Aids"
February 23, 1999 --- TUESDAY 10:30 am
Klaus Hartung, Ph.D., and Susanne Sterbing, Ph.D.
Ruhr University
Bochum, Germany
"Front-back discrimination in sound localization
-- Psychoacoustical experiments and model simulations"
and
"Virtual sound source coding in the
guinea pig"
March 3, 1999 --- WEDNESDAY 3:00 pm
Michael Heinz
Graduate Research Assistant
Speech and Hearing Program, MIT
Hearing Research Center, Boston University
"Monaural, cross-frequency coincidence detection as mechanism for decoding
perceptual cues provided by the cochlear amplifier"
March 22, --- MONDAY 2:00 pm
Werner Hemmert, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research Laboratory of Electronics, Micromechanics Group
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"One- and three-dimensional vibration measurements on different locations
of the cochlear partition"
March 26 - FRIDAY 3:00 p.m.
Beverly Biderman
University of Toronto
"Wired for Sound: A Journey into Hearing"
(Ms. Biderman is the author of a book by the same name.
She is the recipient
of a cochlear implant after being deaf for thirty years.)
April 5, 1999, 2:00 pm
Carol Espy-Wilson, Ph.D.
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Boston University
"Acoustical Modeling of the Human Vocal Tract from Magnetic Resonance
Imaging Data:
the Case of American English /r/"
April 12, 1999, 2:00 pm
Peter Cariani, Ph.D.
Eaton Peabody Laboratory
Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
"Neural coding of pitch in the auditory system: an overview of the problem"
April 26, 1999, 2:00 pm
Jelle Atema, Ph.D.
Boston University Marine Program
Woods Hole
"Coincidence detection of small-scale flow and chemical features"
May 3, 1999, 2:00 pm
Monica Hawley
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
"Speech intelligibility and
localization in listeners with normal and impaired hearing"
May 17, 1999, 2:00 pm
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Ph.D.
Dept. of Congitive and Neural Systems
Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
"Donuts of confusion: Localization when sounds are within reach"
May 24, 1999, 2:00 pm
Greg Gdowski, Ph.D.
University of Chicago
"Sensory-motor control
of vestibular reflexes:
the role of the vestibular nuclei in detecting
passive movements in the presence of voluntary head movements"
July 9, 1999
Andrew Oxenham, Ph.D.
MIT Research Lab of Electronics
"Space, time, and the formation of auditory objects"
September 17, 1999
Torsten Dau, Ph.D.
Visiting Scientist (1999-2000)
Boston University Hearing Research Center
and
Medical Physics Group
University of Oldenburg, Germany
"Modeling auditory processing of amplitude modulation: Perception"
October 1, 1999
Torsten Dau, Ph.D.
Visiting Scientist (1999-2000)
Boston University Hearing Research Center
and
Medical Physics Group
University of Oldenburg, Germany
"Auditory brainstem responses (ABR) with optimized chirp
signals compensating basilar-membrane dispersion"
October 8, 1999
BINAURAL BASH ALL DAY AND PART OF SATURDAY
For information about future binaural bash participation,
contact Ann Green agreen@bu.edu
October 15, 1999 -- NO SEMINAR
October 22, 1999
Robert Gilkey, Ph.D.
Visiting Scientist (1999-2000)
Boston University Hearing Research Center
and
Department of Psychology
Wright State University and
Wright-Patterson AF Research Laboratory
"Audition and Virtual Environments"
October 29, 1999 -- ASA Run-throughs:
"Context effects and limited spectral information"
(talk for the special session "Bilger and better science")
Melanie Matthies, Ph.D.
Dept. of Communication Disorders, Boston University
and
"The Use of Spectral Vs. Temporal Cues to Recognize Speech" (poster)
Arindam Mandal(a) (presenter), Laura J. Davis (b), Carol Espy-Wilson, Ph.D.
(a), Melanie Matthies, Ph.D. (b)
(a - Dept of Electrical Engineering, Boston University;
b - Dept of Communication Disorders, Boston University)
and
"Perceptual segregation of competing sounds: The role of spatial location"
(poster)
Ward Drennan, Ph.D. (presenter), Stuart Gatehouse, and Catherine Lever
MRC Institute of Hearing Research (Scottish Section)
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
November 12, 1999
Steve Colburn, Ph.D.
Prof., Biomedical Engineering
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"Auditory Space Perception"
November 19, 1999 - NO SEMINAR
November 26, 1999 - NO SEMINAR- Thanksgiving
December 3, 1999
Ling Zheng, Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Hearing Research Center
"Estimating the input-output relationships of envelope phase-locking
auditory neurons using noise"
December 10, 1999 - JOINT with Dept. of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
This seminar will be held in the Photonics Building (St. Mary's Street), Room 211.
Mal Teich, Ph.D.
Prof., Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
"Nonlinear Cellular Dynamics and Routes to Chaos in the Cochlea"
December 17, 1999
Shu Hui Wu, Ph.D.
Visiting Scientist, Department of Anatomy
University of Connecticut Health Center
(on sabbatical from Institute of Neuroscience, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada),
"Long Term Potentiation in the Inferior Colliculus Studied in Rat Brain Slice"
Comments to : Ann Green agreen@bu.edu