The Second Workshop and Lecture Series on “Cognitive neuroscience of auditory and cross-modal perception” took place in Košice, Slovakia on 20 – 24 April 2015

I was happy to participate in The Workshop dedicated to neural processes of auditory, visual and cross-modal perception. The talks were related to cognitive neuroscience research, covering behavioral, neuroimaging, and modeling approaches, as well as applications of the research in auditory prosthetic devices (cochlear implants, hearing aids).

Topics and presenters (detailed abstracts please find here):

Monday, 20 April 2015

Learning From Nature’s Experiments: What Clinical Research Can Mean for Sensory Scientists, Frederick (Erick) Gallun, US Dept. of Veterans Affairs and Oregon Health & Science University

Pursuit eye movements and perceived object velocity, potential clinical applications

Arash Yazdanbakhsh, Boston University

Active listening: Speech intelligibility in cocktail party listening.

Simon Carlile, Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, School of Medical Science and Bosch Institute, University of Sydney, Australia 2006

Perceptual Learning; specificity, transfer and how learning is a distributed process

Aaron Seitz, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, USA

Spatial hearing: Effect of hearing loss and hearing aids

Virginia Best, Boston University

Toward an evolutionary theory of speech: how and why did it develop the way it did

Pierre Divenyi, Center for Computer Research for Music and Acoustics, Stanford University,  U.S.A.

On the single neuron computation 

Petr Marsalek, Charles University in Prague

How spectral information triggers sound localization in sagittal planes

Robert Baumgartner, Piotr Majdak, and Bernhard Laback, Acoustics Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Cognitively Inspired Speech Processing For Multimodal Hearing Technology

Dr Andrew Abel, Prof. Amir Hussain, Computing Science and Mathematics, University of Stirling, Scotland

Auditory Distance Perception and DRR-ILD Cues Weighting

Jana Eštočinová, Jyrki Ahveninen, Samantha Huang, Stephanie Rossi, and Norbert Kopčo, Institute of Computer Science, P. J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia; Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital; Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology, Boston University

Tuesday, 21 April 2015

RESTART theory: discrete sampling of binaural information during envelope fluctuations is a fundamental constraint on binaural processing.

G. Christopher Stecker, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville TN USA

Sound Localization Cues and Perceptual Grouping in Electric Hearing

Bernhard Laback, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Brain Training; How to train cognition to yield transfer to real world contexts

Aaron Seitz, Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, USA

Coincidence detection in the MSO - computational approaches

Petr Marsalek, Charles University in Prague

Auditory Processing After mild Traumatic Brain Injury: New Findings and Next Steps

Frederick (Erick) Gallun, US Dept. of Veterans Affairs and Oregon Health & Science University

Hearing motion in motion

Carlile, S, Leung J, Locke, S, and Burgess, M., Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, School of Medical Science and Bosch Institute, University of Sydney, Australia 2006

Auditory processing capabilities supporting communication in preverbal infants

István Winkler, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Chirp stimuli for entrainment: chirp up, chirp down and task effects

Aleksandras Voicikas, Ieva Niciute, Osvaldas Ruksenas, Inga Griskova-Bulanova, Vilnius University, Department of Neurobiology and Biophysics.

Cross-modal interaction in spatial attention

Marián Špajdel, Zdenko Kohút, Barbora Cimrová, Stanislav Budáč, Igor Riečanský

Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience, Institute of Normal and Pathological Physiology,

Slovak Academy of Sciences; Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, University of Trnava, Slovakia; Centre for Cognitive Science, Department of Applied Informatics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia; SCAN Unit, Institute of Clinical, Biological and Differential Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Austria

Prediction processes in the visual modality – an EEG study

Gábor Csifcsák, Viktória Balla, Szilvia Szalóki, Tünde Kilencz, Vera Dalos

Early electophysiological correlates of susceptibility to the double-flash illusion

Simon Júlia, Csifcsák Gábor, Institute of Psychology University of Szeged

Suggestion of rehabilitative treatment for patients subjected to sight restorative surgery. Olena Markaryan, Independent researcher

Learning of auditory distance with intensity and reverberation cues

Hladek Lubos1, Seitz Aaron, Kopco Norbert, Institute of Computer Science, P. J. Safarik University in Kosice, Slovakia, Department of Psychology, University of California Riverside, USA

Streaming and sound localization with a preceding distractor

Gabriela Andrejková1, Virginia Best3, Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham3, and Norbert Kopčo

Institute of Computer Science, P. J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia; Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School/ Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown MA; Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology, Boston University, Boston MA

Exposure to Consistent Room Reverberation Facilitates Consonant Perception

Norbert Kopčo, Eleni Vlahou, Kanako Ueno3 & Barbara Shinn-Cunningham

Institute of Computer Science, P. J. Šafárik University; Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside; School of Science and Technology, Meiji University Center for Computational Neuroscience and Neural Technology, Boston University

Contextual plasticity in sound localization: characterization of spatial properties and neural locus, Beáta Tomoriová, Ľuboš Marcinek, Ľuboš Hládek, Norbert Kopčo

Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia; Technical University of Košice, Slovakia.

Visual Adaptation And Spatial Auditory Processing

Peter Lokša, Norbert Kopčo, Institute of Computer Science, P. J. Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia

Speech Localization in a Multitalker Reverberant Environment

Peter Toth, Norbert Kopco, Charles University in Prague

Wednesday, 22 April 2015

Visuospatial memory and where eyes look when the percept changes

Arash Yazdanbakhsh, Boston University

Modeling Auditory Scene Analysis by multidimensional statistical filtering

Volker Hohmann, Medical Physics, University of Oldenburg, Germany

Modeling auditory stream segregation by predictive processes

István Winkler, Research Centre for Natural Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

What is the cost of simultaneously listening to the "what" and the "when" in speech?

Pierre Divenyi, Center for Computer Research for Music and Acoustics, Stanford University,  U.S.A.

Neuroimaging of task-dependent spatial processing in human auditory cortex.

G. Christopher Stecker, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville TN USA

Temporal Effects in the Perception of Interaural Level Differences: Data and Model Predictions, Bernhard Laback, Austrian Academy of Sciences

Modeling Cocktail Party Processing in a Multitalker Mixture using Harmonicity and Binaural Features, Volker Hohmann, Medical Physics, University of Oldenburg, Germany

Audibility and spatial release from masking. Virginia Best, Frederick Gallun, Norbert Kopčo