Please join us Thursday, June 14, 2007 from 12-1pm
"Auditory Cortex at the Cocktail Party: Some Studies of Spatial Hearing"
Dr. John Middlebrooks, University of Michigan
Location: Herklotz Conference Room, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (3rd floor of building #506)
Sponsored by the Department of Otolaryngology- Head & Neck Surgery
Questions can be directed to Abby Copeland at acopelan@uci.edu; 949-824-9107
Abstract:
Spatial hearing permits us to identify the locations of sound sources and to isolate sounds of interest from the confusion of competing sounds. I will consider some evolving views of how the locations of sounds are written in patterns of cortical activity, will show that these patterns vary on a time scale of minutes depending on an animal's listening state, and will present some preliminary psychophysical and physiological results on spatial release from informational masking and spatial stream segregation.