Basic Auditory Science – the cutting edge

Cardiff University

3rd and 4th September 2015

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Programme

Thursday 3/9/15

09:00Oral Presenations (Julian Hodge Lecture Theatre)

09:00Owen Brimijoin "The 'equivalent arc' for auditory motion and the non-uniformity of acoustic space"

09:20Tom Freeman "Perceiving auditory motion during head movement"

09:40Adele Goman " Azimuthal differences in spatial acuity: Evidence from a speech in noise task"

10:00Kate Roberts "Auditory enumeration of concurrent and sequential sounds"

10:20John Culling "Sluggishness with the phasewarp stimulus"

10:40Break (40 Mins)

11:20Hedwig Gockel "Zwicker tones: A musical pitch percept?"

11:40Agnes Leger " Beyond the audiogram: influence of supra-threshold deficits associated with hearing loss and age on... "

12:00Ray Meddis "Reflections on a smartphone hearing aid"

12:20Massimo Grassi "The relationship between auditory performance and cognitive performance in older musicians"

12:40Brian Moore "The TFS-AF test for assessing sensitivity to interaural phase"

13:00LunchBSA AGM(60 mins)

14:00Posters (Music Auditorium)

17:00time out

18:00Dinnner (Aberdare Hall)

20:00Posters + wine (Music Auditorium)

23:00Remove posters

Friday 4/9/15

09:00Oral Presenations (Julian Hodge Lecture Theatre)

09:00Neil Ingham "The zinc finger protein Zfp719 is involved in the maintenance of hearing function in the mouse"

09:20Karen Steel "New insights into the causes of deafness"

09:40Abigail Tucker "Eustachian tube muscle defects lead to otitis media in a mouse model of 22q11.2 syndrome"

10:00 Bob Carlyon "Across-electrode variations in rate discrimination and gap detection in cochlear implant users"

10:20Jacques Grange "Realising the head-shadow benefit to cochlear implant users"

10:40Break (40 Mins)

11:20Tobias Goehring "Neural network based speech enhance,emt applied to cochlear implant coding strategies"

11:40Gaston Hilkhuysen "Empirically Optimizing PSHCs to Minimize Intrinsic Modulations After Auditory Filtering"

12:00 Kerry Walker "Cues and codes for pitch perception in the ferret"

12:20Atilgan Huriye "The effect of AV temporal coherence on the representation of one of two competing sound streams in ferret auditory cortex"

12:40Mark Sayles "Binaural Tuning and Timing in Neurons from the Chinchilla Medial Superior Olive"

13:00Lunch (60 mins)

14:00Katrin Krumbholz " A hierachrchy of tuning to spectrally resolved pitch in human auditory cortex"

14:20Stephen Town "Allocentric representation of sound location in Auditory Cortex"

14:40Bas Olsof "Nitric oxide mechanisms in the inferior colliculus"

15:00end of meeting