| May 2016 | Christine Petit, M.D., Ph.D. College de France Institut Pasteur Understanding hearing mechanisms: avenues opened up by deafness genes |
| March 2016 | Karen Iler Kirk, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Speech and Hearing Science Assessing Audiovisual Spoken Word Recognition in Listeners with Hearing Loss |
| October 2015 | Barbara Canlon, Professor Karolinska Institutet Circadian Regulation of Auditory Function |
| April 2015 | Ruth Anne Eatock, Ph.D. University of Chicago Department of Neurobiology Vestibular hair cells and afferents: Driving fast reflexes |
| March 2015 | Gerald Kidd, Ph.D. Boston University College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences: Sargent College Understanding speech in complex environments: The benefits of a “visually-guided hearing aid” for solving the “cocktail party problem” |
| February 2015 | Allison Coffin, Ph.D. Washington State University Vancouver Protecting our hearing, one fish at a time: hair cell death and protection in a zebrafish model system |
| September 2014 | Ruth Litovsky, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison Emergence of Hearing and Language in Pediatric Cochlear Implant Users |
| April 2014 | Andrew K. Groves, Ph.D. Baylor College of Medicine The Challenges of Regeneration of the Mammalian Cochlea |
| January 2014 | Donald Caspary, Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Plasticity and the Danger of Low-hanging Fruit: Central Auditory Neurotransmission in Aging and Tinnitus |
| November 2013 | Peter Narins, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles Ground sound detection in golden moles: Compensating for reduced vision with geophone ears |
| April 2013 | Mikko Sams, Ph.D., Alto University Real-world (almost) caused brain activity |
| January 2013 | Jenny Saffran, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin Sounds and Meanings working together: Word learning as a collaborative effort |
| November 2012 | Lisa Goodrich, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School Making sense of sound: spiral ganglion neuron development and function |
| July 2012 | Huanping Dai, Ph.D., University of Arizona The Pitch of Harmonic Sound |
| April 2012 | Jonathan Fritz, Ph.D., Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland From Sound to Meaning – Dynamic Transformations in Auditory Signal-Processing |
| February 2013 | *Arnold Starr, M.D., Research Professor, Neurology School of Medicine Research Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior School of Biological Sciences University of California – Irvine Hearing disorders, accompanying disorders of the auditory nerve, and hair cell ribbon synapses |
| January 2012 | Sharon Kujawa, Ph.D., Department of Audiology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear After the Noise Stops: Cochlear Nerve Degeneration after “Temporary” Noise-Induced Hearing Loss |
| December 2011 | Ed Rubel, Ph.D., Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, University of Washington Fish in a Dish: Discovering Genetic and Chemical Modulators of Inner Ear Hair Cell Death |
| October 2011 | Christopher Brown, Ph.D., Department of Speech and Hearing Science, Arizona State University Delivering fine-structure cues to cochlear implant users |
| September 2011 | Christopher Stecker, Ph.D., Department of Speech & Hearing Sciences, University of Washington How does the human brain understand auditory space |
| May 2011 | Deda Gillespie, Dept. of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University Tuning the immature auditory brainstem to listen |
| March 2011 | J.Wiebe Horst, Dept. Of Otorhinolaryngology, University Medical Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands Temporal coding and input-output curves in hearing and Neal Viemeister, Ph.D., Professor Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota Dynamic auditory frequency resolution |
| September 2010 | Andrej Kral, Professor of Auditory Neurophysiology Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, Germany What makes sensitive periods critical? |
| June 2010 | Doug Cotanche, Department of Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery Boston University School of Medicine Cell Fate Decisions in Cochlear Hair Cell Development and Regeneration |
| November 2009 | Melanie Ferguson, Clinical Scientist (Audiology) National Biomedical Research Unit in Hearing Nottingham, England Understanding auditory processing disorder in children, its characteristics and management |
| October 2009 | Ana Belén Elgoyhen, Ph.D. National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET), Buenos Aires Investigator: Institute for Research on Genetic Engineering & Molecular Biology The Efferent Olivocochlear System and Protection from Acoustic Trauma |
| May 2009 | Tobias Moser, M.D. Georg-August-University, Goettingen Medical Faculty, Department of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Molecular physiology of the hair cell ribbon synapse |
| February 2009 | *Robert W. Sweetow, Ph.D. Director of Audiology; Professor of Otolaryngology University of California – San Francisco Clinical Management of the Tinnitus Patient |
| November 2008 | Dan Goldreich, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Inference under uncertainty: how a Bayesian brain perceives the physical world |
| October 2008 | Ervin Hafter, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Departmental Areas – Cognition, Brain & Behavior, Director: Auditory Perception Lab University of California – Berkeley A role for trace memory in shared attention |
| June 2008 | Brian McDermott, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery Case Western Reserve University Analysis and functional evaluation of the hair-cell transcriptome |
| April 2008 | David Kemp, Ph.D., University College, London, Ear Institute OAEs: Sound from ears. Where does it come from and where is it leading us? |
| February 2008 | *James Jerger, Ph.D. Distinguished Scholar in Residence University of Texas, Dallas Listening to Words: An Electrophysiological Perspective |
| December 2007 | Anu Sharma, Ph.D. Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder Cortical development and re-organization in children with cochlear implants |
| December 2007 | Jeffrey R. Holt, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Virginia, School of Medicine The Molecules and Mechanisms of Mechanosensation in the Mammalian Inner Ear |
| October 2007 | Mikkos Sams, Ph.D. Helsinki University of Technology, Laboratory of Computational Engineering From reactive to active auditory system |
| October 2007 | Christoph Schreiner, Ph.D. University of California – San Francisco Cellular mechanisms of auditory cortical function and plasticity |
| October 2007 | Carrick L. Talmadge, Ph.D. University of Mississippi, National Center for Physical Acoustics Human cochlear physics: theory and experiment |
| May 2006 | Brad May, Ph.D. Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Johns Hopkins University Sensory screening procedures for mouse models of hearing |
| May 2006 | Dan Sanes, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Neural Science and Biology New York University Functional development of the auditory central nervous system & the impact of hearing loss |
| February 2006 | Peter Heil, Ph.D. Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology, Germany Temporal summation and auditory pattern recognition |
| February 2006 | David R. Moore, Ph.D. Director of the Medical Research Council Institute of Hearing Research University of Oxford, U. K. Auditory learning in theory and practice |
| March 2006 | *Brian C. J. Moore, Ph.D. Professor of Auditory Perception University of Cambridge, U. K. Perception of pitch by normally hearing & hearing-impaired people |
| October 2005 | Kelly L. Tremblay, Ph.D. University of Washington, Seattle The aging auditory system: physiological perspectives on temporal processing and auditory rehabilitation |
* Lectures sponsored in conjunction with the Doctor of Audiology Program, Northwestern University