Norbert Kopco
FINAL CALL
The 3rd Workshop on
Cognitive neuroscience of auditory and cross-modal perception
29 – 31 May 2017, Košice, Slovakia
http://pcl.upjs.sk/workshop2017
Objectives
- This workshop will include advanced research talks (and introductory lectures) on a range of topics related to the neural processes of auditory, visual and cross-modal perception.
- The main focus of this year’s workshop will be on adaptation, learning and training in hearing, vision and other perceptual and cognitive brain functions.
- The talks will illustrate the multidisciplinary character of cognitive neuroscience research, covering behavioral, neuroimaging, and modeling approaches, as well as applications of the research in auditory prosthetic devices.
- The workshop is aimed at early-stage and advanced students and young researchers, and it will provide ample opportunities for direct interactions between the lecturers and the attendees.
The workshop will follow-up on previous two workshops organized in 2014 and 2015. (A CD with lectures and assignments from the previous two workshops will be available here soon.)
Format:
1/2-day sessions, including invited talks, contributed talks, and posters, focusing on the topics of Adaptation, Learning and training, Auditory and cross-modal perception (general), and Vision and other topics in computational and cognitive neuroscience. (Also, non-scientific program – outings to tourist destinations near Kosice – will be organized on the day before and day after the workshop.)
Invited talks and lectures:
- Lauren Calandruccio, Case Western Reserve University: “Informational masking for speech-on-speech recognition.”
- Lina Reiss, Oregon Health & Science University: “(Mal?) Adaptation of pitch and binaural integration to abnormal auditory experience.”
- Inyong Choi, University of Iowa: “Neurofeedback training of complex listening.”
- Mathieu Lavandier, École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l’État – Université de Lyon: “A potential effect of vision on sound externalization and auditory distance perception?” (abstract)
- Micheal Dent, University at Buffalo: “The perception of auditory scenes by birds.” (abstract)
- Ľubica Beňušková, Comenius University, Bratislava: “Current concepts in modelling the long-term synaptic plasticity in the mammalian brain.”
- Anita Wagner, University of Groningen: “From hearing to understanding: automatic and effortful processes in speech perception.”
- Zbyněk Bureš, Czech Academy of Science, Prague: “Learning to hear – the effect of acoustic environment during ontogeny on audition and sound perception.” (abstract)
- Petteri Hyvärinen, University of Helsinki: “Online ILD training for tinnitus.”
- Virginia Best, Boston University: “Do listeners refine their spatial tuning over time in multitalker mixtures?”
- István Ulbert, Hungarian Academy of Sciences: “Neural responses evoked by auditory stimulation during the sleep-wakefulness cycle in the cat.” (abstract)
- Gábor Háden, Hungarian Academy of Sciences: “Beat perception and temporal processing in infants.”
- Erick Gallun, National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research, Portland and OHSU: “Applying the state of the art in research and technology to train auditory processing with engaging computer games.” (abstract)
- Bernhard Laback, Austrian Academy of Sciences: “Psychophysical and modeling approaches towards determining the cochlear phase based on interaural time differences.”
- Norbert Kopčo, P. J. Šafárik University in Košice: “Adaptive Processes in Distance Perception.”
- Petr Marsalek, Charles University of Prague and Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems: “Perception across sound and space modalities at the level of neural responses.” (abstract)
- Carlos Trenado , Duesseldorf University Hospital: “Sensorimotor improvement by stochastic resonance.”
- Piotr Majdak, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna: “The role of listener-specific factors in binaural sound reproduction.”
Lecture hall 2.17T, Faculty of Science / Technicom building, P. J. Šafárik University, Jesenná 5, 04001 Košice Slovakia.
Organizers:
Norbert Kopco, P. J. Safarik
University in Košice
Erick
Gallun, National Center for Rehabilitative
Auditory Research, Portland and OHSU
Piotr
Majdak, Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna
Aaron Seitz, University of
California, Riverside
Travel, accommodation, visitor information:
see workshop
webpage: https://pcl.upjs.sk/workshop2017/
Registration:
The workshop is open to all interested students/scientists. Registration is free of charge but required. To register, please send an email to kogn...@gmail.com stating your name and affiliation and the dates on which you are planning to attend. All accepted abstracts will be published on the workshop website and in the abstract book. No proceedings will be published. In case you would like to have a presentation please send us an abstract (up to 200 words; also indicate whether you prefer poster or oral presentation) no later than May 8 2017 (extended from May 1).
This workshop is supported by the EU H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 project #691229.
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A PhD position is available in Norbert Kopco's Perception and Cognition Lab in the Institute of Computer Science at Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia, for a Marie Curie EU-funded project on adaptation and learning in spatial hearing (http://pcl.upjs.sk/grants/alt/). This is an international collaborative project, combining psychophysical, neuroimaging and computational methods. As part of this project, the student would have the opportunity to work on development of modules for an auditory training game and spend up to 12 months in the US with one or more of the collaborators on this grant (Aaron Seitz's Brain Game Center at UC Riverside, Erick Gallun's lab at the Portland VA / OHSU, Virginia Best or Barbara Shinn-Cunningham at the Boston University Hearing Research Center, or Jyrki Ahveninen at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging in Boston). Interested candidates please contact norber...@upjs.sk with a CV and a research statement. Information about PhD student application procedures is available at http://www.upjs.sk/en/faculty-of-science/foreign-students/ (deadline is June 1).