Several members of CAHR will be presenting their work at the Acoustics 2012 Hong Kong conference.  This conference, taking place from May 13-18, is a joint meeting of four societies: 163rd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, the 8th meeting of the of Acoustical Society of China, the 11th Western Pacific Acoustics Conference, and the Hong Kong Institute of Acoustics.

When talkers speak, they also listen. Talkers routinely adapt to their interlocutors and environment, maintaining intelligibility and dialogue fluidity in a way that promotes efficient exchange of information. The Listening Talker Workshop held in Edinburgh from May 2-3 (http://listening-talker.org/workshop), brought together a wide range of researchers to address this multi-disciplinary topic.  As part of the workshop, CAHR presented two posters and an invited talk.

Marton Marschall wins the Student Technical Paper Award at the Audio Engineering Society’s 132 Convention.

How essential are place and temporal fine-structure cues for high-frequency complex pitch?

In a talk at the New Ideas in Hearing 2012: Hot topics in Audiology (http://audition.ens.fr/newideas3/index.html), Sébastien Santurette presented a provocative answer to this question.

German students and professors from CAHR will be attending and presenting at the 38th Meeting of the German Acoustical Society (DAGA) in Darmstadt (www.daga2012.de) from Mar 19-22, 2012.

 CAHR will be well represented at this year's meeting being held in San Diego, CA, USA from Feb. 25-29.  Several members from CAHR will be presenting their research on a wide range of topics:

When grown-ups and kids speak, they listen to the sound of their voice and make corrections based on that auditory feedback. But new evidence shows that toddlers don't respond to their own voice in quite the same way, according to a report published online on December 22, 2011 in Current Biology, a Cell Press publication by associate professor Ewen MacDonald, DTU Elektro.

Read the press release.