Past Seminars 2005
March 4, 2005
Sam Roweis
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
MIT CSAIL
"A Segment-Based Probabilistic Generative Model of Speech"
Abstract available here
March 11, 2005
Christopher J. Plack
Dept. of Psychology
University of Essex
UK
"Secrets of the Inner Ear"
Abstract available here
March 18, 2005 -- NO SEMINAR
BME Department Special schedule
March 25, 2005 -- NO SEMINAR
BME Department Special schedule
April 1, 2005 --
NO HRC SEMINAR, BECAUSE ...
Shihab Shamma, Ph.D.
is giving a CELESTE distinguished lecture:
"Active listening: Rapid task-dependent plasticity of receptive fields in primary auditory cortex"
in the CNS seminar room at 2 pm (Room B01 in 677 Beacon Street)
For more information, see http://cns.bu.edu/CELEST/events/shammaannounce.html
April 8, 2005
Dan Sanes
Professor
Center for Neuroscience
New York University
"Developmental hearing loss alters synapse function in the auditory CNS"
Abstract:
Developmental hearing impairments compromise sound discrimination, speech acquisition and cognitive functions; however, the underlying synaptic properties in primary auditory cortex remain unexplored. We induced sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) in juvenile gerbils and subsequently found that membrane and synaptic properties were scaled to favor excitability. SNHL neurons displayed a higher incidence of sustained firing, stronger thalamus-evoked excitatory responses, and diminished intracortically-evoked GABAergic inhibition. Similar changes were found in the inferior colliculus. The cellular properties following deafness may reflect an attempt by the central auditory system to sustain an operative level of cortical excitability.
April 15, 2005 --- SPECIAL LOCATION
Yi Zhou
Boston University
Ph.D. Thesis Defense - Biomedical Engineering
"Neural Modeling of Binaural Interaction in the Mammalian Brainstem"
Location: 2 Cummington Street, Room 109B
[About one block down Cummington Street (toward Boston) at the Center for Memory & Brain Research]
April 22, 2005
Sarah Griffin, Wellcome Scholar
University College London
(currently visiting UConn Health Center)
"Sensitivity to Interaural Envelope Delays"
April 29, 2005
Irina Sigalovsky, Ph.D.
M.I.T.
"Structural and functional distinctions between auditory cortical areas
revealed with MRI in living humans"
May 3, 2005 -- 3:30 pm -- PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM
Jonathan Simon, Ph.D.
University of Maryland
"Measuring Brain Dynamics using SQUIDs: Investigating Auditory Processing with Magnetoencephalography"
Prof. Simon's Colloquium will be in the Metcalf Science Center: Room SCI-107, from 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Refreshments will be served at 3:15pm in the SCI 1st Floor Lounge.
May 4, 2005 -- NOON -- PIN/PMCN SEMINAR
Tony Zador, M.D.,Ph.D.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
"Cortical Representations for the Cocktail Party Problem"
Dr. Zador's talk will be in Room 113 of 5 Cummington Street at NOON.
May 5, 2005 -- 4:30 PM -- Harvard-MIT Hearing Sciences Lecture
Robert Shannon, Ph.D.
Dept. Computer Science & Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Hause Ear Institute
Los Angeles, CA
"Is there a Special Pathway for Speech in the Cochlear Nucleus?
Evidence from Auditory Brainstem Implants"
Dr. Shannon's lecture will be in the Meltzer Auditorium at the Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary, 243 Charles Street, Boston.
May 6, 2005
Michael Lewicki, Ph.D.
Dept. Computer Science & Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Carnegie Mellon University
"Information theoretic models of auditory coding"
May 13, 2005
Courtney Lane, Ph.D.
Rice University
"Listening in noise: A computational analysis of the consequences of
hearing impairment"
May 20, 2005 --- NO SEMINAR
(Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America in Vancouver)
May 27, 2005 --- NO SEMINAR
TBA
June 3, 2005
Micheal Dent, Ph.D.
SUNY Buffalo
"Hearing in Complex Acoustic Environments by Birds"
July 15, 2005 - FRIDAY at 10:30 am in ERB 203 (usual room)
Professor Charles E. Smith, Ph.D.
Program in Biostatistics
Department of Statistics
North Carolina State University
"Stochastic differential equation models for neural spike activity"
Wednesday September 28, 2005 -- 2:00 pm
44 Cummington Street (ERB, as usual) Room 401 --- SPECIAL DAY, TIME, AND ROOM
Jennifer M. Groh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Dartmouth
Title: TBA
October 7, 2005
John J. Guinan Jr., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Otology and Laryngology, HMS, MEEI
Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
Eaton Peabody Lab
"Medial-Olivocochlear-Efferent Effects on Basilar-Membrane and
Auditory-Nerve Responses to Clicks: Evidence for a New Motion Within The
Cochlea"
October 14, 2005 -- NO SEMINAR
October 21, 2005
Peter Tyack
Senior Scientist, Biology Department
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
"Echolocation of Deep Diving Toothed Whales"
October 28, 2005
Alex Spector
Associate Research Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University
"Mechanics of Hearing, Mathematical and Computational Methods"
November 4-5, 2005
November 11, 2005 -- NO SEMINAR (Veterans' Day)
November 18, 2005
November 25, 2005 -- NO SEMINAR (Thanksgiving Break)
December 2, 2005
December 9, 2005
December 16, 2005
BINAURAL BASH
Please contact Nancy Maguire
Lisa Olson, Ph.D.
Asst. Professor Otolaryn/Head & Neck Surgery
Asst. Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Columbia University
http://www.entcolumbia.org/profile/olson.htm
"Intracochlear pressure, otoacoustic emissions, and forward
and reverse cochlear traveling waves"
Bruce Schneider, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Director, CIHR Research Group On Sensory and Cognitive Aging
University of Toronto at Mississauga
http://www.erin.utoronto.ca/~w3cihrsc/Cihr/html/bruce.htm
"From Hearing to Cognition: Some Surprising Connections"
Abstract available here
Douglas L. Oliver, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience
University of Connecticut Health Center
http://doliver.uchc.edu/
"Laminar organization in the inferior colliculus."
Abstract available here
Arthur Wingfield, D.Phil.
Nancy Lurie Marks Professor of Neuroscience
Director, Volen National Center for Complex Systems
Brandeis University
http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/faculty/wingfield.html
Topic: Sensory-cognitive interactions and speech comprehension in adult aging