Past Seminars 2003

January 17, 2003
S. E. Roian Egnor, Ph.D.
Harvard University
"Binaural processing of sound stimuli in the barn owl: binaural correlation and spectral localization"
Abstract available here

January 24, 2003
Eva Wagner, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology - Bouve College
Northeastern University
"Across-Channel Processing in Auditory Perception: A Study in Gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) and Cochlear-Implant Subjects"
Abstract available here

January 31, 2003
James Simmons, Ph.D.
Professor
Neuroscience Department
Brown University
"An unusual time-frequency auditory domain for biosonar processing."

February 7, 2003 - NO SEMINAR

February 14, 2003
Mark Parker, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School
Department of Otology & Laryngology
"Therapeutic potential of stem cells in cochlear repair"
Abstract available here

February 21, 2003
NO HRC SEMINAR, BECAUSE ...
Andrew King, Ph.D.
is speaking on spatial hearing in ferrets
at the CNS seminar room at 2 pm
677 Beacon Street

February 28, 2003 - NO SEMINAR - ARO WEEK

March 7, 2003
Don Eddington, Ph.D.
Principal Research Scientist
Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT
Cochlear Implant Research Laboratory, Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary
Topic: Cochlear Implant work at MEEI

March 14, 2003
Charlotte Reed, Ph.D.
Principal Research Scientist
Research Laboratory of Electronics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Understanding Speech through the skin"
Abstract available here

March 28, 2003
Andrew Mason, Ph.D.
Professor
Division of Life Sciences
University of Toronto
"Directional Hearing in a Parasitoid Fly"
Abstract available here

April 4, 2003
G. Bruce Henning, Ph.D.
Professor
U. of Oxford, England
SRU, Dept. of Experimental Psychology
"Some observations on BMLDs (Binaural Masking Level Differences)"

April 11, 2003
Monty Escabi, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
University of Connecticut
"Spectro-Temporal Information Processing in the Central Auditory System and its Implications for Binaural Spatial Processing"
Abstract available here

April 18, 2003
Barry Blesser, Ph.D.
Blesser Associates
Belmont, MA
"An Alternative Foundation for Auditory Perception: Sensory Sub-Cultures"
Abstract available here

April 25, 2003
Jean C. Krause, Ph.D., and
Louis D. Braida, Ph.D.
Aids for Sensory Communication Group
M.I.T.
"Clear speech at normal rates and implications for intelligibility enhancement"

May 9, 2003
Peter Narins, Ph.D.
Professor
Departments of Physiological Science and OBEE Biology
UCLA
"Frequency-dependent acoustic pathways in the amphibian ear: Evidence from models, measurements and microseismic stimulation"
Abstract available here

May 16, 2003
John Rosowski, Ph.D.
Research Laboratory of Electronics
M.I.T.
"Measurements of tympanic-membrane motion in human subjects, including patients"

May 23, 2003
Ken Hancock, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Eaton-Peabody Laboratory
Massachussetts Eye & Ear Infirmary
"A physiologically based model of ITD discrimination"
Abstract available here

September 19, 2003
Wil Howitt, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Hearing Research Center
"State of the Rothman 93 Bushy Cell Model"
Abstract available here

September 26, 2003
Steve Colburn, Ph.D.
Professor
Hearing Research Center
"Interaural time delay information in neural patterns"

October 3 and 4, 2003
BINAURAL BASH - NO REGULAR SEMINAR
for further information, contact Nancy Maguire (nmaguire@bu.edu)

October 10, 2003
Courtney Lane, Ph.D.
Speech, Hearing, and BioTechnology Program
Mass. Inst. of Tech.
"Signal detection in the auditory midbrain: Neural correlates and mechanisms of spatial release from masking"
Abstract available here

October 17, 2003- SCHEDULE CHANGE
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Ph.D.
Departments of Cognitive and Neural Systems and Biomedical Engineering
Hearing Research Center
Boston University
"Computing azimuth in everyday environments"

October 24, 2003
Craig Jin, PhD
Lecturer in Computer Engineering
School of Electrical and Information Engineering
University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia
"Recoding Spatial Audio"
Abstract available here

October 31, 2003
David Anderson
Research Associate
Hearing Research Center
Sargent College Health Sciences
Boston University
"Earlab: A virtual auditory laboratory"

November 7, 2003 - NO SEMINAR

November 14, 2003
Erick Gallun, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Hearing Research Center
Sargent College Health Sciences
Boston University
"Sensitivity to Brief Changes in Intensity: Modeling the sensory trace comparison with an Amplitude-Modulation Filterbank"
Abstract available here

November 21, 2003
Xiaoqin Wang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Johns Hopkins University
"Neural Processing of Complex Sounds in the Primate Auditory Cortex"
Abstract available here

November 28, 2003 - NO SEMINAR
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

December 5, 2003
Oded Ghitza, Ph.D.
Sensimetrics Corporation
"On the possible role of MSO efferents in speech reception in noise"
Abstract available here

December 12, 2003
Benjamin Emerson
Audio Supervisor, Huntington Theatre Company
Teaching Sound Designer
School of Theatre Arts, Boston University
"Theatrical Sound Design -- Illusion as Reality"

December 19, 2003 -- January 15, 2004 NO SEMINARS
HOLIDAY BREAK!