Conveners
A14.05 Neural substrates of complex auditory perception and auditory scene analysis: P491
- Katrin Krumbholz (University of Nottingham)
- Joseph Sollini (University of Nottingham)
A14.05 Neural substrates of complex auditory perception and auditory scene analysis: S102
- Katrin Krumbholz (University of Nottingham)
- Joseph Sollini (University of Nottingham)
A14.05 Neural substrates of complex auditory perception and auditory scene analysis: P530
- Joseph Sollini (University of Nottingham)
- Katrin Krumbholz (University of Nottingham)
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Luna Prud'homme (Université libre de Bruxelles)09/09/2026, 09:00A14 Physiological Acoustics and Audiology
Understanding speech in background noise is a complex task, and adolescents persistently perform worse than adults in situations in which the competing noise is composed of interfering talkers (informational masking). The underlying mechanisms explaining this protracted development of performance are still not completely understood although they could be related to the recruitement of...
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Maryam Bajool (Technische Universität München)09/09/2026, 14:20A14 Physiological Acoustics and Audiology
Auditory attention decoding (AAD) aims to determine from neural recordings which sound source a listener is attending to. Here, we formulate spatial auditory attention decoding (SAAD) as a subject-independent end-to-end task, jointly modeling EEG signals and Gammatone-based audio representations to decode the attended spatial direction. While conventional approaches assume access to clean...
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Mohamad Mahdi Mkanna (German National Metrology Institute)09/09/2026, 14:40A14 Physiological Acoustics and Audiology
Exposure to low-frequency sound and infrasound is becoming increasingly common in modern environments, yet their neural processing remains insufficiently understood. This study investigates human auditory processing of low-frequency and infrasound stimuli using 64-channel electroencephalography (EEG), with a focus on late auditory evoked potentials (LAEPs), which reflect higher-order auditory...
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Ulysse LEFEUVRE (L-Acoustics)09/09/2026, 15:00A14 Physiological Acoustics and Audiology
Humans frequently introduce music or ambient sound into everyday environments, often without actively attending to it, suggesting that continuous auditory backgrounds may serve functions beyond pleasure or entertainment. We tested the hypothesis that such backgrounds reduce sensitivity to sudden events, whereas silence leaves the brain and body more vulnerable to acoustic surprise. To probe...
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Katrin Krumbholz (University of Nottingham)09/09/2026, 15:20A14 Physiological Acoustics and Audiology
Adaptation is a ubiquitous feature of neural responses and has been used extensively to probe cortical tuning properties with non‑invasive methods, particularly fMRI. This approach typically assumes that adaptation reflects fixed sensory tuning. However, neuro‑ and electrophysiological evidence suggests that cortical adaptation may itself be dynamically shaped by stimulus history.Using...
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Jörg Encke (Macquarie University)09/09/2026, 15:40A14 Physiological Acoustics and Audiology
Cortical processing of auditory scenes is thought to be organised along a ventral "what" and a dorsal "where" pathway; here we ask whether these pathways are differentially engaged by sounds that differ only in the reliability of their spatial cues. Although we perceive auditory objects with unique sources and locations, everyday acoustic environments are replete with echoes and reverberation,...
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Joseph Sollini (University of Nottingham)09/09/2026, 16:00A14 Physiological Acoustics and Audiology
Neural inhibition is observed at every nuclei of the central auditory system and has been implicated in a range of functions, such as: spatial cue derivation, controlling gain, sharpening frequency tuning and sharpening temporal sensitivity. In our own work we have observed a role for central inhibition, i.e. inhibition in the central auditory system, in the processing of broadband sounds. We...
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Boris Gourevitch (Institut de l'Audition, Institut Pasteur)10/09/2026, 09:00A14 Physiological Acoustics and Audiology
The soundscape concept characterizes the acoustic environment as perceived by individuals within their context. To classify these sounds, the categories of geophony, biophony, and anthropophony have been proposed for natural, animal, and human-produced sources, respectively. Urban environments present a unique soundscape to which inhabitants are continuously exposed, significantly impacting...
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