Program

Day 1 (Friday May 27th, 2005): Physiological, Psychoacoustic, Perceptual, and Cognitive Research

8:00-8:30

Breakfast in Spiegel Hall

8:00-9:00

Registration (Rm 2150, CCIT Building)

9:00-9:15

Ulrich Krull

VP Research, UTM

Opening welcome

9:15-9:45

Eric Young

Physiology, Johns Hopkins, USA

The Neural Representation of Successive Segments in Speech in Normal and Acoustically-Traumatized Ears

9:45-10:15

Roy Patterson

Physiology, Cambridge, UK

The Temporal Form of Size Information in Speech, Music and Animal Sounds

10:15-10:45

Break

10:45-11:15

Terry Picton

Rotman Brain Research, Toronto

Timing and the Auditory Evoked Potentials

11:15-11:45

Willy Wong

Engineering, U of Toronto

Discussion of Physiological Models

11:45-1:00

Lunch

1:00-1:30

Kathy Pichora-Fuller

Psychology, UTM

Age-Related Differences in Temporal Coding of Gaps in Speech and Non-Speech Signals

1:30-2:00

John Grose

Otolaryngology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Detecting and Discriminating Gaps: Stimulus Factors and Listener Factors

2:00-2:30

Liang Li

Psychology, UTM

Auditory Memory of Fine Details in Humans

2:30-3:00

Bruce Schneider

Psychology, UTM

Discussion of Gap

3:00-3:30

Break

3:30-4:00

Bob Shannon

House Ear Institute & UCSD

Temporal Information in Speech: The Role of Envelope vs Fine Structure

4:00-4:30

Erin Hannon

Cornell University

Perceptual Learning of Musical Temporal Structure During Infancy and Adulthood

4:30-5:00

Ewen MacDonald

Engineering Doctoral Student

Simulation of Temporal Aspects of Auditory Aging

5:00-5:30

Ingrid Johnsrude

Psychology, Queen’s University

Discussion of Speech & Music

6:00-8:00

Dinner

Day 2 (Saturday May 28th, 2005): Real-world Listening & Translating Research into Practice and Technology

8:00-8:30

Breakfast in Spiegel Hall, South Building

9:00-9:30

Pierre Divenyi

VA Medical Center, Martinez CA

The Magic Duration of 100 ms in Auditory Segregation

9:30-10:00

Christian Giguère

Audiology, Ottawa

Working in Noise

11:30-12:00

Claude Alain

Rotman Brain Research, Toronto

Discussion of Real-World Listening: Neuroelectric Correlates of Age-Related Decline in Temporal Acuity

10:30-11:00

Break

11:00-11:30

Art Wingfield

Brandeis University, USA

Understanding Speeded, Noisy, and Complex Speech at the Word, Sentence and Discourse Levels:  Implications for Adult Aging and Hearing Loss

11:30-12:00

Antje Heinrich

Psychology Doctoral Student

The Effects of Temporal Distortion on Speech Perception and Memory Performance in Young and Old Listeners

12:00-12:30

Kathy Pichora-Fuller

Psychology, UTM

Discussion of Listening in Noise

12:30-1:30

Lunch

1:30-2:00

Astrid vanWieringen

Audiology, KU Leuven, Belgium

Temporal Processing in Cochlear Implants

2:00-2:30

Jeff Bondy

Engineering, McMaster University

Cochlear Nonlinearities and Temporal Neural Clues

2:30-3:00

Gurjit Singh

Psychology Doctoral Student

Discussion of Hearing Technologies

3:00-3:30

Break

3:30-4:00

Ian Bruce

Engineering, McMaster University

How Lab Researchers Can Interact With Industrial Partners

4:00-4:30

Steve Armstrong

Research Director, Gennum, Burlington, Ontario

How Industrial Researchers Can Interact with Academic Partners

4:30-5:00

Vijay Parsa

NCA, U of Western Ontario

Discussion of Technology Transfer

6:00-8:00

Dinner

Day 3 (Sunday May 29th, 2005): Community Lectures

9:00-9:30

Registration and Continental Breakfast (Rm 2150, CCIT Building)

9:00-9:30

Registration

9:30-10:30

Roy Patterson

Cambridge, England

What Limits the Notes That Composers Can Use to Make Tonal Melodies?

10:30-11:00

Break

11:00-12:00

Bruce Schneider

Psychology, UTM

Listening in Everyday Situations: From Hearing to Comprehension

12:00-1:00

Lunch

1:00-2:00

Bob Shannon

HEI and UCSD

The Ear is for Music - The Brain is for Speech

2:00-3:00

Jeff Bondy & Ian Bruce

Engineering, McMaster

From Neurons to Hearing Aids

3:00-3:30

Kathy Pichora-Fuller

Psychology, UTM

Final Discussion

3:30-4:00

Reception