The 2023 edition of the CogHear workshop will take place June 12-16th at the University of Maryland.

Register here. Registration closes Wednesday June 7, 2023

Purpose

The workshop is structured as a hands-on non-traditional research conference where the focus is more on open forums and live discussions rather than research talks. The meeting is held over 4 and ½ days where interdisciplinary teams including senior researchers and younger trainees and students work together to pilot new ideas, exchange approaches, and compare methodologies around themes relevant to auditory cognition.

The 2023 workshop is the second in-person edition of the CogHear workshops after a series of online discussions and reading groups held during the COVID pandemic, and a first in-person edition held in 2022. The workshop promotes interdisciplinary collaborations and communication across sensory and cognitive researchers focused on understanding brain function. The meeting provides a forum for knowledge gathering, idea sharing and research dissemination, as well as building bridges between basic science and engineering disciplines.

Scientific committee

Mounya Elhilali (Johns Hopkins)

Shihab Shamma (University of Maryland and École Normale Supérieure)

Malcolm Slaney (Google)

Jonathan Simon (University of Maryland)

Jonathan Fritz (NSF, pro se)

Monday:

• “Can attention decoding help those who need it the most?”

Barbara Shinn-Cunnigham, Carnegie Mellon University

• “Listening in on the listening brain: perspectives from the world of brain-computer interfacing”

Jeremy Hill, National Center for Adaptive Neurotechnologies 

• “Advancing Auditory EEG Decoding: The ICASSP Grand Challenge, the Imperative for Open Datasets”

Jonas Vanthornhout, KU Leuven

Tuesday:

• “Towards Neural Activity Driven Vocalization Prostheses”

Vikash Gilja, University of California San Diego 

• “Effects of Aging on Cortical Representations of Continuous Speech and Directional Connectivity during Difficult Listening”

Jonathan Simon, University of Maryland, College Park 

• “Music perception and musical cultures”

Claire Pelofi, New York University*Max Planck Institute

Wednesday:

• “Neuroplastic Impacts of Age and Sensory Inputs on Auditory Cortical Network Function”

Etienne De Villers-Sidani, McGill University

• “Auditory-Visual Integration for Speech and Non-Speech Presentations”

Ken Grant, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

• “When having two ears produces interference instead of a speech-perception advantage"

Joshua Bernstein, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center

Thursday:

• “Computational architecture of speech comprehension”

Laura Gwilliams, Stanford University 

• “Decoding speech perception from MEG”

Jean-Remi King, Meta/Ecole Normale Superieure

• “Timescales of Context in the Mind and Brain”

Chris Honey, Johns Hopkins University

Friday:

• “Network Localized Granger Causality & Shannon-Theoretic Limits on Auditory Attention Decoding”

Behtash Babadi, University of Maryland

• “CogHear Recap”

Malcolm Slaney, Google

With generous support from the National Institute of Deafness and Communication Disorders (R13DC018475)