2005 Seminars Archive






			Past Seminars 2006 January 20, 2006 Maoz Shamir, Ph.D. Center for Bio-Dynamics Mathematics Department Boston University Topic: Discussion of problems related to neural coding of sound and visual stimuli. January 27, 2006 Nadine Gaab, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Mass. Institute of Technology http://web.mit.edu/gabrieli-lab/people/gaab.htm "The challenge of auditory experiments in the MRI scanner and the influence of musicianship on auditory spectro-temporal processing." February 3, 2006 Patrick Wolfe, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering Harvard University http://www.deas.harvard.edu/~patrick "Time-Frequency Representations and Statistical Models for Audio and Auditory Signal Analysis" Abstract available here February 10, 2006 Christopher Bergevin MIT HST-SHBT Program Topic: Looking comparatively at OAEs across mammals (humans) and non-mammals (geckos). Abstract available here February 15, 2006 - SPECIAL SEMINAR - WEDNESDAY, USUAL TIME (10:30AM) USUAL PLACE (ERB 203) Prof. Dr. Benedikt Grothe Chair of Neurobiology Biocenter Munich University (LMU) "Development of binaural properties in the mammalian auditory brainstem" February 17, 2006 Michael Buschermöhle International Graduate School for Neurosensory Science and Systems University of Oldenburg http://www.icbm.de/~buschermoehle "Signal Detection Enhanced by Comodulated Noise" Abstract available here February 24, 2006 -- SPECIAL ROOM (5 Cummington Street) Peter Tyack, Ph.D. Senior Scientist Biology Department Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution http://www.whoi.edu/scitechdir/staff.go?id=5 "Echolocation of Deep Diving Toothed Whales" March 03, 2006 Sarah Poissant, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Communication Disorders School of Public Health and Health Sciences University of Massachusetts, Amherst http://www.umass.edu/sphhs/comdis/faculty.html "The Impact of Reverberation, Masking, and Cochlear Implant Processing on Speech Perception" Abstract available here March 10, 2006 --NO SEMINAR -- (BU Spring Break) March 17, 2006 --- SPECIAL TIME --- NOON!! Domenica Karavitaki, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Neurobiology Harvard Medical School Research Associate, Howard Hughes Medical Institute http://web.mit.edu/hst/35/profiles/karavitaki.html "High-Speed Micromechanics of the Hair Cell Bundle: How Does it Move and What Does that Mean for Channel Gating?" March 24, 2006 --- SPECIAL TIME --- NOON!! Tianying Ren Oregon Hearing Research Center Oregon Health & Science University http://www.ncrar.org/staff/ren.htm "Basilar membrane vibration in sensitive gerbil cochlea March 31, 2006 Richard Freyman, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Communication Disorders School of Public Health and Health Sciences University of Massachusetts, Amherst http://www.umass.edu/sphhs/comdis/faculty.html "Binaural and spatial hearing in anechoic and reverberant environments, and improving speech understanding in competing noise" April 7, 2006 --- NO SEMINAR --- Shig Kuwada's seminar has been moved to May 5 (see below). April 14, 2006 --- HAUSER SEMINAR POSTPONED TO FALL Professor Mark Hauser will be rescheduled to a date next fall. CELESTE SEMINAR AT CNS AT 2 PM Barbara Shinn-Cunningham "Communicating in a natural cocktail party: Relating human and avian behavior to neural response" Seminar Location: Auditorium, Room B02 Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems 677 Beacon Street Refreshments after the lecture in Room B01 This lecture is sponsored by the CENTER FOR ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS, DEPARTMENT OF COGNITIVE AND NEURAL SYSTEMS, AND CENTER OF EXCELLENCE FOR LEARNING IN EDUCATION, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY (CELEST) BOSTON UNIVERSITY April 21, 2006 Mal Teich, Ph.D. Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Boston University "Fractal-Based Point Processes and Sensory-System Neural Spike Trains" http://people.bu.edu/teich April 28, 2006 --- NO SEMINAR (BME SENIOR PROJECT DAY) Senior Project Presentations are open to the public. They will be held in the B.U. Photonics Building at 8 St. Mary's Street (not far from Cummington Street) starting at 7:45 am. For more information, including the schedule, see the web site: http://www.bu.edu/dbin/bme/news/index.php?eventitem=52&events=52 May 5, 2006 Shigeyuki Kuwada, Ph.D. Professor Department of Neuroscience University of Connecticut Health Center "Research to understand the neural basis of binaural hearing" June 1, 2006 --- SPECIAL SEMINAR --- NOTE TIME AND DAY!! 3:30 PM --- THURSDAY!! --- USUAL PLACE Ruth Litovsky Department of Communicative Disorders and The Waisman Center University of Wisconsin, Madison http://www.waisman.wisc.edu/~litovsky "What we can tell about binaural hearing from children and adults with bilateral cochlear implants" September 22, 2006 Rajiv Narayan Natural Sounds and Neural Coding Lab Hearing Research Center Boston University "Discrimination of complex sounds by cortical neurons" September 29, 2006 David Mountain, Ph.D. Professor of Biomedical Engineering Hearing Research Center Boston University "Simulating the effects of man-made sound in the marine environment" October 06, 2006 Matthew McGinley Neuroscience Graduate Program Vollum Institute Oregon Health & Science University "Compensation for the cochlear traveling wave delay in the dendrites of auditory brainstem neurons" October 13, 2006 --- TBA Steve Colburn, Yi Zhou, Yoojin Chung, and Andrew Brughera Hearing Research Center and Department of Biomedical Engineering Boston University "Modeling of neural responses to electrical stimulation of the cochlea" October 20-21, 2006 BINAURAL BASH Please contact Nancy Maguire for more information and/or to RSVP. October 27, 2006 John Middlebrooks, Ph.D. Professor of Otolaryngology University of Michigan Medical School Director, Central Systems Laboratory Kresge Hearing Research Institute http://www.khri.med.umich.edu/faculty/middlebrooks.php Topic: A new approach to auditory prosthesis November 3, 2006 Christoph Schreiner, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Neuroscience University of California, San Francisco Director, Central Systems Laboratory Kresge Hearing Research Institute http://www.ucsf.edu/neurosc/faculty/neuro_schreiner.html "Receptive Field Transformations in Auditory Cortex: What, Where, When, and How?" November 10, 2006 No Seminar. Veterans Day November 17, 2006 Robert Shannon, Ph.D. Head, Department of Auditory Implants and Perception Research House Ear Institute http://www.hei.org/news/bios/shannonbio.htm "Electrical stimulation of the Human Cochlea, Brainstem and Midbrain: Implications for speech pattern recognition" November 24, 2006 No Seminar. Thanksgiving December 1, 2006 Paul Abbas, Ph.D. Professor of Speech Pathology The University of Iowa http://neuroscience.grad.uiowa.edu/faculty/pages/paul-abbas.html "Auditory nerve responses to electrical stimulation in ears with functional hair cells" Abstract: Measures of the electrically evoked compound action potential and single nerve fiber recordings in experimental animals will be presented. Those data will be compared to ECAP measures in human cochlear implant users. The focus of this work is the interaction of acoustic and electric stimulation in ears with functional hair cells. December 8, 2006 Joel Snyder, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychiatry Harvard Medical School http://pnl.bwh.harvard.edu/people/profiles/snyder.html "Effects of Context on Auditory Stream Segregation" December 15, 2006 Marc Hauser, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychology Harvard University http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/~mnkylab/LPPI.html "From pattern recognition to grammatical processing: Experiments with nonhuman primates"

Past Seminars 2006