| Date & Time |
Research Presentation |
Paper Presentation |
| September 4th, 4pm |
Michael Cohen: Comparing auditory and visual long-term memory with a focus on his own auditory memory experiments |
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| September 11th, 4pm |
James Traer: Environmental impulse response measurements and data from some related behavioral experiments |
Kevin Woods: Recent Paper on auditory attention (Maddox, R.K., & Shinn-Cunningham, B.G. (2012) Influence of Task-Relevant and Task-Irrelevant Feature Continuity on Selective Auditory Attention. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 13: 119-129.) RESCHEDULED |
| September 27th, 2pm |
Josh McDermott: How to choose which scientific problem to work on |
Kevin Woods: Recent paper on auditory attention (Maddox, R.K., & Shinn-Cunningham, B.G. (2012) Influence of Task-Relevant and Task-Irrelevant Feature Continuity on Selective Auditory Attention. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 13: 119-129.) |
| October 4th, 2pm |
Josh McDermott: Results from cross-cultural music experiments in the Amazon rainforest |
Shaiyan Keshvari: Recent paper on ensemble coding in audition (Piazza, E.A., Sweeny, T.D., Wessel, D., Silver, M.A., & Whitney, D. (in press) Ensemble Coding in Audition.) |
| October 11th, 2pm |
Agnes Leger: Abnormal speech processing for hearing-impaired listeners in frequency regions where absolute thresholds are normal |
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| October 25th, 2pm |
Dan Yamins: Making neurally predictive models of IT cortex by optimizing neural networks for object recognition performance |
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| November 1st, 2pm |
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Sam Norman-Haignere: Feature extraction and applications to pitch tracking (Smaragdis, P. (2009) Relative-Pitch Tracking of Multiple Arbitrary Sounds.) & (Smaragdis, P., Raj, B., & Shashanka, M. (2008) Sparse and Shift-Invariant Feature Extraction From Non-Negative Data.) |
| November 15th, 2pm |
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Kevin Woods: Speech Separation Algorithms (Reyes-Gomez, M., Jojic, N., & Ellis D.P.W. (2004) Towards Single-Channel Unsupervised Source Separation of Speech Mixtures: The Layered Harmonics/Formants Separation Tracking Model.) & (Bach, F.R. & Jordan, M.I. (2005) Discriminative Training of Hidden Markov Models for Multiple Pitch Tracking.) |
| November 22nd, 2pm |
Josh McDermott: Results of various speech segregation experiments, including background textures and the roles of harmonicity |
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| November 25th, 6pm |
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Kevin Woods: Sam Roweis's PhD thesis on learning and inverting generative models of speech (Thesis) |
| December 13th, 2pm |
Charles Cadieu: Preliminary work on learning intermediate-level representations of speech |
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| December 16th, 12pm |
Vikash Mansinghka: Approximate Bayesian image interpretation via generative probabilistic graphics programming |
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