Co-chairs: Jennifer Bizley (University College London, Ear Institute, London, UK) and Yale Cohen (Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA)
- Kerry M.M Walker: “Auditory cortical correlates of pitch cues and pitch judgements” Auditory Neuroscience Group, University of Oxford, UK
- Mitchel L. Sutter: “Activity correlated to animals’ decision in primary auditory cortex” University of California, Center for Neuroscience, USA
- Yale E. Cohen: “Neural representations of categories and decisions in the auditory pathway” Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, USA
- Asif A. Ghazanfar: “Dynamic faces speed up vocal processing in the auditory cortex of behaving monkeys” Neuroscience Institute, Departments of Psychology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, USA
- Lizabeth M. Romanski: “Processing and Integration of Communication Stimuli in Primate Prefrontal Cortex” Dept Neurobiology & Anatomy, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
Dynamic Spatial Processing in the Auditory Cortex
Co-chairs: Fernando Nodal (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK) and Andrew King (University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)
- Daniel B. Polley: “Development and Plasticity of Binaural Stimulus Representations in the Developing Forebrain: Molecules, Circuits, Maps and Behavior“ Harvard Medical School, USA
- Andrej Kral: “Cortical Interaural Time and Intensity Difference Sensitivity in Congenital Deafness” Experimental Otology, ENT Clinics, Medical University Hannover, Germany
- John C. Middlebrooks: “High-Acuity Spatial Stream Segregation by Cortical Neurons” University of California at Irvine, USA
- Fernando R Nodal: “The role of the auditory cortex in the experience-dependent processing of spatial information.” University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Shedding light on auditory cortex
Co-chairs: Israel Nelken (ELSC and ICNC, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel) and Tony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA.)
- Israel Nelken: “Light in auditory cortex: opportunities and limitations” ELSC and ICNC, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
- Xiaowei Chen: “Two-photon calcium imaging of dendritic spines in auditory cortex in vivo” Institute of Neuroscience, Technical University Munich, Munich, Germany
- Adi Mizrahi: “Single neuron and local network plasticity – insights from motherhood” ELSC, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
- Patrick Kanold: “Micro-organization and plasticity of the primary auditory cortex” Dept. of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park MD, USA
- Simon Rumpel: “Two-photon imaging of neuronal activity in the mouse auditory cortex reveals spontaneous categorization of sounds” Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria
Chair: Xiaoqin Wang (Johns Hopkins University, New York, USA)
- Xiaoqin Wang: “The complexity of neural responses in auditory cortex and its functional implications” Johns Hopkins University, New York, USA
- Li Zhang: “Elementary synaptic circuits for laminar information processing in primary
auditory cortex” University of Southern California, USA
- Christoph Schreiner: “On the Role of Inhibition in Auditory Cortical Organization and Plasticity” University of California at San Francisco, USA
- Alexander Reyes: “Co-existence of lateral and cotuned inhibitory configurations in auditory cortex” New York University, USA
- Kechen Zhang: “Model-based optimal probing of auditory responses” Johns Hopkins University, New York, USA
Perceptual operations and underlying mechanisms in the primate auditory cortices
Chair: Charles E. Schroeder (Cognitive Neuroscience and Schizophrenia Program, Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA)
- Erich Schröger: “Automatic predictive processing in human audition“ Institute for Psychology, University of Leipzig, Germany
- Elana Zion-Golumbic: “Selective entrainment as a mechanism for auditory selective attention“ Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA
- Peter Lakatos: “The role of neuronal oscillations in attentional selection in primary auditory cortex“ Cognitive Neuroscience and Schizophrenia Program, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research, New York, USA
- Jonathan Fritz: “Task-related transformations in receptive fields and representations in primary and secondary auditory cortices and frontal cortex in the ferret“ Institute for Systems Research University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
