Title: Spatial hearing from biophysics to behaviour
Host: Professor David McAlpine
Date, time, location: Monday 8 October, 12:45pm to 5:15pm, Australian Hearing Hub, Level 1, Lecture Theatre
Tuesday 9 October, 9:30am to 5:00pm, 18 Wally’s Walk , MAZE Conference, Room A
This two-day workshop brings together research leaders in the field of binaural and spatial hearing—spanning expertise in human spatial listening, brain-imaging techniques for assessing binaural performance, animal physiology & neural modelling, and therapeutic interventions such as bilateral cochlear implantation—to discuss the state-of-the-art and the way forward if we are to understand how the brain generates a sense of auditory space, and how that spatial processing might be restored in individuals with hearing problems.
Please rsvp chi.lo@mq.edu.au by Thursday 4 October for catering purposes.
Agenda:
Monday 8 October (Australian Hearing Hub, Level 1, Lecture Theatre)
| 12:45 – 1:20 | Antje Ihlefeld | Human sound localization depends on sound intensity: implications for sensory coding |
| 1:20 – 1:55 | Jorg Bucholz | More realistic assessment of hearing ability and hearing device benefit |
| 1:55 – 2:30 | Mathias Dietz | Factors limiting spatial hearing performance with bilateral cochlear implants and first steps to reduce the shortcomings |
| 2:30 – 3:05 | Jaime Undurraga and Jessica Monaghan | Binaural coherence between temporal fine structure and envelope determines interaural time difference sensitivity |
| 3:05 – 3:30 | Afternoon tea | |
| 3:30 – 4:05 | Jörg-Hendrik Bach | Explaining hearing aid fine-tuning gain preferences with binaural loudness summation |
| 4:05 – 4:40 | Andy Brughera | Modelling Mechanisms for Sound Localization: ITD-Encoding in Amplitude Modulation & Delay within MSO Neurons |
| 4:40 – 5:15 | David McAlpine | Spatial Hearing from biophysics to behaviour |
Tuesday, 9 October (18 Wally’s Walk, MAZE Conference, Room A)
| 9:30 – 10:05 | Michael Pecka | Neuronal adaptations for spatial hearing in complex environments |
| 10:05 – 11:10 | Barbara Beiderbeck | New perspectives on inhibitory functions in auditory spatial processing |
| 11:10 – 11:30 | Morning tea | |
| 11:30 – 12:05 | Jörg Encke | A Formal Two-Channel Model Explains the Accuracy and Acuity of IPD Perception |
| 12:05 – 12:40 | Torsten Marquardt | On the detectability of interaural-parameter co-modulation across frequency bands |
| 12:40 – 1:20 | Lunch | |
| 1:20 – 2:55 | Nick Haywood | Amplitude modulated binaural beats: Lateralization cues from sound onset and from on-going modulation |
| 2:55 – 3:30 | Jason Mikiel-Hunter | Lateralization of reverberant speech with ITD cues: perspectives from a linear MSO model with adapting input |
| 3:30 – 3:50 | Afternoon tea | |
| 3:50 – 4:25 | Robert Luke | Interaural Correlation Modulates Cortical Oxyhaemoglobin Concentration |
| 4:25 – 5:00 | Hamish Innes-Brown | Hearing assessment using fNIRS: frontiers and challenges |