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Announcement of two workshops in Taiwan



Dear List -

I was sent the following announcement of a workshop on auditory
processing and modeling, plus one on hearing loss, to be held in
Taiwan next year. The message was sent to me by Prof. Paul Poon of the
National Cheng Kung University.

  DAn.

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From: ppoon@mail.ncku.edu.tw
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 08:26:48 +0800 (CST)

John Brugge of UW-Madison and myself are currently organizing an auditory
workshop to be held in Taiwan 1997 (together with a clinical hearing
symposium back-to-back). If possible, we would would like to broadcast the
announcement below to your AUDITORY@MCGILL.CA list [...]

Paul Poon
Professor
Dept. of Physiology
National Cheng Kung Univ
Tainan
Taiwan
ppoon@mail.ncku.edu.tw
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AN INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON
CENTRAL AUDITORY PROCESSING AND NEURAL MODELING
Grand Hotel, Kaohsiung, TAIWAN Jan 26-29, 1997

AIM:
To bring together scientists with research interests that bridge experimental
and theoretical approaches to studies of central auditory processing.
Both engineers and biologists are welcome.

SPEAKERS and their talks:

Moshe ABELES *- Israel: Temporal structure of cortical activity
Richard ANDERSEN, USA: Combining of auditory and visual space in the
posterior parietal cortex
John BRUGGE - USA: Spatial receptive field properties of primary auditory
cortical neurons
Mike CALFORD - Australia: Inhibition and inhibitory plasticity in the
mammalian auditory midbrain
Max CYNADER - Canada: Neural mechanisms underlying auditory
localization: some lessons learned from the visual system
Kenji DOYA, Japan: How to use auditory information for articulatory
learning: a computational model for birdsong control system
Reinhard ECKHORN - Germany: Neural principles of visual cortical
processing
George GERSTEIN - USA: Organization and perturbation of neuronal
assemblies
Rick JENISON - USA: Spherical basis function approximation of spatial
receptive fields in auditory cortex: a model linking physiology and
psychophysics
Tsutomu KAMADA* - Japan: Unit response properties in the auditory cortex
of the Japanese monkey
Gerald LANGNER* - Germany: Coding of pitch information in the auditory
system
Petr LANSKY* - Czech Republic: On recent results in modeling of sensory
neurons
John MIDDLEBROOKS - USA: Cortical codes for sound localization
Israel NELKEN - Israel: Specialization of the auditory system for the
analysis of natural sounds
Paul POON - Taiwan: Coding FM and AM sounds at the auditory midbrain
Richard REALE - USA: Spatial receptive field properties of primary auditory
cortical neurons
Terry SEJNOWSKI, USA: (to be announced later)
Jim SIMMONS - USA: Dynamic mechanisms of perception exhibited by bat
biosonar
Nobuo SUGA - USA: Processing of species-specific complex sounds by
combination-sensitive neurons
Josef SYKA* - Czech Republic: Processing of vocalization signals in neurons
of the inferior colliculus and medial geniculate body
T.K. TRUONG - Taiwan: Medical image data compression
J.F. WANG - Taiwan: Artificial neural network and speech recognition
Tom YIN - USA: Behavioral and physiological studies of sound localization
in the cat
Eric YOUNG - USA: Models of a model system: the internal organization of
the dorsal cochlear nucleus
(*also Member, International Advisory Committee)

Topics:

Parallels in Processing between Auditory and other Neural Systems
Processing of Complex Sound and Vocalizations
Feature Extraction, Binding, and Motion Detection
Functional Organization and Maps of the Brain
Auditory Localization, Spatial Hearing
Neural Network Models
Artificial Neural Networks
Temporal Coding
Neural Synchrony and Oscillation
Neural Assemblies
Neural Plasticity
Stochastic Neural Models
Spike Train Analysis
Physiology and Psychophysics of Hearing
Sensori-motor Processing and Learning
Perception and Behavior
Speech Recognition

Co-chairs, Organizing Committee:
Paul Poon   National Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan (ppoon@mail.ncku.edu.tw)
John Brugge Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, USA (brugge@waisman.wisc.edu)

Organizers: Department of Physiology, National Cheng Kung University,
Medical College, National Science Council, Ministry of Education, and
Department of Health, Taiwan, Republic of China.

Venue and Climate:
The Grand Hotel of Kaohsiung, Chinese-palace style, is located a scenic lake.
Near Kaohsiung's International Airport (1-hr flight from Hong Kong).
Weather is mild and dry: 15-25 deg C (60-80 deg F).

INFORMATION:
Dr. Mei-Ling Tsai, Workshop Secretariat, Dept. of Physiology, National
Cheng Kung University-Medical School, 1 University Road, Tainan, Taiwan.
Fax: (886) 6-236-2780. E-mail: audmodel @ alpha8.dec.ncku.edu.tw.
For updates please visit Web site:
http://wwwphys.med.ncku.edu.tw/A_wshop.htm.

REGISTRATION FEE (without accommodation):
US$250 (after Nov 15, 1996 add US$100)

ABSTRACTS (free communications in the form of poster presentation are now
invited):
Abstracts should be typed double-space on a single A4., must be sent with the
Registration form by deadline of November 15, 1996  to the Workshop
Secretariat and simultaneously e-mailed to:
Audmodel@alpha8.dec.ncku.edu.tw

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AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
HEARING LOSS AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS
January 26, 1997
Grand Hotel, Kaohsiung, TAIWAN

Organizers:Taiwan Neurological Society, Otolaryngological Society of the
Republic of China, Kao-Hsiung Medical School, Taiwan, and Department of
Health, Republic of China.

AIM:
        To bring our attention to various industrial factors related to hearing
loss with special emphasis on the current concept of environmental protection
against undesirable noise. Other factors that may lead to hearing impairment
and general aspects of hearing loss will also be covered.
        In order to bring together clinicians and basic scientists who are
interested in hearing science, this clinically-oriented Symposium will be
followed immediately by a basic auditory workshop: Central Auditory
Processing and Neural Modeling, held at the same venue (see above).
You are kindly encouraged to enroll in both conferences.

SPEAKERS and their talks:
Leslie MICHAELS, MD FRCPath, University College, London, UK:
Aging in the temporal bone; Presbyacusis
Deepak PRASHER, PhD, Institute of Otology and Laryngology, University
College, London, UK: Occupational hearing loss; Susceptible factors in
occupational hearing loss --- a pan-European multi-nation study
Sava SOUCEK, MD PhD, St. Mary Hospital, London, UK: Hearing in AIDS
patients; Noise-induced hearing loss in musician
Trong-N WU, PhD, Department of Health, Taiwan: Surveillance of noise-
induced hearing loss in Taiwan: a report of Ta-Fu area
Tsan-Ju CHEN, PhD, Kaohsiung Medical School, Taiwan: Influence of
aircraft noise on hearing and brainstem auditory function
Hwang-Ching LIN, MD Msc, Taipei Mackay Hospital, Taiwan: Otoacousti
emission in the hearing impaired

INFORMATION:
Workshop Secretariat, Dr. M.L. Tsai, Department of Physiology,
National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan,
Email: Audmodel@alpha8.dec.ncku.edu.tw
Fax: 886 6 236 2780 Tel: 886 6 235 3535 ext 5436
Web site: http://wwwphys.med.ncku.edu.tw/E_factor.htm

ABSTRACTS (free communications in the form of poster presentation are now
invited):
Abstracts should be typed double-space on a single A4., must be sent with
the Registration form by deadline of November 15, 1996  to the Workshop
Secretariat and simultaneously e-mailed to:
Audmodel@alpha8.dec.ncku.edu.tw

REGISTRATION FEE (without accommodation):
a. $100 US, or
b. free if registered with the accompanying Workshop: Central Auditory
Processing and Neural Modeling (see above).

Venue and Climate:
The Grand Hotel of Kaohsiung, Chinese-palace style, is located a scenic lake.
Near Kaohsiung's International Airport (1-hr flight from Hong Kong).
Weather is mild and dry: 15-25 deg C (60-80 deg F).

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