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• Session on “Integrated approaches to auditory scene analysis”, Joint meeting of Acoustical Society of America, the European Acoustics Association, and the Société Française d'Acoustique, Paris June 29-July 4, 2008.

• Zoophysiology and Behaviour Group, Dept of Biology and Behavioural Sciences, University of Oldenburg, Germany; 1 Feb 2008.

• Centre for Computer Music Research, Univ. of Plymouth; 19 Nov 2007.

• Novartis Foundation discussion meeting on 'Auditory Objects', London, 1-2 October 2007

• Special session 'Computational models of the auditory system', International Congress on Acoustics, Madrid 2-7 Sept 2007.
  

• Invited participant, Neuromorphic Spring Meeting, Sardinia, April12-16, 2007.

• FP6 coordinating action 'PEACH' workshop, Barcelona, 23 June 2006.

• Gatsby Institute, UCL, London, 14 June 2006.

• Invited participant, New Ideas in Hearing, CNRS, Paris, 12/13 May 2006.

• Public lecture, Making Sense of Sounds, Univ. of Plymouth, 10 May 2006.

• MRC Institute of Hearing, Nottingham, 14 March 2006.

• Workshop on Auditory Scene Analysis, 'Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE)2006' (March 9-10) Utah, USA

• Dept of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, November 2005.
  

• Computational Neuroscience Group, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, January 2004.

• MRC Centre for the Neural Basis of Hearing, University of Cambridge, May 2002.

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• RCUK Foresight Cognitive Systems Project InterAction? Conference, HP Conference Centre Bristol, 2003

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• 'Zangwill Club' Nov 2007

• University of Cambridge August 2007

• Inst. f. Adaptive & Neural Comp., University of Edinburgh May/June 2007

• International Symposium 'Dopamine – 50 Years' in Gothenburg, Sweden Oct. 2006

• Intl. Workshop 'Computational Neuropsychiatry', Munich, Germany July 2006

• Workshop 'Cortical Microcircuitry', CNS 2006 Edinburgh July 2006

• Intl. Workshop on ‘Information Theory, Neurobiology and Cognition’ at MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig May 2006

• Intl. Workshop 'Rhythms in the Brain', Bangor, UK May 2006

• University of Bangor (Dept. of Psychology), UK May 2006

• Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, Germany March 2006

• Participant: UK-German Frontiers of Science Symposium (invited by Royal Society) March 2006

• Gatsby Comp. Neuroscience Unit, University College London January 2006

• Bioquant, University of Heidelberg, Germany Oct. 2005

• Invited discussant, Intl. Workshop 'Systems Biology and Psychiatry', Munich, Germany June 2005

• University of Amsterdam (Dept. of Animal Physiology & Cognitive Neuroscience), Netherlands June 2004

• Participant: American-German Frontiers of Science Symposium (invited by Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation) May 2004

• 2nd EURESCO conference on the neural representation of the memory trace, Strasbourg, France April 2004

• University of Stirling, UK July 2003

• Workshop on computational models of working memory in association with the Computational Neuroscience Meeting 2003 in Alicante, Spain April 2003

• University of Münster, Germany June 2002

• Univ. of Düsseldorf (Neurobiologie), Germany May 2002

• MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany April 2002

• Free University of Berlin (Dept. of Neurobiology), Germany July 2001

• Technical University of Berlin (Dept. of Informatics), Germany Oct. 2000

• Banbury Meeting at Cold Spring Harbour on neural mechanisms of persistent activity

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• "What is seeing?" Developing the Senses, Sense, Plymouth 2007.

• "Eye movements in paediatric movement disorders" Paediatric movement disorders course. Orphan Europe Academy & Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Barcelona, 2007

• "New drug therapies for inherited metabolic diseases: ethical and practical issues for orphan disease trial" International Society for Nurses in Genetics, Bristol, 2007

• "Recording horizontal eye movements from infants and non-instructable children" Bristol Eye Hospital, Bristol, 2007

• "Understanding and assessing oculomotor function in children with brain injury" Cerebral visual impairment, Cerebra CPD event. Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, 2007

• "Adaptive plasticity in human visuomotor development: from the two-legged goat to eye movements" Psychology Seminar Series, University of Plymouth, 2007

• "Visuomotor assessment in the non-instructable child" Cerebra 4th annual research presentation, Leeds, 2006

• Understanding congenital nystagmus; a research workshop (2006) Nystagmus Network AGM, Birmingham, 2006

• "Proportional noise in human movement control" Department of Sports and Exercise Science, University of Birmingham, 2006

• "Optimality and movement I: a biological perspective" & "Optimality and movement II: a mathematical perspective" Journée Maths et Cerveau, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Paris, 2006

• "Saccadic eye movements in neurometabolic disease" Actelion Headquarters, Basel, Switzerland, 2006

• "Eye movements in neuronopathic Gaucher disease: from diagnosis to clinical trials". Neuro-Otology Dept., National Hospital, Queens Square, London, 2005

• "Update on audiology" Joint presentation with Pauline Campbell. 3rd Workshop on Dancing Eye Syndrome Clinical and Basic Science, Abingdon, 2005

• "Eye movements in neurologically impaired children" Cerebra Research Day, Llannelli, Wales 2005

• "A developmental model of infantile nystagmus" Nystagmus Workshop, Abingdon, 2005

• "Distal models and the inverse problem of optimality" Maths and Brain Summer School, Institut de Mathématiques de Jussieu, Paris, 2005

• "Eye movements in metabolic children" Department of Neurology, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, 2005

• "Living with nystagmus: stage 2" Nystagmus Network 21th AGM, London, 2005

• "Delayed Visual Maturation" Southwest Orthoptics Association, Plymouth, 2005.

• "Congenital nystagmus" Department Optometry and Visual Sciences, Cardiff, 2005.

• "The role of eye movements in neuronopathic Gaucher disease" Neuronopathic Gaucher disease European family conference, Leicester, UK, 2004.

• "Eye Movement Research" neuroscience Day. Penninsula Medical School, BuckFast?, UK, 2004

• "Oculomotor and audiological measures for neurometabolic diseases" 3rd International Conference: Prospects in the Treatment of Rare Diseases. Trieste, Italy, 2004

• "Living with nystagmus" with Faith Budge Nystagmus Network 20th AGM, London, 2004

• "Eye movement disorders due to brainstem abnormalities IN neuronopathic Gaucher disease" Exeter Neuroscience Consortium, Exeter, UK, 2004

• "Nystagmus" RNIB London, 2004

• "Eye movements and optimality" British Ocular Motor Group, Manchester, 2004

• "Dancing eyes and ears?" with Pauline Campbell; Dancing Eye Support Group, AGM, London, 2003

• "Saccade initiation failure (congenital ocular motor apraxia)" Clinical Neuroscience Seminar, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth, 2003

• "Eye movement recording" South West Regional Neuro-Ophthalmological Symposium, Plymouth, 2003

• "Paediatric visual and visuomotor problems 1 &2 ". MSc & Diploma in Audiology, Institute of Laryngology and Otology, London, 2003

• "Measuring eye movements" 2nd workshop on Dancing Eyes Syndrome clinical and basic science, Abingdon, 2003

• "Understanding movement control in health and illness" Inaugural Professorial Lecture, University of Plymouth 2002

• "Congenital nystagmus as an adaptive process" School of Optometry and Neuroscience, UMIST, Manchester, 2002

• "Evidence for optimality in motor control from the Fourier domain" Biocomp2002, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, 2002

• "A model of congenital nystagmus: the Why versus the How". Cardiff School of Optometry, Cardiff, 2002

• "Proportional noise in human behaviour" Plymouth Institute of Neuroscience, Plymouth, 2002

• "Early detection of neurological (oculomotor and audiological) signs of Type 3 Gaucher disease" Global expert meeting on lysosomal diseases, Barcelona, 2001

• "Eye movement recording" MSc in Audiological Medicine. Institute of Child Health. Londo, 2001

• 1) "Eye movements" 2) "Video based tutorial"; 3) "Nystagmus" Certificate course in binocular vision, Department of Optometry, City University, London, 2001

• "Evidence for motor optimality" World Congress Neuroinformatics, Vienna, 2001

• "Pitfalls in paediatric nystagmus" 8 Tagung der Bielschowsky-Gesellschaft für Schielforschung, Regensburg, Germany, 2001

• "Optimal behaviour: could the brain have evolved any other way ?" Psychology Dept., Plymouth University, 2001

• "Saccade initiation failure" South West Ophthalmology Club, Totnes, 2001

• "A new hypothesis for neurotoxicity in Gaucher disease" Metabolic meeting, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, 2001

• "Ocular motor problems in Dancing Eye Syndrome" Dancing Eyes Syndrome Workshop, Abingdon, UK, 2001

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• "Language Models based on Hebbian Cell Assemblies", School of Computing Science, Middlesex University, 20 July 2007.

• "Spike Train Metrics for Reconstructing Stimulus Space Topology from Multiple Neurons" Department of Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm, Germany, 24. May 2007.

• "Some Properties of Some Metrics", Spike Train Metric Workshop, University of Plymouth, 8-9 Jan 2007.

• "Language models based on Hebbian cell assemblies". Symposium 18: "Compositionality: Neuronal Basis of Complex Behavior". 7th Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society, Goettingen, 29.3 - 1.4 2007.

• "Language models based on Hebbian cell assemblies". Workshop on "Dynamical Analysis of Information Processing in the Brain", University of Ulm, 8-11 Oct 2006.

• "Operational Cell Assemblies". Workshop on "Information Theory, Neurobiology and Cognition", Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig 5-11 July 2006.

• "Hilbert-type Spike Metrics". UK Spike Train Analysis Workshop, Newcastle University, UK, 28. Aug - 8. Sept. 2006.

• "Operational Cell Assemblies". Workshop on "Cortical Microcircuits". 15th Annual Computational Neuroscience Conference, Edinburgh, 16-20 July 2006.

• "Nonlinear Neural Field Models for Spatio-temporal Receptive Fields". Workshop on "Continuous Attractor Neural Networks". 15th Annual Computational Neuroscience Conference, Edinburgh, 16-20 July 2006.

• "Maximisation of Stochastic Interaction and Complexity in Neural Systems", Facultad de Lenguas Extranjeras, Universidad de la Habana, Cuba, March 2006.

• "Maximisation of stochastic Interaction and Complexity in Neural Systems", Cuban Neuroscience Center, La Habana, Cuba, March 2006.

• "Computational Neuroscience, Kognition, und Sprache". Section "Kognitive Linguistik". 12th ALEG - Kongress, Capitolio, La Habana, Cuba, 13-17. March 2006

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