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Dear All, We are delighted to confirm our next speaker in the Hearing Sciences Seminar Series is Professor Andrew King, Professor of Neurophysiology at the University
of Oxford. Professor King will be giving the following talk on Thursday 10th March at 2.00 pm (UK time): "The adaptable auditory system: from everyday listening to compensating
for hearing loss"
Abstract: A primary goal of
our senses is to provide an accurate and reliable representation of the world around us. Because our acoustic environments are constantly changing – for example, when we step out from a crowded, noisy bar onto a quiet street – it is essential that the brain is
able to analyse sounds in a flexible fashion. As a result of their remarkably adaptable properties, the responses of auditory neurons can be matched to the constantly changing statistics of the sounds that reach our ears. This helps to maintain neural sensitivity
over the most commonly encountered values and to generate representations of sound features in the brain that are tolerant to the presence of background noise. Neural adaptation to changes in sound inputs can also occur over longer time scales, and plays a
key role in enabling our auditory perceptual abilities to at least partially recover from the effects of hearing loss. In this talk, I shall consider the basis for these adaptive processes, which collectively highlight the highly dynamic way in which sounds
are processed in the brain. Bio: Andrew
King is a Wellcome Principal Research Fellow and Professor of Neurophysiology at the University of Oxford. He heads the Auditory Neuroscience Group and is the Director of the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience in the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and
Genetics. He is also the Director of the University of Oxford Doctoral Training Programme in Neuroscience and a Fellow of Merton College. Andrew studied physiology at King’s College London and obtained his PhD from the National Institute for Medical Research.
Apart from a spell as a visiting scientist at the Eye Research Institute in Boston, he has worked at the University of Oxford since then, where his research has been supported by fellowships from the Science and Engineering Research Council, the Lister Institute
of Preventive Medicine and the Wellcome Trust. Andrew was awarded the Wellcome Prize in Physiology and is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Physiological Society. He is a Senior Editor at eLife. Please use the following Teams link to join this seminar: Microsoft Teams meeting – Prof Andrew King Join on your computer or mobile app
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10.00 pm / 22:00 (CST/China Standard Time) Best wishes, Joe Dr Joseph Sollini Auditory Circuits Lab Hearing Sciences Mental Health and Clinical Neuroscience, School of Medicine The University of Nottingham W:
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