Hearing

Tue, May 21, 2013 - 4:31am

May

M	T	W	T	F	S	S
		1 12:00pm - 01:00pm Christian Langkammer - Insights into tissue composition and microstructure by postmortem MRI 02:00pm - 03:00pm Gabrielle Liverant - Relations among Smoking, Anhedonia, and Reward Learning in Unipolar Sepression 02:30pm - 03:30pm Dima Amso - The Utility of Visual Attention: Evidence from Typical and Atypical Development	2 05:00pm The role of fMRI in Cognitive Science: A discussion with Rebecca Saxe and Brian Scholl 06:00pm - 07:00pm Steven Hassan - Sacrificing Freedom of Mind: How We Fall Prey to Cults and Controllers	3 01:00pm - 02:00pm David Osher - Function Follows Form: How Connectivity Patterns Govern Neural Responses 04:00pm - 05:00pm Linda Van Aelst - The role of G proteins in neuronal development and plasticity	4	5
6 10:00am - 11:00am Retsina Meyer - Neurobiologically-motivated treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder in an animal model	7 12:00pm - 01:00pm Leon Bergen - The lexicon in learning and pragmatic inference 04:30pm - 06:00pm Rosemary Varley - Language and Thought: evidence from severe aphasia	8 08:30am - 05:30pm 2013 McGovern Institute Symposium: NEURAL CONTROL OF MOVEMENT 12:00pm - 01:00pm Chongzhao Ran - Optical Imaging of Amyloidosis of Alzheimer’s Disease and Brown Adipose Tissue	9	10	11	12
13 12:00pm - 01:00pm Joshua Buckholtz - The Causal Biology of Antisocial Behavior 12:00pm - 01:00pm Brian Kangas - Touchscreen Technology and the Preclinical Pharmacology of Complex Behavior 05:00pm - 06:30pm MIT Workshop: Transforming Science Coverage in the General Media	14 12:00pm - 01:00pm Laura Schulz's Infant and Childhood Cognition class 04:00pm - 05:00pm Joshua Sanes - Wiring up the retina 04:00pm - 05:00pm Suzanne Corkin - The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H.M.	15 06:00pm - 07:00pm Lawrence Fitzgerald - Opportunities and Challenges in Drug Discovery for Autism Spectrum Disorders	16 04:00pm - 05:00pm Paul Greengard - Understanding the Molecular Basis of Major Depressive Disorder: A Work in Progress	17 10:30am - 12:00pm Oded Ghitza - Speech perception, cortical theta oscillations and auditory channel capacity	18	19
20 01:00pm - 02:00pm Chia-huei Tseng-Perceptual grouping in visual search	21 02:00pm - 03:00pm Krista Ehinger - Visual Features for Scene Recognition and Reorientation	22	23	24	25	26
27	28	29 02:00pm - 03:00pm Amanda Tarullo - Developmental Consequences of Early Deprivation: Neural Function, Diurnal Cortisol Activity, and Social Behavior in Post-institutionalized Children	30	31

Time:

Fri, May 17, 2013 - 10:30am - 12:00pm

Place:

44 Cummington St, Boston, MA 02215, Room 203

Dr. Oded Ghitza
Research Professor, Hearing Research Center and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University

Abstract:

Time:

Fri, Apr 26, 2013 - 10:30am - 12:00pm

Place:

44 Cummington St, Boston, MA 02215, Room 203

Dr. Daniel H. Sanes, Center for Neural Science, New York University

http://www.bu.edu/dbin/hrc/calendar

Time:

Tue, Apr 16, 2013 - 10:30am - 11:30am

Place:

635 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215, Room 610

Ray Goldsworthy, Ph.D., Sensimetrics Corp. and House Research Institute

Abstract:

Time:

Thu, Apr 11, 2013 - 11:00am - 12:00pm

Place:

677 Beacon Street, Boston, MA 02215, Room B02

BU BME MS Thesis Defense

Committee Members:
Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering (Advisor, Chair)
H. Steven Colburn, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Gerald D. Kidd Jr., PhD, Professor of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences

Abstract:

Time:

Fri, Apr 12, 2013 - 10:30am - 12:00pm

Place:

44 Cummington St, Boston, MA 02215, Room 203

Xiaoqin Wang, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Auditory Neurophysiology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

Abstract:

Time:

Fri, Apr 5, 2013 - 10:30am - 12:00pm

Place:

44 Cummington St, Boston, MA 02215, Room 203

Jonas Braasch (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Abstract:

Time:

Tue, Feb 26, 2013 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm

Place:

220 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, Goldenson Building Room 122

Albert Edge (Harvard Medical School)

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/boston-neurotalks/message/7628

Time:

Fri, Mar 29, 2013 - 10:30am - 12:00pm

Place:

44 Cummington St, Boston, MA 02215, Room 203

John c Middlebrooks
Professor, Otolaryngology, School of Medicine, UC Irvine

http://www.bu.edu/dbin/hrc/calendar

Time:

Fri, Feb 22, 2013 - 10:30am - 12:00pm

Place:

44 Cummington St, Boston, MA 02215, Room 203

Dr. David McAlpine, Professor of Auditory Neuroscience, University College London

Abstract:

Time:

Fri, Jan 18, 2013 - 10:30am - 12:00pm

Place:

44 Cummington St, Boston, MA 02215, Room 203

Sarah Verhulst, Post-Doctoral Associate, Auditory Neuroscience Lab, Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology, Boston University

Abstract:

This talk focuses on how psychoacoustical, physiological and modeling approaches can be combined to provide insights into the different processing stages along the auditory pathway, both for normal and impaired hearing.

Boston-NeuroTalks Calendar 3.0

May

Keywords:

Oded Ghitza - Speech perception, cortical theta oscillations and auditory channel capacity

Daniel Sanes - Sensitive period for auditory perceptual experience

Ray Goldsworthy - Improving Speech Reception in Noise for Cochlear Implant Users

Miguel Cepeda - Effects of spatial separation on across-frequency grouping in narrowband speech

Xiaoqin Wang - What is missing in auditory cortex under cochlear implant stimulation?

Jonas Braasch - Application of top-down strategies in binaural models to analyze complex sound source scenarios

Albert Edge - Hair Cell Progenitors in the Postnatal Cochlea

John Middlebrooks - A cortical substrate for auditory scene analysis

David McAlpine - Cocktail Party Listening - With a Twist!

Sarah Verhulst - Cochlear contributions to the precedence effect & hearing impairment through model predictions of brainstem responses

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