Johns Hopkins University, The Center for Hearing and Balance


Structure and Function of the Auditory and Vestibular Systems

Archives 2008 - 2009

Organizer: Brad May, PhD


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Syllabus 2008-2009


Semester 1


2008_09_04        Overview of the Auditory Periphery: PowerPoint (Fuchs)

2008_09_04        Overview of the Auditory Periphery: Handout (Fuchs)

2008_09_11        Auditory Hair Cell Structure and Transduction (Glowatzki)

2008_09_16        Adaptation of Mechanotransduction, Feedback, and Tuning (Fuchs)

2008_09_18        Hair Cell Synaptic Transmission (Glowatzki)

2008_09_23        Cochlear Mechanics (Spector)

2008_09_25        Outer Hair Cell Electromotility (Spector)

2008_09_30        Structure of the Ear (Francis)

2008_10_02        The Auditory Nerve (Young)

2008_10_07        The Ventral Cochlear Nucleus (Ryugo)

2008_10_09        The Dorsal Cochlear Nucleus (Ryugo)

2008_10_14        Physiology of Hearing Loss 1 (Young)

2008_10_16        Physiology of Hearing Loss 2 (Young)

2008_10_21        Clinical perspectives on Hearing Loss (Niparko)

2008_10_23        Peripheral Vestibular System 1 (Carey)

2008_10_28        Peripheral Vestibular System 2 (Carey)

2008_11_08        Peripheral Vestibular System 3 (Della Santina)

2008_11_25        Development of the Ear (Fuchs)

2008_12_02        Central Vestibular Impairments (Zee)

2008_12_04        Common Vestibular Problems (Carey)

2009_01_27        Overview of Central Auditory Anatomy (Ryugo)

2009_01_29        Efferent Influences on the Auditory Periphery (Fuchs)

2009_02_03        Efferent Influences on the Auditory Behavior (May)

2009_02_05        Efferent Influences on the Vestibular System (Minor)

2009_02_10        Information Theory (Young)

2009_02_24        Psychoacoustics of Sound Localization (Young)

2009_02_26        Physiology of Sound Localization (Young)

2009_03_03        Sound Localization in Birds (Carr)

2009_03_05        The Inferior Colliculus (May)

2009_03_10        Speech Perception (May)

2009_03_12        Electroreception (Fortune)

2009_03_24        Tonotopic Organization of Auditory Cortex (Wang)

2009_03_26        Temporal Coding in Auditory Cortex (Wang)

2009_03_31        Spectral Coding in Auditory Cortex (Wang)

2009_04_02        Adaptation to Novel Gravito-Inertial Environments (Solomon)

2009_04_07        Central Vestibular Mechanisms (Sadeghi)

2009_04_09        Vestibular Rehabilitation (Schubert)

2009_04_14        Vocal Learning and Development in Song Birds (Ball)

2009_04_21        Vestibular Adaptation (Shelhamer)

2009_04_23        Context-Specific Adaptation (Shelhamer)

2009_04_28        Cortical Plasticity (Fritz)

2009_04_30        Neural Representation of Music in the Human Brain (Limb)