Auditory Imagination and Priming: Pilot projects from the 2014 Telluride Neuromorphic Engineering Cognition Workshop
At this week’s Hearing Seminar, I want to describe several pilot experiments that were done over the summer. This work was part of the Telluride Neuromorphic Cognition workshop that is held every summer in Telluride, Co. It’s a rather scenic location, but is totally inundated with auditory perception nerds (and others) for three weeks of working workshop. Science in the mountains. Imagine that. Auditory science at that!
Who: Malcolm Slaney (Microsoft Research and Stanford CCRMA)
What: Auditory Imagination and Priming
When: Friday November 21 at 11AM
Where: CCRMA Seminar Room, Top Floor of the Knoll at Stanford
Why: Because hallucinations ‘R Us :-)
I can’t say we solved the auditory perception problem, or even came close, but we had fun, and we have some intriguing experiments and results.
Come to CCRMA and we’ll make your imagination a bit less mysterious. Or at least try to. OK we’ll certainly talk about audition!
"Auditory Imagination and Priming: Pilot projects from the 2014 Telluride Neuromorphic Engineering Cognition Workshop"
I will discuss several (pilot) projects that we undertook at the 2014 Neuromorphic Cognition Workshop, all aimed at building a better understanding of how top-down processing affects auditory processing. Specifically, we looked at imagined and primed sounds, and used EEG signals to see if we could measure their impact on auditory perception. Our preliminary experiments found evidence of auditory filters tuned to high-level percepts like speech. It's not the auditory grandmother cell, but we hope it’s a step in that direction.
Joint work with Alain de Cheveigné, Andre van Schaik, Chetan Singh Thakur, David Karpul, Dorothee Arzounian, Edmund Lalor, Ernst Niebur, Giovanni Di Liberto, Guillaume Garreau, James O’Sullivan, Jessica Thompson, John Foxe, Manu Rastogi, Marcela Mendoza, Psyche Loui, Shih-Chii Liu, Simon Kelly, Siohoi Ieng, Thomas Murray, Tobi Delbruck, Victor Benichoux, Victor Minces, Vikram Ramanarayanan, Yves Boubenec
Malcolm Slaney
Principal Researcher, Speech and Dialog Group, Microsoft Research
Consulting Professor, CCRMA, Stanford University
Affiliate Professor, Electrical Engineering, University of Washington