PROGRAMME FRAMEWORK

Hours	Sunday June 10	Monday June 11	Tuesday June 12	Wednesday June 13	Thursday June 14
8:00	14:00 Registration 18:00 *Welcome Reception*	Opening Ceremony & Hallowell Davis Lecture	Keynote Lecture I	Keynote Lecture II	Keynote Lecture III
9:00		Oral Session I	Oral Session VI	Oral Session VIII	Oral Session XII
10:30		Coffee Break sponsored by Pfizer	Coffee Break sponsored by Pliva	Coffee Break sponsored by Widex	Coffee Break sponsored by Eli Lilly
11:00		Oral Session II	Oral Session VII	Oral Session IX	Summary of IERASG 2007
12:30		Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
13:30		Poster Session I	*Excursion to Lipica* & *Postojna* *Caves* & *Dinner*	Poster Session II
15:15		Oral Session III		Oral Session X
17:00		Coffee Break		Coffee Break sponsored by Widex
17:30		Oral Session IV		Oral Session XI
18:35		Oral Session V
19:30		*Free Evening*
20:00		*Free Evening*		*Gala Dinner*

Scientific Programme

Hallowell Davis Lecture:

ARNOLD STARR: Sensory Cortical Changes Accompany Aging, Mild Cognitive Decline, and Dementia.

Keynote Lecture I.:

EINAR LAUKLI: Neonatal Hearing Screening. The choice of method in the first evaluations: TEOAE or AABR or something else?

Keynote Lecture II.:

NINA KRAUS: Brainstem encoding of sound; implications for language and music.

Keynote Lecture III.:

BERNHARD ROSS: Magnetoencephalography of auditory cortex.

Physiological and pathophysiological bases of auditory evoked potentials
Development of the auditory system as revealed by evoked responses.
Otoacoustic emissions: TEOAE, DPOAE, SOAE
Acoustically-and Electrically-Evoked Potentials (ECog, ABR, MLR, AEP, ASSR and ERP)
Surgical applications of evoked potentials
Newborn hearing screening and diagnostic evaluation
Mechanisms and site of lesions in auditory neuropathy
Applications in cognitive neuroscience
CNS plasticity as revealed by evoked potentials
Quantitative and Statistical Evaluation of Responses
Technology: Instrumentation and data processing