The Ear Club

Fall 2006 Unless otherwise stated, talks are at 4:00 in the Beach Room (3105 Tolman Hall) at UC Berkeley
7/31	David McAlpine Ear Institute University College London UK	"Sound Localization in Monkeys and Man"
8/21	Josh McDermott Perceptual Science Group MIT	"Empirical Constraints on the Evolutionary Origins of Music"
9/4	Labor Day
9/11	Matt Wright CCRMA Stanford
9/18	Cancelled
9/25	I-Hui Hsieh Cognitive Sciences U.C.Irvine	“Pitch production and linguistic encoding by absolute-pitch musicians"
10/2	Pierre Divinyi Neuroscience Center Martinez, CA	“The time-course of listening to Speech and Hearing bands”
10/9	Jürgen Peissig Sennheiser Palo Alto	“New developments in audio technology”
10/16	Neurosciences meeting
10/23	Frederic Theunissen Department of Psychology U.C.Berkeley	“Parallel streams for processing spectral and temporal features of complex sounds: Evidence from fMRI and single unit recordings in songbirds”
10/30	Kelly Fitz Starkey Hearing Aid Research Lab Berkeley	“Techniques for Digital Sound Morphing”
11/6	Anne-Marie Bonnel Psychology U.C.Berkeley	“Weber’s Law: listening in the sensory-trace or context mode”
11/13	Veronica Eckstein Department of Psychology U.C.Irvine	“Off-frequency listening in a pitch matching experiment”
11/20	Huanping Dai Communication Disorders University of Wyoming	“Predicting Psychometric Functions for Auditory Detection Based on Neural Data”
11/27	Acoustical Society meeting
12/4	Chris Plack Psychology Univesity of Lancaster UK	“Neural Coding of Pitch”
Spring 2007
1/29	Barbara Shinn-Cunningham Cognitive and Neural Systems Biomedical Engineering Boston University	"Influences of space on streaming and understanding sound sources"
2/5	No Ear Club. Instead, Daniel Kahneman, Hitchock Lectures International House 4:10 pm 2299 Piedmont Ave. “Intuition: The Marvels and the Flaws”	(1) "Influences of space on streaming and understanding sound sources"
2/6	Daniel Kahneman	(2) “Happiness: Living and Thinking about It”
2/12	ARO Meeting
2/19	Veterans Day
2/23 Friday 11:00	ICBS; 5101 Tolman Hall Brian Moore Department of Psychology University of Cambridge UK	“The Role of Temporal Fine Structure in Pitch Perception and Speech Perception”
2/26	Hedwig Gockel Cognitition and Brain Science Medical Research Council Cambridge, UK	“Pitch discrimination interference (PDI): Monaural and binaural pitches”
3/1 Thurs. 11:00	Redwood Institute,5101 Tolman Hiroki Asari Watson School,Biol Sci. Cold Spring Harbor	“Sparse Representations for the Cocktail Party Problem”
3/5	Steve Greenberg CNMAT U.C.Berkeley	“Spectro-temporal processing of speech – An information-theoretic approach"
3/12	Sunil Puria Mechanical Engineering Stanford	“Imaging, Physiology and Biomechanics of the middle ear"
3/13 Tuesday 10:30 Beach Rm	Norman Weinberger Neurobiology and Behavior U.C.Irvine	“Discussions of a radical proposal: A1, S1 and V1) are not sensory cortices in the ordinary sense; i.e., they don't perform sensory analyses independent of behaviorally relevant factors"
3/19	Manfred Schroeder University of Gottingen German Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ	“Sound, Rooms, Music and Mathematics”
3/26	Spring Break
4/2	Tom Rossing CCRMA Stanford	“Acoustics of Percussion Instruments”
4/9	Gareth Loy Gareth Inc. San Rafael, CA	“Musical Scale Designers -- the First Psychoacousticians”
4/16	Lorenzo Picinali & Dylan Menzies Music,Technology & Innovative. Res. De Montfort Univ. Leicester, UK	“The simulation of three dimensional soundscapes through headphones: problems and possible solutions"
4/23	Abhi Kulkarni Advance Bionics Valencia, CA	“Novel speech strategies for cochlear implants”
4/30	Cindy Moss Department of Psychology University of Maryland	“What the bat's voice tells the bat's brain”
5/7	Don Buchla Buchla and Assoc. Berkeley	“Buchla Daze”