Followup on the Paris Workshop on Decoding

By all accounts a success. Some of the slides and other information can be found on the workshop webpage. Joint decoding of audio and brain is one of the main tasks of COCOHA, and this workshop allowed us to tap a wide range of expertise, sensitize the scientific community to this need, and build a network…

COCOHA at the CAL 2015

The CAL symposium aimed at defining a roadmap and assemble a consortium to influence future funding for research the area of hearing impairment remediation (cochlear implants and hearing aids). It was loosely organized around the theme of the “efferent system”, the centrifugal neural pathway by which the brain controls the peripheral sensory organs and low-level brainstem…

ENS Data Challenge

ENS is hosting a Kaggle-style data challenge for machine learning classification/regression problems at challengedata.ens.fr. With the support of Ed Lalor and James O’Sullivan, we have posted our own contribution: Attentional Selection at a Cocktail Party Short Description Use electroencephalography (EEG) data to identify which speaker a person is paying attention to. Challenge Context Auditory scenes with…