The Ear Club

Fall 1998 Unless otherwise stated, talks are at 4:00 in the Beach Room (3105 Tolman Hall) at UC Berkeley
8/31	Frederic Theunissen Department of Psychology U.C.Berkeley	"Song-selective auditory neurons in the avian forebrain"
9/7	LABOR DAY
9/14	Brent Edwards ReSound, Corp Redwood City, CA	"The evolution of signal processing and its application to the modern hearing aid"
9/21	Dan Ellis International Computer Science Inst. Berkeley	"The ICSI 1998 Broadcast News speech recognition project"
9/28	Monita Chatterjee House Ear Institute Los Angeles	"Electrically stimulated auditory perception"
9/29 Tuesday	Dennis McFadden Department of Psychology University of Texas, Austin SPECIAL TALK in Psychology	"What the Auditory System Can Tell Us about Human Development and Sexual Differentiation"
10/5	Srikantan Nagarajan Keck Center U.C.SanFrancisco	"Representation and learning of spatio-temporal perceptual phenomena"
10/9 Friday	Ilse Christine Gebeshuber University of Technology Vienna, Austria SPECIAL TALK at ICSI	"Stochastic and Deterministic Influences on the Peripheral Coding of Auditory Signals"
10/12	David Wessel Department of Music/CNMAT U.C.Berkeley	"Sound Spatialization and Related Issues at the Intersection of Music and Science"
10/19	Dan Levitin CCRMA Stanford	"The perception of cross-modal simultaniety --The Greenwich Observatory Problem revisited"
10/26	Mark Konishi Department of Behavior and Biology Caltech	"Brain mechanisms for sound localization in owls"
11/2	Nelson Morgan International Computer Science Inst. Berkeley	"Using Multiple Streams for Automatic Speech Recognition"
11/9	Robert Shannon House Ear Institute Los Angeles	"Effects of spectral and amplitude distortion on consonant and vowel recognition"
11/16	Eric Young Biomedical Engineering Johns Hopkins University Medical	"Parallel channels in the auditory brainstem"
11/23	Christopher deCharms Keck Crnter U.C.San Francisco	"The Cortical Representation of Sound by Individual Neurons and Populations"
Spring 1999
1/25	Frederic Theunissen Department of Psychology U.C.Berkeley	"Spectral-Temporal receptive fields of auditory neurons in the avian homologue of the auditory cortex"
2/1	Kourosh Saberi Biology and Behavior CalTech	"Neural Bases of an Auditory Illusion"
2/8	Jeff Bilmes CNMAT U.C.Berkeley	"Statistical Regularities of Natural Scenes:application to Automatic Speech Recognition"
2/15	P R E S I D E N T'S D A Y
2/22	Jamie Mazer Caltech Department of Psychology U.C.Berkeley	"Synthesis of Auditory Space Neurons in the Barn Owl"
3/1	Egbert De Boer Research Hospital Amsterdam, Netherlands	"Inside the Inner Ear"
3/2	James Hudspeth HITCHCOCK LECTURE (1)	"How the Ear's Works Work: Auditory Sensory Transduction"
3/4	James Hudspeth HITCHCOCK LECTURE (2)	"Getting in Tune: Auditory Frequency Selectivity"
3/8	Pierre DiVenyi Hearing and Speech Research VA Hospital, Martinez	"Spatial segregation based on amplitude and frequency modultaton"
3/15	Monty A. Escabi Keck Center U.C.San Francisco	"Spectro-temporal processing of naturalistic sounds in the cat auditory midbrain"
3/22	Spring Break
3/29	Hugh Livingston Yale University/CNMAT	"Trompe l'Oreille: Sleight of Hand in Cello Performance"
4/5	Bruce Berg Department of Psychology U.C.Irvine	"Psychoacoustic Models and Physiological Data: A New Link"
4/12	Jean Claude Risset CNRS, Marseille France	"Sound Synthesis Perception and Auditory lllusions"
4/12 8:00 pm	Concert of Risset's Music at CNMAT
4/19	Miriam Valenzuela Electrical Engineering Technical University, Munich Germany	"Auditory evaluation of the quality of musical instruments"
4/26	Maya Gratier Sorbonne Paris, France	"The Musical Shaping of Culture: studies in mother-infant interaction"
5/3	SPATIAL COGNITION MEETING IN BERKELEY
5/8	Len Kitzes Neuroscience U.C.Irvine	"Sequential influences on binaural interactions are often disquieting: A view from the inferior colliculus"

"Dimensionality of auditory segregation"