FINAL CALL!

 

The 4th Workshop on

"Cognitive neuroscience of auditory and cross-modal perception"

3 - 5 June 2019

Kosice, Slovakia

http://pcl.upjs.sk/workshop2019

 Objectives

·         This workshop will include 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 spatial perception and cognition.

·         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 targets early-stage and advanced students and young researchers. It will provide ample opportunities for direct interactions between the lecturers and the attendees.

The workshop will follow-up on our previous workshops organized in 2014, 2015 and 2017.

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), as well vision and other topics in computational and cognitive neuroscience. Non-scientific program (outings to tourist destinations near Kosice) will take place on the day before and day after the workshop.

Invited talks and talks by ALT consortium (for details click here):

• Jana Bašnáková, Slovak Academy Of Sciences – “ ‘It’s hard to give a good talk’ – the neural correlates of interpreting implicit meaning”
• Robert Baumgartner, Austrian Academy of Sciences – “Effects of spatial auditory cue realism on selective attention control and future perspectives on studying perceptual learning of these cues across the human lifespan”
• Virginia Best, Boston University, USA – “Investigating a visually guided hearing aid”
• Lauren Calandruccio, Case Western Reserve University, USA – “Masked-sentence recognition: the effect of target and masker speech similarity”
• Inyong Choi, The University of Iowa, USA – “Adapting to simultaneous electric and acoustic stimulation for word-in-noise recognition in listeners with single-sided deafness”
• John Culling, Cardiff University, UK – “Speech intelligibility in rooms”
• Erick Gallun, National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research, USA – ”Flipping the laboratory: Clinical research tools for bringing psychoacoustical testing to the patient”
• Andrej Kráľ, Hannover Medical School, Germany – “Effective Connectivity Between Primary and Secondary Cortical Areas is Shaped by Early Hearing”
• Norbert Kopčo, P.J. Šafárik University, Slovakia – “Adaptation to Reverberation in Speech and Distance Perception”
• Bernhard Laback, Austrian Academy of Sciences – “Re-weighting of binaural cues based on visual feedback”
• Piotr Majdak, Austrian Academy of Sciences – “Computational models for listener-specific predictions of spatial audio quality”
• Petr Maršálek, Charles University, Czech Republic – “Just noticeable differences in low frequencies below 500 Hz, loudness, localization; model and psychophysics”
• Catarina Mendonca, University of Azores, Portugal – “Changes in auditory space following audiovisual experience”
• Josefa Oberem, RWTH Aachen University, Germany – “Examining auditory selective attention in complex acoustic environments”
• John van Opstal, Radboud University, Netherlands – “Perceived Target Range Shapes Human Sound-Localisation Behaviour”
• Nelli Salminen, Aalto University, Finland – “Neural correlates of human spatial hearing measured with EEG and MEG”
• Dan Sanes, New York University, USA – “Learning and attention enhance cortex neuron sensitivity during auditory task performance”
• Aaron Seitz, University of California, USA – “Gamifying Perceptual Learning”
• Filip Smolík, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic – “Adaptation and learning in early language acquisition”
• Brigitta Tóth, Hungarian Academy of Sciences – “Top-down and bottom-up attention bias on change detection in auditory foreground and background”
• Beverly Wright, Northwestern University, USA – “Auditory perceptual learning”

Venue

Lecture hall 2.17T, Faculty of Science / Technicom building, P. J. Šafárik University, Jesenná 5, 04001 Košice Slovakia.

Organizers

Norbert Kopčo, P. J. Šafárik 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: http://pcl.upjs.sk/workshop2019/

 Registration

The workshop is open to all interested students/scientists. Registration is free of charge but required. To register, please send an email to kogneuro@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. 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 15, 2019.

 

This workshop is supported by the EU H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 project #691229.