International Symposium on
Auditory and Audiological Research
ISAAR
2007
29-31 August 2007
Marienlyst, Helsingør, Denmark
Title: “Auditory signal processing
in hearing-impaired listeners”
Wednesday 29 August
08:00-10:00 Registration and preparing poster displays
10:00-10:10 Welcome
Session I: Modeling auditory and speech
processing
10:10-10:45 Alain de Chéveigné (Ecole normale superieure, Paris, FR)
Will cochlear implantees ever hear musical pitch?
10:45-11:20 Ian C. Bruce (McMaster University, Ontario, CAN)
Modeling the effects of cochlear impairment on the neural representation of
speech in the auditory nerve and primary auditory cortex
11:20-11: 55 Volker Hohmann (University of Oldenburg, D)
Modeling auditory scene analysis by multidimensional statistical filtering
may stimulate advances in hearing-aid signal processing
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-13:35 Torsten Dau, Technical University of Denmark,
DK
Spectral and temporal processing in normal-hearing and
hearing-impaired listeners
13:35-14:10 Martin Cooke (University of Sheffield, UK)
Active hearing, active speaking
14:10-14:30 Ken W. Grant (Army Audiology and Speech Center, Washington, USA)
Modeling auditory-visual speech intelligibility
Session II: Physiological correlates of hearing impairment
and speech processing
14:30-15:05 Mark E. Lutman (University of Southampton, UK)
Otoacoustic emissions as an indicator of hearing loss
15:05-15:20 Coffee break
15:20-15:55 Robert Patuzzi (University of Western Australia, AUS)
Gain, nonlinearity and regulation of the mammalian cochlea
15:55-16:30 Manuel Don (House Ear Institute, Los Angeles, USA)
Hearing loss can muddy the waters of otologic disease detection
16:30-17:05 Shihab A. Shamma (Univerity of Maryland, USA)
Phoneme representation and classification in primary
auditory cortex
17:05-17:25 Claus Elberling (Oticon, DK)
Simultaneous multiple stimulation of the ASSR
17:25-19:00 Poster session I (List)
19:00 Dinner
20:00-21:00 Poster session I, continued and refreshments
Thursday 30 August
Session III: Perceptual correlates of hearing impairment and
auditory processing disorders
08:45-09:20 Brian C. J. Moore (University of Cambridge, UK)
The role of temporal fine structure in normal and impaired hearing
09:20-09:55 Christian Lorenzi (Ecole normale superieure (ENS), Paris, F)
Role of temporal envelope and fine structure cues in speech
identification
09:55-10:30 Andrew J. Oxenham (University of Minnesota, USA)
Pitch perception in normal, impaired and electric hearing
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-11:20 David R. Moore (University of Nottingham, UK)
Auditory processing disorder (APD) in children
11:20-11:40 Kathy Pichora-Fuller (University of Toronto, CAN)
Auditory temporal processing deficits in older listeners:
A review and overview
11:40-12:00 Nicole L. Marrone (Boston University, USA)
Listening in a multisource environment with and without
hearing aids
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Session IV: Speech perception and attention in adverse
conditions
13:00-13:35 Wouter Dreschler (University of Amsterdam, NL)
Diagnosis of impaired speech perception by means of
the “Auditory Profile ”
13:35-14:10 Birger Kollmeier (University of Oldenburg, D)
Speech reception in noise: How much do we understand?
14:10-14:45 Barbara Shinn Cunningham (Boston University, USA)
Why hearing impairment may degrade selective attention
14:45-15:00 Coffee break
15:00-15:35 Steve Greenberg (International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, USA)
Linguistic scene analysis – synergy is Key
15:35-15:55 Joshua G. W. Bernstein (Army Audiology and Speech Center, Washington, USA)
Frequency dependence of the visual benefit to speech intelligibility in
complex noise
15:55-16:15 Virginia Best (Boston University, USA)
Hearing-impaired listeners benefit from spatial and temporal cues
in a complex auditory scene
16:15-18:30 Poster Session II (List)
19:00 Dinner / Banquet
Friday 31 August
Session V: Recent concepts in cochlear-implant and hearing-aid
processing
08:30-09:05 Harvey Dillon (National Acoustics Laboratories, Sydney, AUS)
Active occlusion reduction: an electronic vent
09:05-09:40 Fan-Gang Zeng (University of California Irvine, USA)
Combining acoustic and electric stimulation to attack the cocktail party
problem
09:40-10:15 Brent W. Edwards (Starkey Hearing Research Center, USA)
The interaction of cognitive function with hearing aid signal
processing
10:15-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-10:50 Matthias Milczynski (K. U. Leuven, B)
Improving pitch perception with cochlear implants for
speech and music
10:50-11:10 Stefan Launer and Ralf-Peter Derleth (Phonak, CH)
Towards an objective measure for spatial integrity
11:10-11:30 Andrew Dittberner (GN Resound Research Group, USA)
Binaural auditory steering strategy for microphone transducers
in hearing intstruments
11:30-11:50 Sepp Chalupper (Siemens Audiology Engeneering Group, D)
Effectiveness and efficiency of auditory training
11:50-12:10 Ole Hau (Widex, DK)
Frequency transposition and the effect of training
12:10-12:20 Closing remarks
12:20-13:20 Lunch
Updated
10 August 2007
by Torben Poulsen
List of Posters:
Variables affecting the Real-Ear-to-Coupler-Difference
Brian Bech
Insights into optimal phonemic compression from a computational model of the auditory periphery
Ian C.Bruce, Timothy J. Zeyl and Faheem Dinth
Effects of Amplitude Ramps on Phonemic Restoration with Compressed Speech
Deniz Başkent, Cheryl Eiler, Brent Edwards
Monaural and binaural subjective modulation transfer functions in simple reverberation
Eric R. Thompson and Torsten Dau
The effects of compression ratio and release-time on loud speech and noise signals, processed by a simulated non-linear hearing aid
Erik Schmidt
Individual cochlear delays estimated with otoacoustic emissions and auditory brainstem measurements
Gilles Pigasse, James Harte and Torsten Dau
Towards Automatic Speech Recognition based on Cochlear Traveling Wave Delay Trajectories
Tamás Harczos, Gero Szepannek, and Frank Klefenz
Single-channel noise suppression based on a statistical source-model for speech
Niklas Harlander and Volker Hohmann
Influence of the task of the listener on preference for gain at soft input levels
Helen Connor and Torben Poulsen
Effect of talker variability on speech perception by elderly people in reverberation
Nao Hodoshima and Takayuki Arai,
Interactive fitting of hearing aids
R. Houben and W.A. Dreschler,
Speech intelligibility for normal hearing and hearing-impaired listeners in simulated room acoustic conditions
I. Arweiler, T. Poulsen, T. Dau
Auditory brainstem responses elicited by embedded narrowband chirps
James Harte,
A new sentence-based test in Danish for estimating speech reception in noise
Jens Bo Nielsen and Torsten Dau
Simultaneous reflection masking: dependency on direct sound level and hearing-impairment
Jörg M. Buchholz
Impact Sound Perception by Hearing Aid Wearers
Brent C. Kirkwood
Directional power ITE hearing aids for moderately severe hearing losses
Kirsten Dehn,
The temporal dynamics of pitch perception and what they reveal about processing mechanisms
Katrin Krumbholz and Nicholas Robert Clark
Variations in “Adequate” Own-voice Level Used by Speakers and Preferred by Listeners when Communicating Across a Distance
Søren Laugesen, Niels Søgaard Jensen, Patrick Maas & Claus Nielsen
Prediction of individual noise susceptibility from inner ear measurements
Ann-Cathrine Lindblad and Åke Olofsson
Aided listening performance in complex conditions correlates with performance on cognitive tests rather than with simple tests of audibility
Thomas Lunner & Elisabet Sundewall-Thorén, Oticon Eriksholm
Time Constants Of Compression Schemes: Less Is More?
Matthias Latzel*, Kirsten Wagener**, Volker Hohmann**
Interpreting Word-Recognition Data using Lexical and Phonemic Features of the Materials
Rachel McArdle and Richard H. Wilson
Modeling spectro-temporal masking in hearing-impaired listeners
Morten L. Jepsen and Torsten Dau
An investigation of effective SNR-change through amplitude-compression hearing aids
Graham Naylor, René Burmand Johannesson, Filip Munch Rønne
Spatial Unmasking in Aided Hearing-Impaired Listeners and the Need for Training
Tobias Neher, Thomas Behrens, Louise Kragelund & Anne Specht Petersen
Impaired auditory functions underlying degraded speech perception in noisy environments
Olaf Strelcyk and Torsten Dau
Temporal suppression of long-latency click-evoked otoacoustic emissions
Sarah Verhulst, James M. Harte, Torsten Dau
The effects of noise reduction on cognitive effort in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired listeners
Anastasios Sarampalis, Sridhar Kalluri, Brent Edwards, Ervin Hafter
The Effect of Interaural Intensity Cues and Expectations of Target Location on Word Identification in Multi-talker Scenes for Younger and Older Adults
Gurjit Singh, Kathy Pichora-Fuller, Bruce Schneider
Word Recognition Performance in Competing Sentence and Multitalker Babble Paradigms in Listeners with Hearing Loss
Sherri L. Smith1, Richard H. Wilson1, and Rachel A. McArdle2
A tool for fine-tuning of hearing aids
Sueli A. Caporali, M:Sc, Ph.D., Audiological Research, Widex A/S
Comparing performance of two high-end hearing aids
Sueli A. Caporali, M:Sc, Ph.D. Audiological Research, Widex A/S
Evaluation of Speech Corpus for Assessment of Spatial Unmasking
Thomas Behrens, Tobias Neher & René Burmand Johannesson
Mechanisms of within- and across-channel processing in comodulation masking release
Tobias Piechowiak and Torsten Dau
Clinical applications of loudness scaling
M.F.B. van Beurden, M. Boymans, E.J.M. Jansen, W.A. Dreschler
Toward an individual-specific model of impaired speech intelligibility
Van Summers, Matthew Makashay, Elena Grassi, Ken W. Grant, Josh Bernstein, Brian E. Walden
Recognition Performance on Single-speaker Recordings of W-22, NU6, & PB-50 by Listeners with Normal Hearing
Richard H. Wilson and Rachel McArdle
Demonstration of a portable system for Auditory Brainstem Recordings, based on pure tone masking difference
Christian Brandt, Ture Andersen, Torsten Dau and Jakob Christensen-Dalsgaard
Learning Volume Control for Hearing Aids
Jos Leenen, Almer van den Berg, Alexander Ypma, Job Geurts and Bert de Vries
The Complexity of Fitting Hearing Aids
Bert de Vries, Tjeerd Dijkstra, Alexander Ypma and Jos Leenen
Assessing sound quality of feedback algorithms with
auditory models
Jeff Bondy, Maureen Coughlin, Bill Whitmer, Andrew Dittberner
