Connectionists: Kosice Neuroscience Workshop and PhD position in Slovakia+US

Tue May 2 15:07:09 EDT 2017

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          FINAL CALL

*The 3rd Workshop on*

    Cognitive neuroscience of auditory and cross-modal perception

          29 – 31 May 2017, Košice, Slovakia

http://pcl.upjs.sk/workshop2017 <http://pcl.upjs.sk/workshop2017>

      Objectives

  * This workshop will include advanced research talks (and introductory
    lectures) on a range of topics related to the */neural processes of
    auditory, visual and cross-modal perception/*.
  * The main focus of this year’s workshop will be on /*adaptation,
    learning and training* /in hearing, vision and other perceptual and
    cognitive brain functions.
  *   The talks will illustrate the */multidisciplinary character of
    cognitive neuroscience research/*, covering behavioral,
    neuroimaging, and modeling approaches, as well as applications of
    the research in auditory prosthetic devices.
  *   The workshop is aimed at */early-stage and advanced students and
    young researchers/*, and it will provide ample opportunities for
    direct interactions between the lecturers and the attendees.

The workshop will follow-up on previous two workshops organized in 2014 
and 2015 <http://pcl.upjs.sk/workshop>. (A CD with lectures and 
assignments from the previous two workshops will be available here 
<http://pcl.upjs.sk/workshopcd/>soon.)

Format:

1/2-day sessions, including invited talks, contributed talks, and 
posters, focusing on the topics of *Adaptation*,* Learning and 
training*, *Auditory and cross-modal perception (general)*, and *Vision 
and other topics in computational and cognitive neuroscience*. (Also, 
non-scientific program – outings to tourist destinations near Kosice – 
will be organized on the day before and day after the workshop.)

Invited talks and lectures:

  * *Lauren Calandruccio*, Case Western Reserve University
    <http://psychsciences.case.edu/faculty/lauren-calandruccio/>:
    “Informational masking for speech-on-speech recognition.”
  * *Lina Reiss*, Oregon Health & Science University
    <https://www.ohsu.edu/xd/health/services/ent/research/oregon-hearing-research-center/faculty-research/faculty-page-for-lina-reiss.cfm>:
    “(Mal?) Adaptation of pitch and binaural integration to abnormal
    auditory experience.”
  * *Inyong Choi*, University of Iowa
    <https://clas.uiowa.edu/comsci/people/inyong-choi>: “Neurofeedback
    training of complex listening.”
  * *Mathieu Lavandier*, École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l’État –
    Université de Lyon
    <http://www.entpe.fr/internet/contenu/departements/genie_civil_batiment/laboratoire_genie_civil_et_batiment_lgcb/p2e/equipe_p2e/mathieu_lavandier>:
    “A potential effect of vision on sound externalization and auditory
    distance perception?” (abstract
    <http://pcl.upjs.sk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Lavandier_2017_Workshop.pdf>)
  * *Micheal Dent*, University at Buffalo
    <http://psychology.buffalo.edu/about-us/faculty/dent/>: “The
    perception of auditory scenes by birds.” (abstract
    <http://pcl.upjs.sk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Dent_Workshop2017.pdf>)
  * *Ľubica Beňušková*, Comenius University, Bratislava
    <http://cogsci.fmph.uniba.sk/%7Ebenuskova/>: “Current concepts in
    modelling the long-term synaptic plasticity in the mammalian brain.”
  * *Anita Wagner,* University of Groningen
    <http://www.rug.nl/staff/a.e.wagner/research/publications.html>:
    “From hearing to understanding: automatic and effortful processes in
    speech perception.”
  * *Zbyněk Bureš*, Czech Academy of Science, Prague
    <https://www.vspj.cz/skola/kontakty/detail/zamestnanec/1355>:
    “Learning to hear – the effect of acoustic environment during
    ontogeny on audition and sound perception.” (abstract
    <http://pcl.upjs.sk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Workshop17_Bures.docx>)
  * *Petteri Hyvärinen*, University of Helsinki:
    <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Petteri_Hyvaerinen>“Online ILD
    training for tinnitus.”
  * *Virginia Best*, Boston University <http://cns.bu.edu/%7Eginbest/>:
    “Do listeners refine their spatial tuning over time in multitalker
    mixtures?”
  * *István Ulbert*, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    <http://www.ttk.mta.hu/en/telefonkonyv/ulbert-istvan/>: “Neural
    responses evoked by auditory stimulation during the
    sleep-wakefulness cycle in the cat.” (abstract
    <http://pcl.upjs.sk/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Domonkos_etal_Kosice2017_abs.docx>)
  * *Gábor Háden*, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
    <http://www.ttk.mta.hu/en/telefonkonyv/haden-gabor/>: “Beat
    perception and temporal processing in infants.”
  * *Erick Gallun*, National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory
    Research, Portland and OHSU
    <http://www.ncrar.research.va.gov/AboutUs/Staff/gallun.asp>:
    “Applying the state of the art in research and technology to train
    auditory processing with engaging computer games.” (abstract
    <http://pcl.upjs.sk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Gallun-Seitz-Abstract.pdf>)
  * *Bernhard Laback*, Austrian Academy of Sciences
    <https://www.kfs.oeaw.ac.at/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54&catid=13&Itemid=419&lang=en>:
    “Psychophysical and modeling approaches towards determining the
    cochlear phase based on interaural time differences.”
  * *Norbert Kopčo*, P. J. Šafárik University in Košice
    <http://pcl.ics.upjs.sk/?page_id=132>: “Adaptive Processes in
    Distance Perception.”
  * *Petr Marsalek*, Charles University of Prague and Max Planck
    Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
    <http://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/%7Emarsalek/>: “Perception across
    sound and space modalities at the level of neural responses.”
    (abstract
    <http://pcl.upjs.sk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Marsalek_2017Workshop.pdf>)
  * *Carlos Trenado *, Duesseldorf University Hospital
    <http://www.uniklinik-duesseldorf.de/index.php?id=101073>:
    “Sensorimotor improvement by stochastic resonance.”
  * ***Piotr Majdak*, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
    <https://www.kfs.oeaw.ac.at/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56:di-piotr-majdak&catid=13&Itemid=889&lang=en>:
    “The role of listener-specific factors in binaural sound reproduction.”

Venue:

Lecture hall 2.17T, Faculty of Science / Technicom building, P. J. 
Šafárik University, Jesenná 5, 04001 Košice Slovakia 
<https://goo.gl/maps/6m3GC3iJNeA2>.

Organizers:

Norbert Kopco, P. J. Safarik University in Košice <http://pcl.upjs.sk/noro/>
Erick Gallun, National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research, 
Portland and OHSU
<http://www.ncrar.research.va.gov/AboutUs/Staff/gallun.asp>Piotr Majdak, 
Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna 
<https://www.kfs.oeaw.ac.at/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56:di-piotr-majdak&catid=13&Itemid=889&lang=en>
Aaron Seitz, University of California, Riverside 
<http://faculty.ucr.edu/%7Easeitz/>

Travel, accommodation, visitor information:

see workshop webpage: https://pcl.upjs.sk/workshop2017/

Registration:

The workshop is open to all interested students/scientists. Registration 
is free of charge but required. To register, please send an email to 
kogneuro at gmail.com <mailto:kogneuro at gmail.com> stating your name and 
affiliation and the dates on which you are planning to attend. All 
accepted abstracts will be published on the workshop website and in the 
abstract book. No proceedings will be published. In case you would like 
to have a presentation please send us an abstract (up to 200 words; also 
indicate whether you prefer poster or oral presentation) no later than 
May 8 2017 (extended from May 1).

This workshop is supported by the EU H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 project 
#691229 <http://pcl.upjs.sk/grants/alt/>.

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PhD position in Slovakia and US

A PhD position is available in Norbert Kopco's Perception and Cognition 
Lab in the Institute of Computer Science at Safarik University in 
Kosice, Slovakia, for a Marie Curie EU-funded project on adaptation and 
learning in spatial hearing (http://pcl.upjs.sk/grants/alt/). This is an 
international collaborative project, combining psychophysical, 
neuroimaging and computational methods. As part of this project, the 
student would have the opportunity to work on development of modules for 
an auditory training game and spend up to 12 months in the US with one 
or more of the collaborators on this grant (Aaron Seitz's Brain Game 
Center at UC Riverside, Erick Gallun's lab at the Portland VA / OHSU, 
Virginia Best or Barbara Shinn-Cunningham at the Boston University 
Hearing Research Center, or Jyrki Ahveninen at the Martinos Center for 
Biomedical Imaging in Boston). Interested candidates please contact 
norbert.kopco at upjs.sk with a CV and a research statement. Information 
about PhD student application procedures is available at 
http://www.upjs.sk/en/faculty-of-science/foreign-students/ (deadline is 
June 1).

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