Invited Speakers

The auditory brain
Ed Bartlett, Marc Schönwiesner, Anne-Lise Giraud, Giovanni Di Liberto

Multisensory perception and communication in real-world environments
Janina Fels, Stephanie Lovich, Christopher Davis, Ivana Konvalinka

Computational audiology, AI and auditory profiling
Nicholas Lesica, Mareike Buhl, Jenelle Feather, Tobias Goehring

Novel hearing technologies and compensation strategies
Varsha Rallapalli, Zheng-Hua Tan, Richard Hendriks, Ina Kodrasi

Keynote lecture: Jessica Monaghan

Schedule

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  • 2025
  • 20 Aug
  • 21 Aug
  • 22 Aug
08:30 - 09:30Registration and hanging of posters
09:30 - 10:00Welcome

Introduction by TORSTEN DAU

10:00 - 11:00[Session 1a] The auditory brain

10:00 – 10:30                JONATAN MÄRCHER-RØRSTED
Peripheral and central effects of auditory aging

10:30 – 11:00                MARC SCHÖNWIESNER
Representations of space in the auditory cortex

11:00 - 11:20Coffee break
11:20 - 12:00[Session 1b] The auditory brain

11:20 – 11:40                ADÈLE SIMON
Role of sound onsets and offsets in cortical tracking of transient events during naturalistic speech listening

11:40 – 12:00                LINDSEY VAN YPER
Towards an objective measure of binaural unmasking in school-age children

12:00 - 13:30Lunch
13:30 - 15:00[Session 1c] The auditory brain

13:30 – 14:00                GIOVANNI DI LIBERTO
Investigating auditory cognition with natural speech and music

14:00 – 14:30                ANNE-LISE GIRAUD
Auditory oscillations: disorders and evolution of language

14:30 – 14:50                MARTIN ORF
Beyond the lab: A reliable pipeline linking gait, EEG, and speech in ecologically valid communication tasks

15:00 - 17:00Poster Session I (with coffee)

Odd-numbered posters

17:00 - 17:50[Session 2a] Multisensory perception and communication in real-world environments

17:00 – 17:30                CHRISTOPHER DAVIS 
Multisensory perception and communication in real-world environments: a range of effects

17:30 – 17:50                KELLY MILES
Mapping the curve of communication breakdowns during conversations in noise: interactions with hearing loss and aiding

17:50 - 18:20Coffee break
18:20 - 19:00[Session 2b] Multisensory perception and communication in real-world environments

18:20 – 18:40                INGVI ÖRNÓLFSSON 
Noise impairs collaboration in a triadic joint decision-making task

18:40 – 19:00                CUMHUR ERKUT
Real-time AI inference and deployment for immersive virtual reality interventions of auditory verbal hallucinations

19:00 - 20:30Dinner
20:30 - 23:00Posters and social
08:30 - 10:00[Session 2c] Multisensory perception and communication in real-world environments

08:30 – 09:00                STEPHANIE LOVICH
Mechanisms underlying Eye Movement-Related Eardrum Oscillations (EMREOs)

09:00 – 09:30                IVANA KONVALINKA
Temporal coordination of bodily rhythms and turn-taking dynamics in conversation

09:30 – 10:00                JANINA FELS
Exploring auditory cognition: Connecting real-world contexts with interactive virtual environments

10:00 - 10:30Coffee break and group picture
10:30 - 12:00[Session 3a] Computational audiology, AI and auditory profiling

10:30 – 11:00                NICHOLAS LESICA
Restoration of the neural code for speech through optimal hearing aids

11:00 – 12:00                DEMANT KEYNOTE LECTURE: JESSICA MONAGHAN
Applications of speech-based artificial intelligence to childhood hearing assessment

12:00 - 13:30Lunch
13:30 - 14:30[Session 3b] Computational audiology, AI and auditory profiling

13:30 – 14:00                JENELLE FEATHER
Successes and failures of machine learning models of sensory systems

14:00 – 14:30                TOBIAS GOEHRING
Leveraging AI to improve and assess speech perception with cochlear implants

14:30 - 15:00Coffee break
15:00 - 16:10[Session 3c] Computational audiology, AI and auditory profiling

15:00 – 15:30                MAREIKE BUHL
Clinical decision support systems for audiology

15:30 – 15:50                NIKLAS ISSERSTEDT 
Correlations between audiometric, tone-in-noise and speech-in-noise thresholds as well as between subject-specific auditory model parameters

15:50 – 16:10                GERARD ENCINA-LLAMAS
Towards a hearing loss map: Phenotyping complex audiological data beyond audiometry

16:10 - 18:00Poster Session II (with coffee)

Even-numbered posters

18:00 - 19:00[Session 4a] Novel hearing technologies and compensation strategies

18:00 – 18:30                VARSHA RALLAPALLI
Toward natural sound: Benefits of multi-source compression

18:30 – 19:00                ZHENG-HUA TAN
Self-supervised learning for speech and audio applications

19:00 - 20:30Dinner
20:30 - 23:00Posters and social
09:00 - 10:20[Session 4b] Novel hearing technologies and compensation strategies

09:00 – 09:30                INA KODRASI
Advances in signal processing and AI for clinical speech assessment

09:30 – 10:00                RICHARD C. HENDRIKS 
Personalized auditory scene modification to assist hearing impaired people

10:00 – 10:20                JOHANNES W. DE VRIES
Interpreting equalization-cancellation as an internal beamformer

10:20 - 10:50Coffee break
10:50 - 11:50[Session 4c] Novel hearing technologies and compensation strategies

10:50 – 11:10        BRIAN C. J. MOORE
A method for combining amplitude compression with noise reduction in hearing aids

11:10 – 11:30        FLORIAN DENK
Binaural broadband loudness summation in the hearing-impaired population and potential implications for hearing aid fitting strategies

11:30 – 11:50        JOHN CULLING 
The Clarity enhancement challenges: improving hearing aid signal processing

11:50 - 12:00Conclusion

Closing remarks by TORSTEN DAU

12:00 - 14:00Lunch
14:00 - 15:00Satellite Hybrid Workshop on ‘The Clarity Challenge’

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