The 6th workshop on

Cognitive neuroscience of auditory and cross-modal perception

19 - 21 April 2027, Košice (pronounced KOH-shih-tse), Slovakia
https://pcl.upjs.sk/workshop-2027

Objectives:

• The workshop centers on how people perceive, attend to, and understand sounds—especially speech—in complex spatial, noisy, multimodal, and technologically mediated environments.
• It aims to connect basic auditory mechanisms with real-world listening applications, using innovative tools such as games, mobile measures, neuroimaging, modeling, virtual environments, and hearing technologies. 
• It 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 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 our previous workshops. 

Guest speakers and SAV consortium speakers (tentative)

Inyong Choi, University of Iowa, United States
Norbert Vanek, University of Auckland, New Zealand
G. Christopher Stecker, Boys Town National Research Hospital, United States
Eleni Vlahou, University of Thessaly, Greece
Mathieu Lavandier, ENTPE - University of Lyon France
Robert Baumgartner, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Piotr Majdak, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Anja Pahor, Univerza v Mariboru, Slovenia
Jyrki Ahveninen, Mass General Research Institute / Harvard Medical School, United States
Virginia Best; Boston University, United States
Aaron Seitz, Northeastern University, United States
Norbert Kopco, P. J. Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia

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 full 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 February 1, 2027. Also, see travel grant info below.

Student travel grants:

We offer a limited number of travel awards of 250 EUR to offset the cost of attending for students and young researcher. To apply, you need to be a presenting author. Please also introduce yourself and describe your motivation / reasons you need the travel grant.

Organizers:

Norbert Kopco, P. J. Šafárik University in Košice
Eleni Vlahou, University of Thessaly
Frederick Gallun, Oregon Health and Science University
Robert Baumgartner, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Piotr Majdak, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Mathieu Lavandier, ENTPE – University of Lyon
Aaron Seitz, Northeastern University
Perception and Cognition Lab

Acknowledgement:

The project has received funding from the HORIZON-MSCA-2022-SE-01 call (MSCA Staff Exchanges) of the research and innovation programme of Horizon Europe under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie actions grant agreement N° 101129903.

Sponsorship:

Organization of the workshop has been partially supported by the European Acoustics Association.