Seminar Dr. Rebecca E. Millman (University of Manchester, UK) - 22 February 2018

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Invitation Holy Hour ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences   Effects of sensorineural hearing loss on cortical temporal processing. Dr. Rebecca E. Millman (University of Manchester, UK) Research Seminar from external researcher When? Thursday, 22 February 2018, 11:00-12:00 Where? Seminar room HP 2 O&N 2 - KU Leuven Herestraat 49 B-3000 Leuven   Please reply to this email if you are planning to attend the presentation.     Copyright KU Leuven

Auditory EEG Signal Processing (AESoP) Symposium

Announcement

We are very happy to confirm the first edition of the Auditory EEG Signal Processing (AESoP) symposium, to be held from May 21 (noon) to May 23 (noon) in Leuven, Belgium. We aim to bridge the gap between the existing auditory neuroscience and engineering conferences.

Scope

The topic of the symposium is research on hearing, speech and language, making use of novel EEG or MEG signal processing. It is intended to be multidisciplinary between neuroscience, audiology and engineering, bringing people from these fields together.

Dates

• January 10: registration + abstract submission opens
• March 1st: abstract submission deadline
• May 1: registration deadline (or whenever the maximum number of participants is reached, whatever happens first)
• May 21 - 23: symposium

Program

• Monday, May 21st
• 12:00 h Lunch (included)
• 13:30 h Start of the symposium
• Tuesday, May 22nd
• 9:00 h Start of the symposium
• 12:00 h Lunch (included)
• 17:00 h Social activity (optional; to be defined, but likely brewery-related)
• 19:00 h Diner (optional)
• Wednesday, May 23th
• 9:00 h Start of the symposium
• 12:00 h Lunch (included)
• 14:00 h Closing of the symposium

(The exact times are still subject to change)

Steering Committee

Tom Francart
KU Leuven (BE) 

Jan Wouters
KU Leuven (BE)

Jonathan Simon
U. of Maryland (USA)

Ed Lalor
U. of Rochester (USA)

Alain de Cheveigné
CNRS (FR)

Andrew Dimitrijevic
Sunnybrook Research Institute (CA)

Invited Speakers

• Pamela Abshire (University of Maryland, USA)
• Alexander Bertrand (KU Leuven, Belgium),
• Malcolm Slaney (Google Research, California, USA)
• Jonathan Simon (University of Maryland, USA)
• Lucas Parra (CCNY, New York, USA),
• Dante Mantini (KU Leuven, Belgium),
• Ed Lalor (University of Rochester, NY, USA)
• Preben Kidmose (Aarhus University, Denmark)
• Molly Henry (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
• Mounya Elhilali (Johns Hopkins, MD, USA)
• Andrew Dimitrijevic (Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, Canada)
• Alain de Cheveigné (CNRS, France)
• Stefan Debener (University of Oldenburg, Germany),
• Michael X Cohen (Radboud University, Netherlands),
• Robert Oostenveld  (Radboud University, Netherlands)

Registration

You can register here.

Abstract Submission

You can submit your abstract here.

Location

The symposium will be held at Campus Arenberg in Heverlee (Thermotechnisch Instituut, Aula van de Tweete Hoofdwet).

Travel Information

Brussels airport is situated 25 km from Leuven.

The easiest and fastest way to reach the center of Leuven is by train. A direct train will bring you to Leuven in just 15 minutes and costs about 10 €. You can buy a ticket in the train station or online.

To reach the congress location from Leuven railway station, take bus 616 in the direction of Zaventem (about 10 minutes) or bus 2 in the direction of Heverlee (about 25 minutes), and get off at stop "Heverlee Kantineplein".

Alternatively, bus 616 can bring you directly from the airport to the congress location at campus Arenberg. Get off at stop "Heverlee Kantineplein".  This trip takes about 1 hour.

A bus ticket, valid for 60 minutes, costs 3 € and can be bought on the bus (or cheaper from a machine or shop).

If you come by car, it is easiest to park across the street, at the other side of the Celestijnenlaan, next to the building of ‘Departement Werktuigkunde’ (department of mechanical engineering).

If you stay in Leuven city, you can reach the congress location by bus (see above), or if the weather is nice, we recommend the 3 km scenic walk through the bequinage and park (3km, <40 min, see map below):

Accomodation

• City centre (100 - 150 €)
• Novotel Leuven Centrum
• Martin’s Klooster
• Ibis Leuven Centrum
• Pentahotel
• Ibis Budget Leuven Centrum (usually the cheapest option)
• Park Inn by Radison

• Next to the conference venue
• The Lodge Heverlee

• In between
• Begijnhof Hotel

You can also check AirBnB or any other usual booking sites.

Sponsors

We are grateful to our sponsors for helping us reduce the cost of the symposium

Contact information

Feel free to check the official symposium website or get in contact with us (ExpORL).

Looking forward to meeting you in Leuven in May!

Seminar Anna Samsel - 22 January 2018

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Invitation Holy Hour ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences   Phase-locked and non-phase-locked response components to auditory stimuli. Anna Samsel Research Seminar in framework of doctoral education When? Monday, 22 January 2018, 16:00-17:00 Where? HP 1 (Seminar room 04.226) O&N 2 - KU Leuven Herestraat 49 B-3000 Leuven Abstract Neural processing of the speech envelope modulations is important for speech understanding (Peelle, 2012). Sensitivity to amplitude modulation of the sound can be investigated with envelope following responses (EFRs). The temporal modulation transfer function (TMTF) is the neural response amplitude as a function of the frequency of the fluctuation,  and measuring ASSRs for many discrete modulation frequencies allows to trace maturation of the auditory pathway at different levels. Gransier et al. (2016) recently obtained TMTF in cochlear implant users by measuring ASSRs. This study revealed variability in ASSR amplitude for frequencies in  1- 20 Hz range and a decrease in responses for high modulation rates (80-100 Hz). We want to investigate these findings in more detail, in particular the decrease of amplitude in the high frequency range. Activity due to the presence of the stimulus can be of two types: evoked or induced. The evoked component of the response corresponds to the activity that is phase-locked (synchronized) to the stimulus. The induced activity is time-locked but not-phase-locked to the stimulus. We hypothesize that the decrease in amplitude for 80-100 Hz presented by Gransier et al. is due to a decrease of phase-locking in the response. This could entail the presence of induced responses. During this research seminar I will present results of our attempts to disentangle phase-locked and non-phase-locked components of response to auditory stimulus. Please reply to this email if you are planning to attend the presentation.     Copyright KU Leuven

Seminar Lorenz Fiedler - 9 February 2018

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Invitation Holy Hour ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences   Signatures of auditory attention and listening effort in the human Electroencephalogram. Lorenz Fiedler Research Seminar from external researcher When? Friday, 9 February 2018, 13:00-14:00 Where? Seminar room HP 7 (05.208) O&N 2 - KU Leuven Herestraat 49 B-3000 Leuven   Please reply to this email if you are planning to attend the presentation.     Copyright KU Leuven

Seminar 'It's all about time: Auditory processing, speech perception, and reading.' - 18 January 2018

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Invitation Holy Hour ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences   It's all about time: Auditory processing, speech perception, and reading. When? Thursday, 18 January 2018, 12h00-14h15 Where? Seminar room of ExpORL O&N 2, 7th floor, ExpORL KU Leuven Herestraat 49 B-3000 Leuven Programme 12h00: Dr. Marie Lallier How does the sensitivity to rhythm shape the reading brain? 12h30: Prof. Dr. Maaike Vandermosten Phonemic representations in children with dyslexia: an fMRI-study 12h45: Drs. Tilde Van Hirtum Speech envelope enhancement as a possible method to improve speech perception abilities in dyslexia 13h00: LUNCH Sandwiches will be provided. 13h30: Dr. Andrew Dimitrijevic Cortical correlates of listening effort and lip-reading in adult cochlear implant users 14h00: Drs. Robin Gransier The relation between neural modulation transmission and speech perception in noise via cochlear implants   Please send an e-mail to astrid.devos@kuleuven.be before Tuesday, 16 January 2018 (16h00), if you are planning to attend the presentation.     Copyright KU Leuven