[BIC-announce] CRBLM Seminars for the week of October 17th; Dr. Sylvie Hébert on October 19th; Dr. Etienne de Villers-Sidani on October 20th

[VIncent Gracco]

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> Reply-To: Lisa Coady <lisa.coady at mcgill.ca>
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> Hello everyone,
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> The Centre for Research on Brain, Language and Music is pleased to invite you to two seminars being given by our faculty this week.
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> On Wednesday, October 19th at 3:30 pm, Dr. Sylvie Hébert will present "Auditory and non-auditory factors in tinnitus" in Room 501 of the Goodman Cancer Centre, McGill Life Sciences Complex, 1160 Pine ave. West
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> Abstract:
> Tinnitus is a prevalent hearing disorder that can be debilitating to some individuals. I will discuss some current neuroscientific models of tinnitus, and will show, more specifically, that hearing damage is a necessary but not sufficient condition for tinnitus to appear, and that factors that have always been seen as a consequence of tinnitus might in fact turn out to be predisposing factors.
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> Link: http://www.mcgill.ca/channels/events/item/?item_id=201925
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> On Thursday, October 20th at 4:00 pm, Dr. Etienne de Villers-Sidani will present "Lifelong shaping of auditory cortical processing by sensory experience"  at the BRAMS Laboratory (Pavillon 1420 Mont Royal, Entrée/Door 1430, Salle 0-120, Université de Montréal - à 5 minutes du métro Édouard-Montpetit)
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> Abstract:
> The rodent auditory cortex has provided a particularly useful model for studying cortical plasticity phenomenology and mechanisms, both in infant and in adult animal models.  Much of our initial understanding of the neurological processes underlying learning-induced changes in the cortex stems from the early exploitation of this model.  More recent studies have provided a rich and elaborate demonstration of the “rules” governing representational plasticity induced during the critical period, and in the longer post-critical-period “adult” plasticity epoch.  These studies have also contributed importantly to the application of these “rules” to the development of practical training tools designed to improve the functional capacities of the auditory, language and reading capacities of both children with developmental impairments, and adults with acquired impairments in the auditory/aural speed and related cognitive domains.
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> Using age as a connecting thread, I will review recent studies performed in the rat primary auditory cortex (A1) that have provided further insight into the role of sensory experience in the shaping auditory signal representations, and into their possible role in shaping the machinery that regulates ‘adult’ plasticity in A1.  With this background, the role of auditory training in the remediation of auditory processing impairments is briefly discussed.

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