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- Meetings are held in Chandler House at 4pm on Thursday, unless otherwise stated.
- Talks are held in the building where SHaPS is located: Chandler House, 2 Wakefield Street, London WC1N 1PF. (map link)
- All are welcome!
Contact Nadine Lavan or Chengxia Wang for more information.
Current scheduled talks for 2018-2019
| Term 3 | 2018/2019 | |
|---|---|---|
| Date/room | Name | Title and Abstract |
25th of April, 4pm G15 | Ella Jeffries (University of Essex) | Children’s developing awareness of regional accents |
2nd of May, 4pm 118 | Sophie Scott (UCL) | It's about time: computational processing differences in rostral and caudal auditory fields, and the implications for speech and sound processing |
9th of May, 4pm 118 | Joanne Cleland (University of Strathclyde） | Using Ultrasound tongue imaging to teach children with speech disorders new articulations |
| 16th of May, 4pm 118 | Ediz Sohoglu (MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge) | Perceiving (and learning to perceive) speech |
| 23rd of May, 4pm 118 | Alex Billig (UCL) | Perception of ambiguous speech and related auditory cortical activity |
30th of May, 4pm 118 | Mark Fletcher (University of Southhampton) | Electro-haptic hearing: Improving spatial hearing and speech-in-noise performance in cochlear implant users by presenting sound information through vibration on the wrists |
6th of June, 4pm 118 | Gwijde Maegherman (UCL) | TBA |
| Term 2 | 2018/2019 | |
|---|---|---|
| Date/room | Name | Title and Abstract |
17th Jan, 4pm G10 | Gavin Tyte | Towards a common language for beatboxing sounds |
24th Jan, 4pm G10 | Gwen Brekelmans（UCL） | Phonetic vowel training: the effect of input variability |
31st Jan, 4pm G10 | Maria Chait (UCL） | Sensitivity to statistical structure facilitates perceptual analysis of complex auditory scenes |
| 21st of Feb, 4pm G10 | Mark Huckvale (UCL) | So what is this thing called "Deep Learning" anyway? |
| 28th of Feb, 4pm G10 | Anqi Xu (UCL) | Can infants learn to speak by acoustic imitation? |
7th of Mar, 4pm G10 | Giulia Borghini (UCL) | The pupil as a window to the listening brain: listening effort during non-native speech perception |
14th of Mar, 4pm B02 | Amalia Arvaniti (University of Kent) | Crosslinguistic variation, phonetic variability, and the formation of categories in intonation |
| 18th of Mar, 4pm 118 | Nobuaki Minematsu (The University of Tokyo) | How can speech technologies support learners to improve their skills of speaking, listening, conversation and more? |
21th of Mar, 4pm 118 | Faith Chiu & Sven Mattys (University of York) | Duration underestimation under cognitive load |
| Term 1 | 2018-2019 | |
|---|---|---|
| Date/room | Name | Title and Abstract |
| 27th Sept, 4pm 118 | Laurel Lawyer (University of Essex) | Overhearing: The processing of unattended continuous speech in adults, normal hearing children, and children with cochlear implants.  ssf_lawyer.pdf |
| 4th Oct, 4pm 118 | Axelle Calcus (UCL) | Neural processing of speech in children with sensorineural hearing loss. |
| 18th Oct, 5pm B01 | Léo Varnet (UCL) | New methodologies for studying listening strategies in phoneme categorization tasks |
| 25th Oct, 5pm 118 | Robert Lennon (University of Leeds) | Experience and learning in cross-dialect perception: Ambiguous /r/ in Glasgow |
| 15th Nov, 5pm 118 | Petra Hödl (University of Graz) | The Styrian banter: Production and Perception of Austrian German word-initial plosives |
| 22nd Nov, 4pm 118 | Gesa Hartwigsen (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Leipzig) | Modulation of language networks with non-invasive brain stimulation ssf_hartwigsen.pdf |
| 29th Nov, 4pm 118 | Velia Cardin (University of East Anglia) | Neural reorganisation as a consequence of congenital deafness |
| 3rd Dec (Mon), 4pm 118 | Douglas Hartley (University of Nottingham) | Functional near-infrared spectroscopy to predict cochlear implant outcome |
| 6th Dec, 4pm 118 | Emma Holmes (UCL) | Cognitive influences on speech intelligibility in people with normal and impaired hearing |
| 13th Dec, 5pm 118 | Sam Kirkham (Lancaster University) | Sociophonetic variation and articulatory dynamics in speech production |