The Ear Club

Fall 2004 Unless otherwise stated, talks are at 4:00 in the Beach Room (3105 Tolman Hall) at UC Berkeley



9/7 Tuesday	Hugo Fastl Elec. Eng. Technical Univ, Munich	"Psychoacoustic basis of sound evaluation and sound quality
9/13	Chris Long MRC: Brain and Cognition Cambridge, UK	"Are Two Cochlear Implants Better than One?
9/20	Monita Chatterjee House Institute, LA Audiology, Univ. Maryland	"Cross-channel envelope interactions in cochlear implant listeners"
9/27	Manfred Schroeder Bell Labs/U. Göttingen, Germany	"Music and Math: the acoustics of Philharmonic Hall, New York, the Pierce scale and algorithms from number theory to create melodies"
10/4	Marjorie Leek Walter Reed Hosp Washington, DC	"Hearing Loss and the Perception of Complex Sounds"
10/11	Joe Hall III Division Otology U. North Carolina Med Chapel Hill	"What sequentially presented harmonics can tell us about models of pitch perception."
10/21	Robert Zatorre Neur.Inst. Human Auditory Cortex: McGill Univ. Montreal joint sponsor: HWNI, Berkeley	"Processing of music and speech by the human auditory cortex: Neuroimaging evidence"
10/25	Andy Moorer Regent's Lecturer U.C. Berkeley	"35 Years of Digital Audio in the Entertainment Industry"
10/19-20
11/1	Mathews, Max CCRMA/Stanford	"Early History of Computer Music at Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1957 to about 1970"
11/8	Lynn Werner Speech & Hearing U.Washington Seattle	"How infants deal with uncertainty"
11/15	Acoustical Society of America meeting
11/22	Thanksgiving holiday
12/6	Kourosh Saberi Psychology UC Irvine	"Psychological and neuro imaging studies of auditory motion processing"
SPRING 2005
1/31	Chris Stecker Human Cognition/Neurophysiology VA, Martinez	“Cortical organization and spatial hearing”
2/7	John Chowning CCRMA Stanford	“Computers, music and perception: forty years and still searching ”
2/17 Thursday	Israel Nelken Dept. Neurobiology Hebrew University Jerusalem joint sponsor: HWNI, Berkeley	“High-level and low-level sound representations in primary auditory cortex”
2/24	ARO meeting
3/7	Deniz Baskent Starkey Hearing Research Lab Berkeley	"Frequency selectivity in cochlear implants and sensorineural hearing loss"
3/14	Courtney Lane Electrical and Computer Engineering Rice University	"Listening in noise: normal neural mechanisms and the consequences of hearing impairment"
3/21	Spring Break
3/28	Erick Gallun Communication Disorders Boston University	"Some non-peripheral aspects of auditory masking"
4/4	Cancelled
4/7	Christophe Schreiner Neuroscience UCSF	“Spectral-temporal processing: impressions from the inferior colliculus to the cortex”
4/11	Alain de Cheveigne IRCAM Paris	“The case of the missing delay lines”
4/18	Sridahr Kalluri Starkey Hearing Research Lab Berkeley	“Neural correlates of harmonic fusion”
4/25	Jeff Wenstrup Department of Neurobiology N.E.Ohio University of Medicine	“Analysis of Complex Sounds: Centers in the Brain Neural Mechanisms and their Modulation by Emotional Centers in the Brain”
5/2	Virginia Richards Department of Psychology University of Pennsylvania	”Target detection with Random distractors”
5/9	Yale Cohen Department of Psychology and Brain Sciences Dartmouth College joint sponsor: HWNI, Berkeley	"Behavioral and neural correlates of functionally meaningful"