Hierarchies in Hearing

Paris, 18 and 19 December 2009

A workshop organized by Alain de Cheveigné , Israel Nelken and Daniel Pressnitzer .

Participants: Anne-Lise Giraud - Christian Lorenzi - Frank Ramus - Merav Ahissar - Laurent Demany - Makio Kashino - Naftali Tishby - David McAlpine - Misha Tsodyks - Jean-Marc Edeline - Olivier Bertrand - Leon Deouell - Maria Chait.

The workshop will take place at the École Normale Supérieure. Thursday 18 will be at the Amphithéatre Curien, 62 bis rue Gay Lussac (Map), and Friday 19 at the Salle des Actes, 45 rue d'Ulm (Map). The closest station is the Luxembourg RER station (on the "B" RER suburban train line, direct from Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport, Orly airport, and Gare du Nord train station for those arriving on Eurostar via the "Chunnel"). Also close are Cardinal-Lemoine, Monge and Censier-Daubenton Metro stations (Metro lines 10 and 7). The hotel is here (web site).

Programme: Each 30' slot comprises a 20' minute talk and a 10' discussion. Each session is followed by a 60' free-for-all discussion period.

Thursday 18: Friday 19:

9:15 INTRODUCTION
9:30 (20') Frank Ramus
10:00 (20') Merav Ahissar
10:30 (30') COFFEE
11:00 (20') Anne-Lise Giraud
11:30 (20') Christian Lorenzi
12:00 (60') DISCUSSION
13:00 (90') LUNCH
14:30 (20') Daniel Pressnitzer
15:00 (20') Laurent Demany
15:30 (20') Makio Kashino
16:00 (30') COFFEE
16:30 (20') Naftali Tishby
17:00 (20') Alain de Cheveigné
17:30 (60') DISCUSSION

8:45 INTRODUCTION
9:00 (20') David McAlpine
9:30 (20') Misha Tsodyks
10:00 (30') COFFEE
10:30 (20') Jean-Marc Edeline
11:00 (20') Israel Nelken
11:30 (60') DISCUSSION
12:30 (90') LUNCH
14:00 (20') Olivier Bertrand
14:30 (20') Leon Deouell
15:00 (20') Maria Chait
15:30 (60') DISCUSSION
16:30 END

Thursday morning is chaired by Naftali Tishby, Thursday afternoon by Israel Nelken. Friday morning is chaired by Alain de Cheveigné, Friday afternoon by Laurent Demany.

Titles:

Anne-Lise Giraud: A hierarchy of brain rhythms in speech processing.
Christian Lorenzi: Temporal fine structure cues in speech perception.
Frank Ramus: Auditory hierarchies in developmental dyslexia: the phonological access hypothesis.
Merav Ahissar: Auditory plasticity in the general population and in developmental dyslexia.
Daniel Pressnitzer: Auditory scene analysis: low-level and high-level processes.
Laurent Demany: Psychophysical evidence for frequency-shift detectors in the human auditory system.
Makio Kashino: Prediction and object formation in hearing.
Naftali Tishby: Perception, Action, and Predictive Information.
Alain de Cheveigné: Some ideas for the design of an auditory system.
David McAlpine: Hierarchical processing of auditory spatial cues.
Misha Tsodyks: Neural network model of auditory information processing with population spikes.
Jean-Marc Edeline: Spike-timing of thalamocortical neurons during natural stimuli.
Israel Nelken: Stimulus-specific adaptation in the auditory system.
Olivier Bertrand: Oscillatory dynamics of auditory attention.
Leon Deouell: The (small) effect of attention on processing of changes in the acoustic environment.
Maria Chait: Attentional load affects the processing of certain kinds of acoustic events but not others.

This workshop is funded by the Laboratoire Franco-Israelien de Neurophysiologie et Neurophysique des systemes.

[Audition team] [LPP] [DEC] [ENS] [CNRS] [Université Paris Descartes]