Seminars

DATE

SPEAKER

AFFILIATION

TOPIC

5/3/2012
Dr. Norm Weinberger
University of California, Irvine
"Associative Specific Representative Plasticity in Primary Auditory Cortex"
4/21/2012
 
 
Annual CHR Symposium
4/5/2012
Dr. Brenda 
Lonsbury-Martin
Loma Linda University
"Influence of basal sources of distortion product otoacoustic emissions on 
DP-gram loss patterns"
3/8/2012
Dr. Chris Lay
University of California, Irvine
"Activation of the auditory cortex following permanent MCA occlussion 
protects the cortex from ischemic stroke in the adult rat"
2/23/2012
Dr. Brian Moore
University of Cambridge
"Effects of hearing loss and age on sensitivity to temporal fine structure
for perception of pitch, speech, and lateralization"
2/21/2012
Dr. Van Wanrooj
Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
"Measuring auditory cortical activity of CI users with near-infrared 
spectroscopy"
1/18/2012
Dr. Ron D. Frostig
University of California, Los Angeles
"Protecting the brain from impending stroke"
11/17/2011
Dr. Xiangmin Xu
Vanderbilt University
"Cortical circuit organization, interaction and inhibitory neuronal control"
10/27/2011
Dr. Leonardo Cohen
University of Buenos Aires
"Mechanisms of neuroplasticity in neurorehabilitation"
09/27/2011
Dr. Dan Sanes
New York University
"The impact of early auditory experience on perceptual skills and synaptic
function"
09/21/2011
Dr. Katrien Vermeire
University of Ghent, Belgium
"Tinnitus suppression and auditory performance in single-sided deafened 
patients with a cochlear implant"
07/21/2011
Dr. Robert Lutfi
University of Wisconsin
"Environmental sound recognition by compressed sensing"
06/21/2011
Jason Sanchez
University of Washington
"Control of neuronal excitability by NMDA-Rs in developing binaural auditory 
neurons"
06/17/2011
Dr. Alana Kirby
University of California, Irvine
Cortical Codes in Electric Hearing
05/26/2011
Dr. Elliot Botvinick
University of California, Irvine
"Beam me down Scotty: biophotonic investigations of cellular
mechanobiology"
04/07/2011
Dr. Michael Leon
University of California, Irvine
Sensory Treatment of Developmental Disorders
03/23/2011
Dr. Sushrat Kale
Purdue University
Quantifying temporal coding in auditory-nerve fibers following
sensorineural hearing loss
02/25/2011
Dr. Peter Bremen
Katholic University of Leuven in Belguim
Binaural lemniscal recordings in the chinchilla (Chinchilla laniger)
02/10/2011
Dr. Victor Pikov
Huntington Medical
Research Institutes
Advantages of studying tinnitus in the cat model and
Non-invasive neuromodulation with mm waves
02/03/2011
Dr. Ed Rubel
University of Washington
Fishing Expeditions; An update.
12/09/2010
Dr. Raju Metherate
University of California, Irvine
Arc expression and neuroplasticity in primary auditory cortex during
initial learning are inversely related to neural activity.
Carpenter-Hyland EP, Plummer TK, Vazdarjanova A, Blake DT.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2010 Aug 17;107(33):14828-32. Epub 2010 Jul 30.
11/18/2010 Dr. Jeffrey Wenstrup Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy
The analysis of social vocalizations by amygdalar neurons.
09/30/2010 Dr. Neal F. Viemeister University of Minnesota Auditory Enhancement, Grouping and Frequency Resolution
07/28/2010 Dr. Jennifer Lentz Indiana University Temporal asymmetry in the auditory system
6/16/2010 Marc Brennan University of Washington Relating Aided Temporal Processing to Aided Speech Recognition
5/26/2010 Dr. Renu Raghuraman     Art and Yoga as Healing Modalities
5/19/2010 Christopher Bennett  University of Miami   Use of Swept-Tone Stimuli in the Acquisition of Click-Like OAEs
3/30/10 Dr. Alison Grimes UCLA Clinical Problems Engineers Can Help Solve
3/24/10 Akiko Amano Oregon Health Sciences University Effect of speaking style and speaking rate on formant contours
3/10/10 Dr. David Landsberger House Ear Institute
Simultaneous Use of Current Steering and Current
Focusing
11/4/09 Dr. Arnold Starr UC, Irvine The Origins of Objective Measures of Hearing
2/27/09 Myles McLaughlin, Ph.D. Candidate Leuven University, Belgium "Phase Shifts in Monaural Field Potentials of the Medial Superior Olive."

12/18/08

Cheryl Eiler, AuD Starkey Hearing and Research Lab, Berkeley The benefit of binaural hearing to spatial perception

12/3/08

Yoshi Asahi
Real Sound Lab USA
Presentation of patented CONEQ technology; "hearing aid mode" demo

10/22/08

Assal Habibi, Graduate Student University of California Irvine, Department of Cognitive Sciences McDermott, H.J. (2004). "Music Perception with Cochlear Implants: A Review." Trends in Amplification. 8(2):49-82.

Kong, Y.Y. et al. (2004). "Music Perception with Temporal Cues in Acoustic and Electric Hearing." Ear and Hearing. 25(2):173-185.

8/14/08

Dr. Laurie Eisenberg
House Ear Institute
"Pediatric Cochlear Implantation: The Past as Prelude"

6/16/08

Dr. JongMo Seo, Assistant Professor Seoul National University "Artificial vision research on the basis of micro-bioelectronic technologies (abstract)

5/14/08

Erin Maloff, Audiologist/ Ph.D. Student
Vanderbilt University
Chirp evoked auditory brainstem response and Auditory motion perception in humans: an event-related potential study

1/30/08

Dr. David Zhou Second Sight Medical Products, Inc., Sylmar, CA “Microelectrodes for Neural Implants: Progresses and Challenges ”  (abstract)

1/23/08

Dr. William Martin
Oregon Health & Science University

"Radical tinnitus research: Probing the brain and its role in the ringing" (abstract)

12/19/07

Dr. Gerald A. Maguire, Senior Associate Dean, Educational Affairs

Dr. David Franklin, Assistant Clinical Professor

Psychiatry for Stuttering Treatment, Psychiatry & Human Behavior at UC Irvine "The neurologic basis and pharmacologic treatment of stuttering" 

11/13/07 

Dr. Peter Steyger
Oregon Health & Science University

“Aminoglycoside trafficking across the blood-labyrinth barrier to hair cells ”  (abstract)

8/7/07

Dr. Bob Shannon House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, CA "Auditory Brainstem Implants and the Zeng Hump: Evidence for Dual Processing Streams in the Auditory System"

7/31/07 

Yang-soo Yoon, Ph.D candidate
Department of Speech and Hearing Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“Perceptual confusions for temporally smoothed envelope of syllables in noise”  (abstract)

7/24/07

Vincent Jourdes Neurelec-MXM, France "Neurelec-MXM, the company, the products the Digisonic® SP cochlear implant system" (abstract)

6/28/07 

Dr. David He, Associate Professor

Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska

“Cochlear Hair cells: From Mechanotransduction to Synaptic Transmission”  (abstract)

6/21/07

Dr. Mirna Mustapha, Postdoctoral Researcher University of Michigan, Department of Human Genetics "Understanding hearing loss in thyroid hormone deficient mice" (abstract)

6/14/07 

Dr. John Middlebrooks, Professor

University of Michigan, Department of Otolaryngology

“Auditory Cortex at the Cocktail Party: Some Studies of Spatial Hearing" (abstract)

6/07/07

Dr. Bishnu Atal University of Washington, Seattle "Personal Reflections on Research in Speech Coding: From LPC (linear predictive coding) to CELP (code-excited linear prediction" (abstract)

5/8/07 

Dr. Duo (Dustin) Zhang
Michigan Technological University, Postdoctoral Researcher
"Cognitive radio - the next-generation radio technology to alleviate the spectrum scarcity problem" (abstract)

4/20/07

Justin Aronoff University of Southern California "The role of noise in facilitating the identification of tunes with missing notes" (abstract)

1/29/06 

Dr. Leonid Litvak, Principal Scientist

Auditory R&D

Advanced Bionics Corporation

"Cochlear Implant Research and Development"

1/16/07

Dr. Ed Rubel, Professor Department of Otolaryngology, Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington Seattle "Critical periods, brain developments and microarrays" (abstract)

11/8/06 

Dr. Blake Wilson, professor
RTI International and Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina "Cochlear implants: A remarkable past and a brilliant future" (abstract)

8/29/06

Dr. Ali Mazaheri FC Donders Institute in Nijmegen, Netherlands "Investigating the relationship between visual evoked fields and ongoing background oscillations" (click here for related paper)

8/22/06 

Dr. Hillel Pratt, Professor
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology "Electrophysiological functional imaging of auditory processing in humans"

5/16/06

Francis "Sandy" Spelman, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus, Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington
Senior Researcher, Advanced Cochlear Systems

"Bringing Hearing to the Deaf: Challenges for MEMS"

5/15/06 

Gerald E. Loeb, M.D.
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California "Neural Prostheses: Crossing the Last Meter in Personal Telecommunications"

4/6/06

Dr. Xiaoqin Wang Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine “Information Processing in Auditory Cortex” (abstract)

10/21/05 

Dr. Tom Lu

Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biomedical Engineering

"Temporal processing in the primate auditory cortex" (abstract)

10/6/05

Professor Huanping Dai Department of Communication Disorders, University of Wyoming "Pitch of simple and complex sounds"

8/8/05 

Dr. Chaogang Wei

Cochlear Implants Center of Peking Union Medical College Hospital

"Cochlear Implants in China"

8/5/05

Dr. Andrew Vandali

CRC HEAR Melbourne, Australia

"Temporal Pitch Perception in Cochlear Implantees" (abstract)

7/20/05 

Dr. Joni Doherty

House Ear Institute

"HER2 Regulation of Vestibular Schwannomas" (abstract)

6/22/05

Yi-Wen Liu, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Electrical Engineering

Stanford University

"Audio watermarking through parametric signal representations" (abstract)

5/11/05 

Dr. Sumiko Takayanagi

CalTech

"Lexical and Talker variability Effects on Spoken Word Recognition"

5/4/05

Dr. Yvonne Sininger

University California, Los Angeles

"Asymmetry in Low Levels of the Auditory System: Do we hear differently with the left and right ear?" (abstract)

4/20/05

Yingyong Qi

Qualcomm

"An Overview of Speech Coding in Wireless Communication"

3/22/05

Professor Milind N. Kunchur

University of South Carolina

"Acoustics, Perception and Reproduction of Music" (abstract)

3/16/05

Mohammed Zadissa

Connexant

Linear Predictive Modeling and Noise Reduction for Speech

2/18/05

Dr. Chen Lin

University of Science and Technology of China

"Peripheral Auditory Processes in Birds" (abstract)

1/19/05

Jason Edwards

Medical Electronics

MedEl Research and Technology

1/12/05

Dr. Vasant Dasika

Boston University

"Inhibitory feedback in a network model of auditory brainstem: Implications for sound localization" (abstract)

12/08/04

Dr. Todd Hillman

University of Utah

“The Machine-Man Interface:  Current and Future Perspectives on Neural Prosthesis in the World of Otolaryngology.” (abstract)

11/16/04

Dr. Christopher Danner

University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

 "Congenital Hearing Loss" (abstract to come)

07/21/04

Dr. King Chung

Purdue University

The application and practical concerns of advanced hearing aid signal processing technologies to enhance cochlear implants (abstract)

06/25/04

Lina Reiss

Johns Hopkins University

Coding of Vertical Sound Localization Cues by Type IV Neurons in the Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (abstract)

05/12/04

Anna Blasi

Consultant, BME Department, USC

Time-varying characterization of the cardiovascular response to arousal from sleep (abstract)

05/10/04

Monita Chatterjee

Scientist II, House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, CA

Complex stimulus processing by cochlear implant listeners (abstract)

12/03/03

Jack Xin

University of Texas, Austin

Nonlinear Waves in the Ear and Sound Signal Processing (abstract)

11/13/03

Robert V. Shannon

Biomedical Engineering
USC and House Ear Institute

Cochlear Implants and Auditory Brainstem Implants: Understanding auditory processing through prosthetic stimulation of hearing (abstract)

11/06/03

Mario Svirsky

Indiana University School of Medicine

Adaptation to a modified peripheral frequency map (abstract)

10/24/03

Ming Zhang

Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Toneburst electrocochleography with ear canal electrode and its advantages (abstract)

10/16/03

Daniel M. Merfeld

Harvard Medical School

Progress toward the development of a neurovestibular prosthesis (abstract)

10/03/03

Luc Van Immerseel

University of Antwerp

SPAIDE

2003

Jose Fayad

Columbia University

Middle ear implants

2003

David Kailey

Vanderbilt University

Effects of steroid therapy on autoimmune sensorineural hearing loss

07/10/03

Jon Shallop

Mayo Clinic

Objective measures of cochlear implant effects on auditory functions revealed in the operating room

06/13/03

Ted Meyer

University of Iowa

Models of phoneme and word recognition with cochlear implants 

06/12/03

John Hershey

University of California - San Diego

Speech enhancement using graphical models for lip-reading and pitch tracking

06/03/03

Dave Moore

Oxford University

Auditory experience as a cause and treatment of central auditory processing disorder

04/07/03

John Grose

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

Binaural Hearing in Children

12/09/02

Larry Feth

Ohio State University

Spectral center-of-gravity effects in auditory processing

06/10/02

Beverly Wright

Northwestern University

Auditory Perceptual Learning

03/13/02

Ann Bradlow

Northwestern University

Production and Perception of Clear Speech

2001

LI Xu

University of Michigan

Neural codes of sound localization

2000

Ruth Litovsky

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Madison Binaural hearing

 

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