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Schedule of December 2010

The 59th Seminar of Higher-order Brain Disfunction

Co-sponsored by the Center for Applied Perceptual Research and Pathological Brain Science Research Core

Date and time: 1 December 2010, 17:00-18:30
Venue: Kyushu Univ., Maidashi Campus, Clinical Research Bldg., 1st Floor, Conference Room
Talker: Prof. Mark A. Elliott
Title: Brain science of time
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Colloquium of Applied Perceptual Research: The 3rd Session of the "Perception and the Brain" Unit (Auditory Research Meetings)

Co-sponsored by Center for Applied Perceptual Research, Kyushu University, Technical Committee of Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, Acoustical Society of Japan, Auditory Ergonomics Group, Japan Ergonomics Society, and Kyushu Chapter of the Acoustical Society of Japan.

Dates and time: 10 December 2010, 13:00-18:45, and 11 December 2010, 9:00-14:00
Venue: Kanpo-no-Yado Yanagawa, Yanagawa, Fukuoka, Japan

Program

Friday, 10 December 2010

13:00-13:05
Introduction by the organizer and the chair

13:05-13:35
[1] The effects of boundary frequency differences of Japanese noise-vocoded speech on intelligibility: the differences between Japanese and German boundaries are negligible
Kana Doumoto, Kazuo Ueda, Yoshitaka Nakajima (Kyushu Univ.) and Wolfgang Ellermeier (Tech. Univ. Darmstadt)

13:35-14:05
[2] Optimum parameters for a quasi-real-time consonant enhancement system
Ayumu Furukawa, Yoshitaka Nakajima, Kazuo Ueda and Hirotoshi Motomura (Kyushu Univ.)

14:15-15:15
[3] [Invited Lecture] Process timing and its relation to the perception of tonal harmony
Mark A. Elliott (Kyushu Univ. and National Univ. of Ireland) and Aleksandar Aksentijevic (Roehampton Univ.)

15:25-15:55
[4] Explicit and implicit temporal judgments visualized by similarities in electrophysiological signal subspaces
Yoshitaka Nakajima (Kyushu Univ) and Hiroshige Takeichi (RIKEN)

15:55-16:25
[5] Attentional engagement to sound: cortical hemodynamics assessed with near-infrared spectroscopy
G. B. Remijn (Kyushu Univ. and Kanazawa Univ.), M. Kikuchi , Y. Yoshimura, K. Shitamichi, S. Ueno, K. Nagao, H. Kojima and Y. Minabe (Kanazawa Univ.)

16:35-17:05
[6] The influence of visual motion on the perception of time-varying spectral frequency of noise bursts
Takahiro Kawabe (Kyushu Univ.)

17:05-17:35
[7] Mothers' detection to reversed vocalization of infants
Yohko M. Shimada (Kyoto Univ.)

17:45-18:15
[8] Aurally presentation of virtual acoustic obstacle to the blind utilizing acoustic transfer functions
Takahiro Miura (Univ. of Tokyo), Junya Suzuki (Univ. of Tokyo, Univ. of Toyama and Sony Corp.), Teruo Muraoka and Tohru Ifukube (Univ. of Tokyo)

18:15-18:45
[9] (Presentation in Japanese)

19:00-
Banquet

Saturday, 11 December 2010

9:00-11:50 [10]-[14] (Presentations in Japanese)

11:50-13:00 Lunch

13:00-14:00 [15]-[16] (Presentations in Japanese)

15:00- Excursion: Gondola cruising in the Canal of Yanagawa

See the URL below for the further details (Sorry, but most of the descriptions are in Japanese)
http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/asj/H/schedule/schedule_10_12.html

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Colloquium of Applied Perceptual Research: The 1st Session of the "Perception and Virtual Reality" Unit

Date and time: Friday, 17 December 2010, 17:00-18:00
Venue: Kyushu Univ. O'hashi Campus, Bldg. 5, 2nd Floor, Room 524
Talker: Nobu SHIRAI (Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Niigata University)
Title: Various aspects of radial motion perception in infancy
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Colloquium of Applied Perceptual Research: The 4th Session of the "Perception and the Brain" Unit

Date and time: Monday, 27 December 2010, 15:00-17:30
Venue: Kyushu Univ. O'hashi Campus, Bldg. 3, 7th Floor, Room 709 (Kazuo UEDA's office)

Program:

15:00-15:30 Y. Zhai, Kyushu University
"Processing of Japanese Empty Subject Sentences among L1 English /L2 Japanese Learners"

15:30-16:00 S. Antonijevic-Elliott, National University of Ireland
"Verbal Constructions in Monolingual and Bilingual Lexicon"

16:00-16:15 Break

16:15-16:30 K. Ueda and Y. Nakajima, Kyushu University
"Factor analyses of critical-band-filtered speech"

16:30-16:45 Y. Nakajima, K. Ueda, S. Fujimaru, H. Motomura, and Y. Osaka, Kyushu University
"Acoustic Representation of Sonority in British English"

16:45-17:00 H. Motomura, Kyushu University
"Factor analysis of critical-band-filtered Infant Babbling"

17:00-17:15 Y. Yamashita, Kyushu University
"Speech Sounds: The Case of Bilingual Infant" 　

17:30 Party

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Colloquium of Applied Perceptual Research: The 2nd Session of the "Perception and Virtual Reality" Unit

☆This colloquium had been postponed until the date and time below, due to the fact that the talker could not reach Japan, because his point of departure, Heathrow Airport, had been closed due to a heavy snowfall.

Date and time: Wednesday, 29 December 2010, 17:00-18:00
Venue: Kyushu Univ. O'hashi Campus, Bldg. 5, 2nd Floor, Room 524
Talker: Shuichiro TAYA (School of Biological and Chemical Science, Queen Mary, University of London, and Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey)
Title: Top-down modulation of visual perception, cognition, and eye-movement behavior
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