Past Seminars 2001

January 19, 2001
Pavel Zahorik, Ph.D.
NIH Postdoctoral Fellow
U.C. - Santa Barbara
"Loudness constancy with varying sound source distance"

January 26, 2001
Prateek Aggarwal
Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
PhD Prospectus Defense
"Temporal coding of SAM stimuli: Entrainment vs. Rate modulation in DCN"

WEDNESDAY, January 31, 2001, AT 9:30 AM -- NOTE SPECIAL DAY/TIME
Professor Bruce Henning, Ph.D.
Oxford University
"Variations on a theme of Mach"

February 9, 2001 - No seminar - ARO week

February 16, 2001
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Ph.D.
Cognitive and Neural Systems Department
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"Localizing in rooms"

February 23, 2001 --- NO SEMINAR - BME DAY AT BU

March 2, 2001
Sari Levanen, Ph.D.
MGH NMR Center
Harvard Medical School
"Neuromagnetic studies of auditory cortex activation in hearing subjects and in
congenitally deaf"

March 30, 2001
Fredrik Lindgren, Ph.D.
Vice President for Research and Development
GN Netcom; Nashua, NH
and
Associate Professor
University of Goteburg, Sweden
"Variability in Susceptibility to Noise-Induced Hearing Loss - Facts or Fiction?"

April 6, 2001
Greg Wakefield, Ph.D.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Michigan
"I See Voices: Multimedia Tools, Time-Frequency Analysis, and the Singer"

April 13, 2001
Doug Brungart, Ph.D.
Air Force Research Laboratory
Wright Patterson Air Force Base
"Informational and energetic masking effects in multitalker speech perception"

May 2, 2001 -- WEDNESDAY AT 9:30 IN ROOM 401 OF 44 CUMMINGTON ST
Robert Dizon, Ph.D. Thesis Defense
"Behavioral and Computational Modeling Studies of the Precedence Effect in Humans"

May 4, 2001
Torsten Marquardt, Ph.D.
Dept. of Physiology
University College London
"Psychophysical Examinations of the 4-Channel Model of Binaural Hearing:
Off-Frequency Listening"

May 11, 2001
Daniel Shub, M.S.
MIT Speech and Hearing Program
"The Role of the Precedence Effect in Sound Source Lateralization"

May 18, 2001 - NO SEMINAR

Les Bernstein at MIT --- 11 AM, Thursday, May 24, 2001
Grier Room, Bldg. 34-401
50 Vassar Street
Cambridge, MA 02139

Les R. Bernstein, PhD.
Departments of Neuroscience and Otolaryngology
University of Connecticut Health Center
"Sensitivity to brief changes of interaural time and intensity: A temporal-window approach"

May 25, 2001
Stephan Ewart, Ph.D.
Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT
(Visiting from the University of Oldenburg)
"Spectro-temporal processing of amplitude modulation"

June 1, 2001 - NO SEMINAR
FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS
Tutorials: May 30, 2001
Meeting: May 31 - June 2, 2001
Boston University
http://www.cns.bu.edu/meetings/

June 8, 2001 - NO SEMINAR - ASA Meeting in Chicago

June 13, 2001
Charles Berlin, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Communication Disorders
LSU Medical Center
"Auditory Neuropathy/Dys-synchrony"

June 15, 2001
Helen Barbas, Ph.D.
Dept. of Health Sciences
Boston University

June 22, 2001 --- no seminar

June 29, 2001 --- no seminar

July 6, 2001
Melanie Matthies, Ph.D.
Dept. of Communication Disorders
Boston Unversity
"Cochlear implant effects on sibilant perception and production"

July 13, 2001 - 10:00 am, CNS room B02 (677 Beacon Street)
Norbert Kopco, Ph.D. Candidate (Dept. of Cognitive and Neural Systems)
Ph.D. thesis defense, Dept. of Cognitive and Neural Systems
"Spatial Hearing, Auditory Sensitivity, and Pattern Recognition in Noisy Environments"

July 20, 2001
Lisa Shatz, Ph.D.
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Suffolk University
"The effect of hair bundle shape on hair bundle hydrodynamics of inner ear hair cells"

July 24, 2001 -- TUESDAY! at 10:30 am
Virginia Best
Department of Physiology
University of Sydney (Australia)
"Some psychophysical experiments using continuous virtual auditory space"

July 25, 2001 -- WEDNESDAY! at 10:30 am
Dennis Freeman, Ph.D.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Measuring Material Properties of the Tectorial Membrane"

July 27, 2001
Leonid Litvak
Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
"Towards a better speech processor for cochlear implants: Auditory nerve responses
to high rate electric pulse trains"

September 21, 2001
Richard Fay, Ph.D.
Parmly Hearing Institute
Loyola University, Chicago
"Experiments on Auditory Perception in Goldfish"

September 28, 2001
Xinya (Peter) Zhang
Graduate Research Assistant
BU Hearing Research Center
[Visitor from Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan]
"Binaural pitch -- low frequency paradox"

October 5, 2001
NO SEMINAR --- BINAURAL BASH
email for more information

October 9, 2001 --- TUESDAY --- 11:00 am
Neal Viemeister , Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Minnesota
"Psychophysical and physiological aspects of auditory temporal processing"

October 12, 2001
Srikantan Nagarajan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Bioengineering
University of Utah
"Cortical representation of spectrotemporal information"

October 19, 2001
William Hartmann, Ph.D.
BU Hearing Research Center
[Visitor from Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan]
"Interaural level differences and the level-meter model"

October 25, 2001 --- THURSDAY --- 11:00 am
Neal Viemeister , Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Minnesota
"Stimulus fine structure and monaural hearing"

October 26, 2001 --- NO SEMINAR

November 2, 2001
Barry Blesser, Ph.D.
Blesser Associates
Belmont, MA
"Implications of Hearing the Space"

November 9, 2001 --- NO SEMINAR

November 16, 2001
Steve Colburn, Ph.D.
Hearing Research Center
"Interaural Time Discrimination --- Psychophysics and a little physiology"

November 23, 2001 --- NO SEMINAR --- Happy Thanksgiving

November 30, 2001, 10:30 AM

ROOM 203 OF BU PHOTONICS BUILDING (8 ST. MARY'S ST.)
Vasant Dasika
Graduate Student
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"Data and models of binaural coincidence detector neurons: Neural basis of spatial hearing

December 7, 2001 --- OPEN

December 14, 2001, 10:30 AM

ROOM 104 OF SARGENT COLLEGE (635 COMM. AVE.)
Patrick Kanold, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School
"Auditory-somatosensory interactions in the dorsal cochlear nucleus"

December 18, 2001, 11:30 AM
(ROOM TBA)
Lucas Parra, Ph.D.
Technology Leader
Adaptive Image & Signal Processing Group
Sarnoff Corporation
"Geometric Source Separation: Merging convolutive source separation with geometric
beamforming"