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Day 1 (Thursday, 26 September)
9:00 – 9:45 Registration and hang up posters
9:45 – 10:00 Opening session: Cambridge Hearing Group
10:00 – 11:00 Talks 1: Hearing-assistive technologies I: Hearing aids (Chair: Antje Heinrich)
Brian C.J. Moore - A method for implementing both wide dynamic range compression and noise reduction, while reducing cross-modulation
Sreeram Kaithali Narayanan - Impact of hearing loss and hearing aid directionality on search behaviour in audio-visual multi-talker environments
Lukas Jürgensen - Detecting and compensating for rollover at moderate-to-high speech levels
Simone Graetzer - The third clarity enhancement challenge (CEC3)
11:00 – 12:00 Posters 1: Odd numbers (with coffee/tea/biscuits)
12:00 – 13:00 Talks 2: Cognitive aspects of hearing (Chair: Maria Chait)
Jacqueline von Seth - Perceptual abilities predict individual differences in audiovisual benefit for phonemes, words and sentences
Eleanor Ambridge - Neuronal mechanisms supporting the perceptual learning of degraded speech
Yasmeen Hamza - Auditory brainstem response as an auditory biomarker for cognition
Xena Liu - Microsaccadic dynamics as a window into selective auditory attention
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:00 Talks 3: Electrophysiology and neuroimaging (Chair: Tim Griffiths)
Katrin Krumbholz - Use it or lose it – evidence of hearing-loss related atrophy and microstructural degeneration in the human primary auditory cortex and associated afferent fiber tract
Buse Adam - Tracking statistical structure of rapidly unfolding sound sequences - Evidence from EEG in humans
Isma Zulfiqar - Layer-dependent fMRI and biophysical modeling reveal the distinct roles of cortical laminae in processing unpredictable and mispredicted sounds
Xiaoxuan Guo - Neural entrainment to pitch changes in auditory targets in noise
15:00 – 16:00 Posters 2: Odd numbers (with coffee/tea/biscuits)
16:00 – 17:15 Talks 4: Pitch talks and the Ted Evans Lecture (Chair: Brian Moore)
Harriet J. Smith - The differential role of pitch variability in recognition and intelligibility of trained voice
Veronica Tarka - Investigating how neurons invariantly encode pitch derived from two types of acoustic cues
Ted Evans Lecture:
Andrew J. Oxenham - Brain representations and perceptual development of pitch and timbre
17:15 – 18:15 Flexible break and ASM Business Meeting
18:15 – 19:00 Drinks Reception
19:00 – 21:00 Conference Dinner (College Dining Hall)
21:00 – 23:00 Open End (Pubs)
Day 2 (Friday, 27 September)
8:45 – 9:00 Opening session: UK Acoustics Network
9:00 – 10:00 Talks 5: Hearing-assistive technologies II: Cochlear implants (Chair: Etienne Gaudrain)
Deniz Baskent - Perception of voice cues and speech-on-speech by children with bilateral cochlear implants and children with single-sided deafness with an implant
François Guérit - Keeping channel interactions under control: towards psychophysically relevant current focussing with cochlear implants
Cynthia Lam - Can adult cochlear implant users make use of within-channel temporal interactions to improve frequency and chord discrimination abilities?
Lidea Shahidi - Evaluation of a cochlear-implant speech-coding strategy informed by temporal masking in realistic listening conditions
10:00 – 11:00 Posters 3: Even numbers (with coffee/tea/biscuits)
11:00 – 12:00 Talks 6: Speech in noise (Chair: Chris Sumner)
Ester Benzaquén - Auditory-cognitive determinants of real-world listening: A structural equation model of speech-in-noise perception
Lida C. Alampounti - Assessing how vision benefits speech-in-noise-perception and the impact of ageing and hearing loss on audio-visual benefits
Sarah Knight - Spatial versus spectral release from masking during speech-on-speech listening
Shang Wang - Comparison of indicators in the integrated digit-in-noise test for hearing and cognitive screening
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 – 14:00 Talks 7: Auditory processing (Chair: Alexis MacIntyre)
Chris Plack - Auditory effects of radio ear-pieces in the UK police
Sheila Flanagan - Amplitude and spectrotemporal rise-time sensitivity predicts phonological awareness and literacy in children
Alexina Whitley - Older adults with hearing loss show delayed responses and reduced predictive benefit during question answering
Yang Chu - Bootstrapping the auditory space map via an innate circuit
14:00 – 15:00 Posters 4: Even numbers (with coffee/tea/biscuits)
15:00 – 16:00 Talks 8: Hearing-assistive technologies III: Perception (Chair: Mark Fletcher)
Laura Rachman - Perception of speech-on-speech in children with hearing aids
Gloria Araiza-Illan - Socially assistive robot-based vocal emotion recognition assessment for cochlear implanted children
Hannah Meineke - Neural signatures of auditory perception and attention following unilateral cochlear implantation
Robert P. Carlyon - Exploring temporal mechanisms of pitch perception using the apical electrodes of a cochlear implant
16:00 – 16:15 Closing session