Past Seminars 2002

January 11, 2002
Qian-Jie Fu, Ph.D.
Department of Auditory Implants and Perception
House Ear Institute
"Speech Pattern Recognition in Electric Hearing: The Underlying Mechanisms"

January 18, 2002
Kamal Sen, Ph.D.
Sloan Center for Integrative Neuroscience
University of California at San Francisco
"Hierarchical Processing of Natural Sounds in the Songbird Auditory Forebrain"

January 25, 2002 - NO SEMINAR - ARO MEETING

February 1, 2002 - NO SEMINAR - ARO MEETING

February 8, 2002
CNS Seminar
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Ph.D.
Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"Plasticity in Spatial Auditory Perception"

April 12, 2002
Doug Brungart, Ph.D.
Air Force Research Laboratory
Wright Patterson AFB
"From Aircraft Carrier Noise to Bone Conduction to Audio/Visual Informational Masking: An overview of auditory research at AFRL"

May 31, 2002
Robert Carlyon, Ph.D.
Hearing Group
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Cambridge, England
"The Continuity Illusion, Frequency Modulation, Vowel Perception, and Elephant Noise"

June 28, 2002 - 10:30 am in Room 102 of Commonwealth Ave. (Sargent College)
Erick Gallun
Doctoral Candidate
University of California, Berkeley
"Sensitivity to Intensity Change"

July 5, 2002
Nicolay Bibikov, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
N.N. Andreyev Acoustics Institute
Moscow, Russia
"Adaptation in auditory units AND Internal tuning of central auditory units"

July 19, 2002
David Griesinger, Ph.D.
Lexicon
"Perceptual mechanisms for the soatial propoeties of halls and rooms: The formation of foreground event streams and the background stream"

September 13, 2002
Steve Colburn, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"Binaural Hearing, Hearing Aids, and Cochlear Implants"
September 20, 2002
Allyn Hubbard, Ph.D.
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"A New, Realistic, Multi-mode Theory of the Cochlear Amplifier"
Abstract

September 27, 2002
Andrea Simmons, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Brown University
"Temporal coding of periodicity in the frog's auditory system"
Abstract

October 4, 2002
Mary Florentine, Ph.D. and Soren Buus, Ph.D.
Northeastern University
"It's Softness Imperception, Not Loudness Recruitment"

October 11, 2002
Robert Lutfi, Ph.D.
Department of Communication Disorders
University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Auditory Informational Masking in Hearing-Impaired Listeners"

October 18 and 19, 2002 -- BINAURAL BASH

October 25, 2002
M. Charles Liberman, Ph.D.
Neuroscience Program
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
"Efferent control of the inner ear: Surgical, pharmacological and genetic dissection of a complex feedback pathway"

November 1, 2002
Christophe Micheyl, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Laboratory of Electronics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"The neural basis of stream segregation in the primary auditory cortex"
Abstract

November 8, 2002
Peter Cariani, Ph.D.
Eaton-Peabody Laboratory
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
"Extensions of population-interval models for pitch: pitch multiplicity, harmonic resolvability and pitch masking"
Abstract

November 15, 2002
Chris Shera, Ph.D., and Andrew Oxenham, Ph.D.
Eaton-Peabody Laboratory at Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary (Shera)
Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT (Oxenham)
"Revised estimates of human cochlear tuning using otoacoustic and behavioral measures"
Abstract

November 22, 2002
Bruno Giordano, Ph.D.
"Material from sound: an investigation in ecological acoustics"

November 29, 2002 --- NO SEMINAR --- HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

December 6, 2002
David C. Mountain, Ph.D.
Hearing Research Center
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Boston University
"How does the cochlear amplifier stimulate the inner hair cells?" and behavioral measures"