| 02/07/19 | | Dr. Bob Carlyon (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge). "What can basic perceptual measures tell us about how to improve speech perception by cochlear implant listeners?" Venue: Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Time: 2:15 pm |
| 14/06/19 | | Dr. Jonathan Peelle (Department of Otolaryngology, Washington University in Saint Louis). "Measuring and overcoming cognitive challenge in speech comprehension." Venue: Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Time: 12:00 noon |
| 12/06/19 | | 7th Improving Cochlear Implant Performance (ICIP) Meeting. MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, CB2 7EF. Time: 10:30 am - 6:00 pm (Download the conference booklet here: ICIP_2019_booklet_final.pdf) |
| 06/06/19 | | Prof. Jonathan Simon (University of Maryland, College Park, USA). "Transformations from Auditory to Lexical Representations, across Auditory Cortex, are Rapid and Attention Dependent." Venue: Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Time: 1:00 pm |
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29/05/19
| | Dr. Robert Luke (Macquarie University, Sydney, and Bionics Institute, Melbourne, Australia). "Objective measures of binaural processing." Venue: Lecture Theatre, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Time: 2:00 pm |
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02/04/19
| | Mathilde Kerangal (UCL Ear Institute, London, UK). "Sensitivity to regular structure in complex acoustic scenes – an ageing study." Venue: Lecture Theatre on the ground floor of the main Psychology building in the Downing Site. Time: 2:00 pm |
| 25/03/19 | | Dr. Owen Brimijoin (Facebook Reality Labs, Seattle, USA). "A perceptual approach to binaural audio." Venue: Lecture Theatre on the ground floor of the main Psychology building in the Downing Site. Time: 2:15 pm |
| 22/01/19 | | Amanda Fullerton (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia). "Is cross-modal reorganisation adaptive or maladaptive for speech recognition outcomes in post-lingually deaf cochlear implant users?" Venue: West Wing Seminar Room, MRC-CBU, Chaucer Road. Time: 2:15 pm |
| 16/01/19 | | Dr. Joseph Kei (University of Queensland, Australia). "Wideband absorbance in patients with cholesteatoma." Venue: Lecture Theatre on the ground floor of the main Psychology building in the Downing Site. Time: 2:15 pm |
| 07/12/18 | | Hearing Group Christmas Symposium. Venue: Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St. John’s College. Time: 9.20am-5.20 pm [ Cambridge_Hearing_Group_xmas_2018_Draft.doc] |
| 27/09/18 | | Prof John Middlebrooks (University of California at Irvine) "The cochlear implant plus one." Venue: Large South Pole Meeting Room (first floor), MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Time: 2:15 pm |
| 10/09/18 | | Dr. Andrew Thwaites (University of Cambridge) "Representations of time varying loudness in the human cortex." Venue: Lecture Theatre, Psychology building, ground floor. Time: 2:15 pm |
| 21/06/18 | | Laurent Demany (Univ. Bordeaux) "In search of the mechanism of harmonic fusion.” Venue: CBU lecture theatre. Time: 3.30 pm (Hosted by Bob Carlyon) |
| 19/03/18 | | [POSTPONED] Dr. Alan Archer-Boyd (University of Cambridge) "Hearing and head movement: auditory externalization, conversations, and hearing device signal processing." Venue: Compass House (Anglia Ruskin University), East Road. Time: 19:30-20:30 (Hosted by Dr. Bill Campbell) |
| 16/02/18 | | Dr. Milena Bonte (University of Masstricht) "Adaptive auditory cortical coding of speech." Venue: Kenneth Craik Room, Craik-Marshall Building, Downing Site. Time: 13:00-14:00 (Hosted by Prof. Zoe Kourtzi) |
| 16/02/18 | |
Prof Elia Formisano (University of Massticht)"From ears to brain (and back): Imaging the brain computations for sound analysis." Venue: Lecture Theatre, Psychology Building, ground floor. Time: 4:30 pm (Tea and cakes in the Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room (2nd floor) from 4 pm) (Hosted by Prof. Zoe Kourtzi) |
| 31/01/18 | |
[CANCELLED] Prof. Vinay (Norwegian Univeristy of Science and Technology) "Universal design for hearing and the reproducibility of conventional and extra-high frequency audiometry." Venue: Lecture Theatre, Psychology building, ground floor. Time: 2:15 pm |
| 26/01/18 | |
Dr. Antje Heinrich (Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness, University of Manchester) "Investigating the role of cognition for speech-in-noise listening." Venue: Lecture Theatre, Psychology Building, ground floor. Time: 4:30 pm (Tea and cakes in the Nick Mackintosh Seminar Room (2nd floor) from 4 pm) (Hosted by Mirjana Bozic) |
| 04/01/17 | |
Prof. Ruth Litovsky (University of Wisconsin) “Key factors contributing to spatial hearing and listening effort in cochlear implant users.” Venue: CBU Seminar Room. Time: 1.00-2.00 pm |
| 08/12/17 | |
Hearing Group Christmas Symposium. Venue: Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St. John’s College. Time: 12.00-5.30 pm [ Cambridge_Hearing_Group_xmas_2017_Final.pdf] |
| 22/11/17 | |
Dr. Lorna Halliday (UCL) "Auditory processing in children with sensorineural hearing loss: Links to language." Venue: Lecture Theatre, Psychology building, ground floor. Time: 2:15 pm
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| 17/11/17 | |
William Campbell (Anglia Ruskin University) "Alternative Dynamic Range Compression Configuration for Improved Listener Preference." Venue: Lecture Theatre, Psychology building, ground floor. Time: 2:15pm
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| 10/07/17 | |
Dr. Carlos Jurado (UCL Ear Insitute) "The patterns of low-frequency loudness perception: a new look." Venue: Lecture theatre, Psychology Building, Downing Site. Time: 2:15pm
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| 23/06/17 | |
Livia de Hoz (Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine) "Subcoritcal processing of background statistics." Venue: Lecture theatre, CBU. Time: 11am
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| 20/06/17 | |
Dr. Brett Swanson (Cochlear Ltd.) "Cochlear Implant Pitch Perception." Venue: Lecture theatre, CBU. Time: 2:15pm
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| 08/06/17 | |
Dr. Rhodri Cusack (Trinity College, Dublin)"Neuroimaging of the emergence of cognition in infants and its clinical applications."
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| 05/06/17 | | Laura Gwilliams (New York University) "In spoken word recognition, the future predicts the past." Venue: Lecture theatre, CBU. Time: 3pm |
| 18/05/17 | | Jackson Graves (University of Minnesota) "Perception of Multiple Simultaneous Complex Pitches: Effects of Harmonic Resolvability." Venue: Lecture theatre, Psychology Building, Downing Site. Time: 2:15pm |
| 08/02/17 | | Dr. Bob Carlyon (CBU) "Do PANIC! Hearing research at the CBSU." Venue: Lecture theatre, CBU. Time: 3:30pm |
| 06/02/17 | | Dr. Bob Carlyon (CBU) "Signal Detection Theory: What it is and why you need it (please bring a calculator)." Venue: Seminar Room, CBU. Time: 4pm |
| 15/12/16 | | Hearing Group Christmas Symposium. Time: 12.00-5.30 pm Location: Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St. John’s College [ Final_programme_2016.pdf] |
| 24/11/16 | | Prof. David Baguely (University of Nottingham) "Are we any closer to understanding and treating tinnitus?" Venue: Lecture theatre, CBU. Time: 3:30pm |
| 17/11/16 | | Prof. Ingrid Johnsrude (University of Western Ontario) "How attention and sound quality affect how well we understand and remember speech." Venue: Lecture theatre, CBU. Time: 3:30pm |
| 10/11/16 | |
Dr. Richard Turner (University of Cambridge) "Intelligent hearing tests using Gaussian Processes." Venue: Lecture theatre, CBU. Time: 3:30pm
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| 24/10/16 | |
Prof. Tobias Moser (University of Göttingen). "Sound encoding in the cochlea: from molecular physiology to optogenetic restoration." Venue: Hodgkin-Huxley seminar room, PDN. Time: 4:30pm
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| 27/09/16 | |
Prof. Toshio Irino (University of Wakayama) and Dr. Roy Patterson will present an informal hearing group talk on "Measuring auditory filter gain and shape." Venue: Brian Matthews Room, PDN. Time: 2pm |
| 23/09/16 | | Prof. Susan Shore (University of Michigan) "Desynchronizing a tinnitus circuit: from bench to bedside." Venue: Seminar room, CBU. Time: 2pm |
| 13/09/16 | | Prof. Michael Akeroyd (MRC IHR, University of Nottingham) "Do hearing aids help to localize sounds?". Venue: Seminar room, CBU. Time: 2.15pm. |
| 14/07/16 | | Dr. Issa Panahi (University of Dallas) "Smartphone Assisted Noise-Adaptive Speech Enhancement for Hearing Aids". Venue: Lecture Theatre, Psychology building, ground floor; Time: 2.15pm. |
| 07/07/16 | | Prof. Bill Yost (University of Arizona) "Sound Source Localization When Listeners Move."". Venue: CBU Seminar room, Cambridge; Time: 1.00pm. |
| 11/04/16 | | Prof. Chris Plack (University of Manchester) "Our (mostly futile) search for hidden hearing loss". Venue: CBU Lecture Theatre, Cambridge; Time: 2.15pm. |
| 20/03/16 | | Dr. Stefano Cosentino (CBU) "Dual-stage algorithm to identify channels with poor electrode-to-neuron interface in cochlear implant users". ICASSP 2016, Shanghai, China. |
| 08/02/16 | | Maria Chait (Ear Institute, UCL) "How the brain discovers patterns in sound sequences". Time: 14.15. Location: CBU Seminar Room, CB2 7EF. |
| 04/12/15 | | Dr. Stefan Launer (Phonak(R), Switzerland), "Hearing Instrument Technologies - What features are we not addressing yet". Time: 14:15. Location: Ground floor Seminar room, Craik-Marshall building. |
| 04/12/15 | | Event: Christmas Symposium. Time: 12.00-5.30 pm Location:Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St. John’s College [FINAL PROGRAMME] |
| 10/11/15 | | Dr. Stefano Cosentino (CBU, Cambridge), "Neural survival for cochlear implant users: what’s under the hood (but inside the cochlea)". Event: CBU Science Day. Location: CBU Lecture Theatre. Time: 15.20. |
| 26/10/15 | | Dr. Tobias Reichenbach (Imperial College London), "Biophysics of the inner ear and beyond". Location: The Hodgkin Huxley Seminar Room, Department of Physiology Development and Neuroscience. Time: 16.30-18.00. |
| 04/09/15 | | Dr. Bob Carlyon (CBU, Cambridge), Title:"Across-electrode variations in rate discrimination and gap detection in cochlear implant users". Location: BSA conference, Cardiff. Time: 10.00 |
| 01/09/15 | | Dr. Stefano Cosentino (CBU, Cambridge), Title:"Multistage nonlinear optimization to recover neural activation patterns from ECAPs". Location: CBL seminar room, no. 438, University of Cambridge. Time: 14.00 |
| 19/08/15 | | Joseph Schlittenlacher (Technische Universität Darmstadt), Title: "Measurement of loudness by simple reaction time". Location: ground floor of the main Psychology building, University of Cambridge. Time: 14:00 |
| 05/08/15 | | Dr. Jaime Serquera (Technische Universität Darmstadt), Title:"Music technology for tinnitus treatment within TINNET". Location: ground floor of the main Psychology building, University of Cambridge. Time: 14.15 |
| 11/06/15 | | Prof. Andrew Oxenham (Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota) Title: "New approaches to classic questions", CBSU Chaucer Club Series. Venue: MRC CBSU. Time: 15.30 |
| 12/05/15 | | Dr. Rachel Wayne (Queens University, Kingston, Ontario) will talk about “Working Memory Training and Speech-in-noise Understanding in Normal Hearing Older Adults”. Venue: MRC - CBU Seminar room. Time: 14.00 |
| 06/05/15 | | Dr. Stefano Cosentino (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) Title: "Critical factors that affect measures of spatial selectivity in cochlear implant users", WLTS. Venue: MRC CBU Lecture Theatre, Cambridge. Time: 12:30 |
| 21/04/15 | | Dr. Bob Carlyon (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit) Title: "Measuring spatial selectivity with symmetric and asymmetric waveforms", Symposium on "Improving Performance with Cochlear Implant". Venue: UCL Ear Institute, London. Time: 9:40 |
| 14/04/15 | | Bertrand Fontaine (University of Leuven, Belgium) "Spectral-context effects on auditory processing: Neural correlates and functions" CBSU seminar, Venue: CBSU seminar room. Time: 14.15 |
| 13/04/15 | | Jacques Grange (Cardiff) "Realising the benefits of the head-shadow effect for cochlear-implant listeners" Hearing Group seminar, Venue: Physiology Department. Time: 14.15 |
| 09/03/15 | | Charles Liberman (Harvard/MIT) "New perspectives on cochlear nerve degeneration in acquired sensorineural hearing loss" Adrian Neuroscience seminar, Venue: Physiology Department. Time: 16.30 |
| 31/01/15 | | Alex Billig (MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit, Cambridge) is giving a talk on: "Making Sense of Auditory Scenes" at the Robinson College Research Day. |
| 29/01/15 | | Prof. Alan Palmer (MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham), How the brain exploits binaural hearing: more than just two bites of the cherry. CBSU Chaucer Club Series, Venue: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Institute. Time: 15.30 - 16.30 |
| 12/12/14 | | Annual meeting for Hearing Research @ Cambridge. All welcome. Venue: St. John's College. Time: 12.30 - 17.30 |
| 13/11/14 | | Chaucer Club Seminar: Pascal Belin, Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, Aix-Marseilles Université. Venue: MRC CBSU. Time: 15.30 |
| 10/11/14 | | Hearing Group Seminar: Towards a cognitive science of musical improvisation. Andrew Goldman, University of Cambridge. Venue: Craik Laboratory (ground floor seminar room). Time: 14.15 |
| 04/11/14 | | CamBRAIN group talk: Making sense of auditory scenes. Alex Billig, MRC CBU. Venue: Baroosh. Time: 6.30pm |
| 30/10/14 | | Chaucer Club Seminar: Developmental aspects of understanding speech in noisy backgrounds. Prof. Stuart Rosen, UCL Speech, Hearing & Phonetic Sciences. Venue: MRC CBU. Time: 15.30 |
| 16/10/14 | | Chaucer Club Seminar: Exploring neural correlates of object formation in Auditory Cortex, Dr. Jennifer Bizley, Ear Institute, University College London. Venue: MRC CBU. Time: 15.30 |
| 09/10/14 | | Chaucer Club Seminar: Development, plasticity, and structure underlying auditory language comprehension and production. Fred Dick, Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London. Venue: MRC CBU. Time: 15.30 |
| 01/05/14 | | Chaucer Club Seminar: Motor cortex and perception - from speech to laughter. Sophie Scott, Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Venue: MRC CBU. Time: 15.30 |
| 08/09/14 | | Hearing Group Seminar: Processing of modulation and co-modulation; implications for the perception of environmental sounds. Dr. Bob Carlyon. Venue: MRC CBU. Time: 15.30 |
| 06/09/14 | | The effect of amplitude compression on the ability to hear out individual lines in music. Sara Madsen. Venue: Main Psychology Lecture Theatre. Time: 14.15 |
| 19/06/14 | | Hearing Group Seminar: Ongoing investigations of the Zwicker tone and the possibility of musical pitch in the absence of phase locking. Dr. Hedwig Gockel. Venue: MRC CBU. Time: 13.00 |
| 21/10/13 | | Local conference. Hearing research in Cambridge: the present and future |
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