New Ideas in Hearing 2012: Hot topics in Audiology

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Programme summary

Programme details

Monday 2nd

Session I: Auditory deficits
Chaired by: Trevor Agus

09:00 - 09:25	Brian C.J. Moore	"What is temporal fine structure good for?" Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
09:25 - 09:50	Chris Plack	"Effects of inner and outer hair cell dysfunction on cochlear gain and compression" Human Communication & Deafness Division, School of Psychological Sciences, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
09:50 - 10:15	Kelly Tremblay	"Hearing aids and brain: what's the connection?" Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
10:45 - 11:10	Christian Fullgrabe	"Age-related changes in auditory perception" MRC - Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham, UK.
11:10 - 11:35	Joost M. Festen	"Auditory and cognitive processing in speech recognition" Department of ENT/Audiology, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
11:35 - 12:00	Deniz Baskent	"Two ways hearing impairment can interact with cognitive processing" Department of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; School of Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.

Session II: Modelling and Physiology
Chaired by: Marcel Stimberg and Marc Rebillat

13:30 - 13:55	Mike Heinz	"Physiological correlates of perceptual TFS deficits with sensorineural hearing loss" Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA; Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA.
13:55 - 14:20	Ian C. Bruce	"Modeling changes in auditory nerve fiber excitability for acoustic and electric stimulation" Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
14:20 - 14:45	Ray Meddis	"Modelling the efferent contribution to hearing speech in noise" Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK.
15:15 - 15:40	Jay T. Rubinstein	"Biophysical simulation of responses to electrical stimulation" Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
15:40 - 16:05	Christophe Micheyl	"Revisiting the place-vs-time debate, from the ground up" Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
16:05 - 16:30	Shihab Shamma	"Role of coherence and rapid-plasticity in active perception of complex auditory scenes" Neural Systems Laboratory, Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, Washington, USA.
17:00 - 17:25	Sebastien Santurette	"How essential are place and temporal fine-structure cues for high-frequency complex pitch?" Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
17:25 - 17:50	Chris Sumner	"Is mode-locking the new phase-locking? Complex temporal encoding of periodicity in cochlear nucleus" MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham, UK.
18:05 - 18:30	Enrique A. Lopez Poveda	"Quantifying inner and outer hair cell loss in listeners with mild-to-moderate cochlear hearing loss" Unidad de Audicion Computacional y Psicoacustica, Instituto de Neurociencias de Castilla y Leon, Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain.
18:30 - 18:55	Hedwig Gockel	"Does the Frequency Following Response (FFR) reflect pitch?" MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK.

Tuesday 3rd

Session III: Hearing Aids
Chaired by: Tim Ives

09:00 - 09:25	Wouter A. Dreshler	"Perceptual effects of noise reduction in hearing aids" Academic Medical Center, KNO-Audiology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
09:25 - 09:50	Birger Kollmeier	"Models for speech intelligibility in rooms and their consequences for hearing aid processing" Medical Physics Section, Carl von Ossietzky-Universitat Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
09:50 - 10:15	Olaf Strelcyk	"Bio-inspired hearing-aid design" Starkey Hearing Research Center, Berkeley, USA.
10:45 - 11:10	Sridhar Kalluri	"Toward a laboratory measure of hearing-aid Outcome in real-world multi-talker environments" Starkey Hearing Research Center, Berkeley, USA.
11:10 - 11:35	Mike Stone	" 'Listening in the dips': the dynamic depth and range achievable by the hearing impaired" Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
11:35 - 12:00	Brent Edwards	"How hearing aid technology can affect cognitive function" Starkey Hearing Research Center, Berkeley, USA.

Session IV: Implants
Chaired by: Jonathan Laudanski

13:30 - 13:55	Collette McKay	"Temporal processing in CI, ABI and AMI users" Audiology and Deafness Research Group, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
13:55 - 14:20	Robert V. Shannon	"New results with auditory brainstem implants" House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, USA.
14:20 - 14:45	Jan Wouters	"Enhanced temporal coding can lead to improved sound perception in cochlear implants" ExpORL, Department of Neurosciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
15:15 - 15:40	Ward Drennan	"Perception of frequency-modulation patterns based on recovered-envelope cues for cochlear implant listeners" V. M. Bloedel Hearing Research Center, Department of Otolaryngology, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
15:40 - 16:05	Norbert Dillier	"Neurophysiologically-based coding strategy for cochlear implants" Laboratory of Experimental Audiology, ENT Department, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.
16:05 - 16:30	Bernhard Seeber	"Trading of temporal fine structure and envelope cues leads to robust localization in reverb" MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham, UK.
17:00 - 17:25	Patrick Boyle	"AGC performance revealed by the STAR roving level speech test and the impact of speech rate" Advanced Bionics, Cambridge, UK.
17:25 - 17:50	Kaibao Nie	"Encoding harmonics to improve speech, music and mandarin tone perception with cochlear implants" Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Department of Electrical Engineering, Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
17:50 - 18:15	David McAlpine	"Making bilateral binaural" Ear Institute, University of London, London, UK.

Wednesday 4th

Session V: Development
Chaired by: Laurianne Cabrera

09:00 - 09:25	Carolina Abdala	"Maturation of human cochlear function" House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, USA.
09:25 - 09:50	Lynne Werner	"Temporal aspects of infants' attention to sound" Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.
09:50 - 10:15	Quentin Summerfield	"Spatio-temporal brain activity during multi-talker listening in younger and older adults" Department of Psychology, The University of York, York, UK.
10:45 - 11:10	David Horn	"Spectral ripple inversion detection - A method to assess spectral resolution in infants" Seattle Children's, Seattle, USA.
11:10 - 11:35	Paul Deltenre	"The Frequency-Following Response: an ancient tool re-sharpened to the benefit of new ideas" Faculty of Medicine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium.
11:50 - 12:15	Susan Nittrouer	"Developmental changes in perceptual attention and organization for speech: implications for cochlear implant design" Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, Ohio State University Medical School, Colombus, USA.