Connectionists: Auditory Cognition Summerschool; 16-23rd July 2012, Plymouth, UK

[Thomas Wennekers]

           Auditory Cognition – Listening in the real world

               2nd Summer School on Auditory Cognition

                   16-23rd July 2012, Plymouth, UK

The 2nd EU-Cog sponsored Summer School on Auditory Cognition will be 
taking place between July 16th and July 23rd, 2012, in Plymouth, UK. The 
summer school is exclusively focused on the topic of "Auditory Cognition 
- Listening in the Real World" and will cover a wide range of subjects, 
from the basics of auditory perception to higher order cognitive 
processes, as well as practical applications and new approaches to 
understanding auditory cognition. 

The School will be suitable for late-stage Masters and PhD students with 
an interest in Auditory Cognition and will consist of a 6-day 
educational program (seminars and practical sessions) complemented by 
group work projects for the students and a wide range of social 
activities.

The Summer School will be a combination of both theory and practice, 
covering many levels of auditory processing. This will be a fairly 
challenging syllabus, introducing topics such as bottom-up processing of 
sounds to modern theories of awareness, music cognition, speech 
perception and new approaches in cochlear implants. The practical 
sessions in the afternoons will allow participants to gain hands-on 
experience of some of the techniques and applications discussed during 
the seminar sessions. Students will learn to make recordings both in the 
field and the lab, run some key experiments and be introduced to the 
body of methodological techniques associated with this field; student’s 
will also have the opportunity to produce and participate in a sonic-art 
performance in Plymouth University’s Immersive Vision Theatre.

This year, the teachers and topics to be addressed are:

• Rhodri Cusack: Neural correlates of conscious auditory perception
• Maria Chait: Discovering and representing patterns in sound sequences
• Henkjan Honing: Music cognition
• Annemarie Surlykke: Biosonar: Using sounds to probe the world
• Dick Botteldooren: Environmental acoustics
• Sophie Scott: Neurobiology of speech perception
• Bernhard Laback: New approaches in cochlear implants
• Matt Coombe and Neil Rose: Sound and Space

The deadline for applications is the 27/05/12; successful applicants 
will be notified by 10/06/12. 

For more information and to make an application, please visit: 
http://www.acsummerschool.org/index.php

For information related to the educational programme and eligibility for 
the school please contact Orsolya Szalárdy: szalardy at cogpsyphy.hu 

For other enquiries related to accommodation etc. then please contact 
Lucy Davies: lucy.davies4 at plymouth.ac.uk

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Relevant links with further information:
http://www.acsummerschool.org/index.php
http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=38653
http://www2.plymouth.ac.uk/science/elcetl/IVT.html