To read as well
Centre de conférence Valpré
1 chemin de Chalin - 69130 Ecully
From Part-Dieu station, take the metro line B, to Gare d'Oullins, change at Saxe-Gambetta.
From Perrache station, take the metro line A, to L.Bonnevay, change at Bellecour
In both cases, take the metro line D, direction Gare de Vaise and stop at Gorge de Loup, then take bus n° 19 (direction Ecully-le Pérollier) and stop at Valpré
Poster size : maximum width 1 m by 2 meters in length (hence, portrait).
Any dimensions that fit in those limits are OK
Sessions and invited speakers:
1. Hearing the target
John Culling (Cardiff University, UK): “Energetic masking of speech in noise”
Enrique Lopez-Poveda (University of Salamanca, Spain): "Physiological Mechanisms for Hearing in Noise (without and with Cochlear Implants)"
2. Extracting the target: disentangling and attending to the target
Virginia Best (Boston University, USA): “Informational masking and speech intelligibility”
Aurélie Bidet-Caulet (ex-CeLyA, INS, Marseille): “How to escape auditory distraction: Selection and inhibition”
Elana Zion Golumbic (Bar Ilan University, Israel): “Studying attention in multi-speaker environments: between focused attention, divided attention and distraction”
Annie Moulin (CeLyA, CRNL, Lyon): “Understanding the target: contextual influences on speech intelligibility”
3. Impairments and prosthetic devices
Kathryn Arehart (University of Colorado, USA): “Effects of hearing loss, distortion and working memory on older listeners’ ability to understand speech”
Ingrid Johnsrude (University of Western Ontario, Canada): “General cognitive ability and individual differences in hearing aid outcomes”
Jim Kates (University of Colorado, USA) “Introduction on signal processing in hearing aids”
Sébastien Santurette (Oticon, Denmark): “Aided hearing in noise: advances and challenges for modern hearing aids”
4. Models
Jim Kates (University of Colorado, USA): “Using intelligibility and quality metrics to evaluate hearing aids”
Mathieu Lavandier (CeLyA, LTDS, ENTPE, Lyon): “Binaural speech intelligibility models”
5. New measures for hearing in noise (realistic tests and objective methods through the eyes and light)
Jorg Buchholz (Macquarie University, Australia): “Realistic speech in noise testing”
Thomas Koelewijn (University Medical Center Groningen, The Netherlands): “The impact of hearing impairment on the attention-related pupil dilation response”
Ingrid Johnsrude (University of Western Ontario, Canada): "Different types of speech material afford surprisingly different hearing behaviour"
Guillaume Andéol (Institut de recherche biomédicale des armées, Paris): “Using optical brain imaging to investigate speech perception in noise”