Subject: Announcement of two workshops in Taiwan From: Dan Ellis <dpwe(at)ICSI.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 22:45:13 PDTDear List - I was sent the following announcement of a workshop on auditory processing and modeling, plus one on hearing loss, to be held in Taiwan next year. The message was sent to me by Prof. Paul Poon of the National Cheng Kung University. DAn. ------- Forwarded Message From: ppoon(at)mail.ncku.edu.tw Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 08:26:48 +0800 (CST) John Brugge of UW-Madison and myself are currently organizing an auditory workshop to be held in Taiwan 1997 (together with a clinical hearing symposium back-to-back). If possible, we would would like to broadcast the announcement below to your AUDITORY(at)MCGILL.CA list [...] Paul Poon Professor Dept. of Physiology National Cheng Kung Univ Tainan Taiwan ppoon(at)mail.ncku.edu.tw -------------------------------------------- AN INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CENTRAL AUDITORY PROCESSING AND NEURAL MODELING Grand Hotel, Kaohsiung, TAIWAN Jan 26-29, 1997 AIM: To bring together scientists with research interests that bridge experimental and theoretical approaches to studies of central auditory processing. Both engineers and biologists are welcome. SPEAKERS and their talks: Moshe ABELES *- Israel: Temporal structure of cortical activity Richard ANDERSEN, USA: Combining of auditory and visual space in the posterior parietal cortex John BRUGGE - USA: Spatial receptive field properties of primary auditory cortical neurons Mike CALFORD - Australia: Inhibition and inhibitory plasticity in the mammalian auditory midbrain Max CYNADER - Canada: Neural mechanisms underlying auditory localization: some lessons learned from the visual system Kenji DOYA, Japan: How to use auditory information for articulatory learning: a computational model for birdsong control system Reinhard ECKHORN - Germany: Neural principles of visual cortical processing George GERSTEIN - USA: Organization and perturbation of neuronal assemblies Rick JENISON - USA: Spherical basis function approximation of spatial receptive fields in auditory cortex: a model linking physiology and psychophysics Tsutomu KAMADA* - Japan: Unit response properties in the auditory cortex of the Japanese monkey Gerald LANGNER* - Germany: Coding of pitch information in the auditory system Petr LANSKY* - Czech Republic: On recent results in modeling of sensory neurons John MIDDLEBROOKS - USA: Cortical codes for sound localization Israel NELKEN - Israel: Specialization of the auditory system for the analysis of natural sounds Paul POON - Taiwan: Coding FM and AM sounds at the auditory midbrain Richard REALE - USA: Spatial receptive field properties of primary auditory cortical neurons Terry SEJNOWSKI, USA: (to be announced later) Jim SIMMONS - USA: Dynamic mechanisms of perception exhibited by bat biosonar Nobuo SUGA - USA: Processing of species-specific complex sounds by combination-sensitive neurons Josef SYKA* - Czech Republic: Processing of vocalization signals in neurons of the inferior colliculus and medial geniculate body T.K. TRUONG - Taiwan: Medical image data compression J.F. WANG - Taiwan: Artificial neural network and speech recognition Tom YIN - USA: Behavioral and physiological studies of sound localization in the cat Eric YOUNG - USA: Models of a model system: the internal organization of the dorsal cochlear nucleus (*also Member, International Advisory Committee) Topics: Parallels in Processing between Auditory and other Neural Systems Processing of Complex Sound and Vocalizations Feature Extraction, Binding, and Motion Detection Functional Organization and Maps of the Brain Auditory Localization, Spatial Hearing Neural Network Models Artificial Neural Networks Temporal Coding Neural Synchrony and Oscillation Neural Assemblies Neural Plasticity Stochastic Neural Models Spike Train Analysis Physiology and Psychophysics of Hearing Sensori-motor Processing and Learning Perception and Behavior Speech Recognition Co-chairs, Organizing Committee: Paul Poon National Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan (ppoon(at)mail.ncku.edu.tw) John Brugge Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, USA (brugge(at)waisman.wisc.edu) Organizers: Department of Physiology, National Cheng Kung University, Medical College, National Science Council, Ministry of Education, and Department of Health, Taiwan, Republic of China. Venue and Climate: The Grand Hotel of Kaohsiung, Chinese-palace style, is located a scenic lake. Near Kaohsiung's International Airport (1-hr flight from Hong Kong). Weather is mild and dry: 15-25 deg C (60-80 deg F). INFORMATION: Dr. Mei-Ling Tsai, Workshop Secretariat, Dept. of Physiology, National Cheng Kung University-Medical School, 1 University Road, Tainan, Taiwan. Fax: (886) 6-236-2780. E-mail: audmodel (at) alpha8.dec.ncku.edu.tw. For updates please visit Web site: http://wwwphys.med.ncku.edu.tw/A_wshop.htm. REGISTRATION FEE (without accommodation): US$250 (after Nov 15, 1996 add US$100) ABSTRACTS (free communications in the form of poster presentation are now invited): Abstracts should be typed double-space on a single A4., must be sent with the Registration form by deadline of November 15, 1996 to the Workshop Secretariat and simultaneously e-mailed to: Audmodel(at)alpha8.dec.ncku.edu.tw ======================================================= AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON HEARING LOSS AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS January 26, 1997 Grand Hotel, Kaohsiung, TAIWAN Organizers:Taiwan Neurological Society, Otolaryngological Society of the Republic of China, Kao-Hsiung Medical School, Taiwan, and Department of Health, Republic of China. AIM: To bring our attention to various industrial factors related to hearing loss with special emphasis on the current concept of environmental protection against undesirable noise. Other factors that may lead to hearing impairment and general aspects of hearing loss will also be covered. In order to bring together clinicians and basic scientists who are interested in hearing science, this clinically-oriented Symposium will be followed immediately by a basic auditory workshop: Central Auditory Processing and Neural Modeling, held at the same venue (see above). You are kindly encouraged to enroll in both conferences. SPEAKERS and their talks: Leslie MICHAELS, MD FRCPath, University College, London, UK: Aging in the temporal bone; Presbyacusis Deepak PRASHER, PhD, Institute of Otology and Laryngology, University College, London, UK: Occupational hearing loss; Susceptible factors in occupational hearing loss --- a pan-European multi-nation study Sava SOUCEK, MD PhD, St. Mary Hospital, London, UK: Hearing in AIDS patients; Noise-induced hearing loss in musician Trong-N WU, PhD, Department of Health, Taiwan: Surveillance of noise- induced hearing loss in Taiwan: a report of Ta-Fu area Tsan-Ju CHEN, PhD, Kaohsiung Medical School, Taiwan: Influence of aircraft noise on hearing and brainstem auditory function Hwang-Ching LIN, MD Msc, Taipei Mackay Hospital, Taiwan: Otoacousti emission in the hearing impaired INFORMATION: Workshop Secretariat, Dr. M.L. Tsai, Department of Physiology, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Email: Audmodel(at)alpha8.dec.ncku.edu.tw Fax: 886 6 236 2780 Tel: 886 6 235 3535 ext 5436 Web site: http://wwwphys.med.ncku.edu.tw/E_factor.htm ABSTRACTS (free communications in the form of poster presentation are now invited): Abstracts should be typed double-space on a single A4., must be sent with the Registration form by deadline of November 15, 1996 to the Workshop Secretariat and simultaneously e-mailed to: Audmodel(at)alpha8.dec.ncku.edu.tw REGISTRATION FEE (without accommodation): a. $100 US, or b. free if registered with the accompanying Workshop: Central Auditory Processing and Neural Modeling (see above). Venue and Climate: The Grand Hotel of Kaohsiung, Chinese-palace style, is located a scenic lake. Near Kaohsiung's International Airport (1-hr flight from Hong Kong). 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