Dear Auditory List: Last year the auditory world lost Eric Young, a magnificent human being and a leader in the auditory world. He was known for doing very careful neurophysiology studies on how the auditory system represents sounds. He grew up on a ranch in rural Nevada, made his way to Caltech, and then spent his entire professional life at Johns Hopkins, with occasional forays to Berkeley, which is how I got to know him. Earlier this year, at the ARO (Association for Research in Otolaryngology) Mid-Winter meeting, a number of his students and collaborators gave a wonderful set of presentations memorializing his work. The ARO has agreed to leave a recording of this session up “permanently”. I’ve been a fan of Eric and Eric’s work for many years (the plots of the cat neuron data in Sachs and Young are legendary), and I certainly knew much of his work. But it was especially wonderful to see all his work (and hear tales of late night recording sessions) to help me understand how it all fit together. The 2 hour video of the session is online at https://youtu.be/lYOSQt12yRQ The first YouTube comment lists the starting time for each of the speakers. I hope you enjoy this, and more importantly, I hope the younger members of our community learn from Eric, both how to do research and to make an impact. Thank you to Eric and all these presenters. I hope you enjoy these talks too. - Malcolm 0:02:27 - Xiaoqin Wang - Eric Young at Johns Hopkins
0:17:15 - Laurel H. Carney - Eric Young’s Contributions to Quantifying and Modeling Neural Representations of Sound
0:35:16 - Ian Bruce and Michael Heinz - Auditory Nerve Encoding With Acoustic Trauma
0:55:34 - Eli Nelken - Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus: Functional Anatomy and Circuitry for Auditory Processing
1:10:53 - Lina Reiss - Beyond the STRF: Random Spectrum Stimuli (RSS) Models
1:25:10 - Patrick Kanold - Multimodal Processing in the (Dorsal) Cochlear Nucleus
1:40:26 - Alan Palmer - Eric Young’s Impact Internationally and Within the ARO
2:10:46 - Tilak Ratnanather - Eric Young Memorial Fund |