Speaker:
Professor Jennifer Bizley
Bio:
Jennifer Bizley is a Professor of Auditory Neuroscience at the UCL Ear Institute and a Wellcome Career Development Fellowship holder. Her lab was established at UCL in 2011, and focusses on how the brain reconstructs auditory scenes, and how vision and movement may support listening in complex environments. Her lab’s research combines behavioural testing in humans, with behaviour, electrophysiology and computational approaches, and has been funded by the Wellcome Trust, Royal Society, BBSRC, RNID and the ERC.
Date:
3 March 2027
Time:
7:30pm – 9:00pm
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Lecture: Professor Jennifer Bizley
Summary
We are immersed in a rich, three-dimensional soundscape that is, in turn, fully integrated into our multisensory perception of the world. Yet your brain only has access to is the representation of sound frequency that is encoded at your two ears. From this, it must figure out which sound elements belong to your friend’s voice, and which belong to the voice of the man on the table next to you, the coffee machine on the counter, and the cars in the street outside. In this talk we will consider how the brain constructs your perception of sound, including how what you seeing and hearing combine.
