Gordon Fraser Memorial Lecturer 2026

Speaker announced for BCIG Annual Meeting

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BCIG are pleased to announce that this years Graham Fraser Memorial Lecture will take place on Tuesday 21st April at BCIG Glasgow with Andrew Oxenham.   The title is Music perception and cochlear implants: challenges and opportunities.

 Andrew Oxenham obtained his PhD in 1995 from the   University of Cambridge. After postdoctoral training at   the Institute of Perception Research (IPO) in the   Netherlands and at Northeastern University, Boston,   he led a research group at MIT’s Research Lab of   Electronics from 1999 to 2006. He then joined the   University of Minnesota, where he is currently a   Distinguished McKnight University Professor and the   Director of the Center for Applied and Translational   Sensory Sciences (CATSS). An author on over 200 peer-  reviewed scientific publications in auditory and speech  perception and neuroscience, he is also the founding Editor in Chief of the journal Trends in Hearing. He received early-career awards from the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and the National Academy of Sciences, and was recently honored with the ASA’s Silver Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics. His research has received continuous grant support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 1998.