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Speaker: Dr. Florian Klein, TU Ilmenau, Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology Ilmenau
Time: Friday, May 09, 2025, 3:00 p.m.
Place: TU Ilmenau, Faradaybau (new building) , Faraday lecture hall, access and parking lot from Prof.-Schmidt-Straße
Admission: 5 Euro
Our hearing is much more than a sensor that assigns a clear value and "meaning" to every change in sound pressure: Hearing is a complex and still not fully understood system that relies heavily on pattern recognition, sensory interactions and a comparison with our own expectations.
In his lecture at the TU Ilmenau Citizens’ Campus , Dr. Florian Klein from the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology will give an overview of the mechanisms of hearing. Using listening examples and everyday situations, the scientist will answer questions that he has found answers to in over 15 years of research into human auditory perception: Why do we spend a lifetime learning to hear? How does directional hearing work? What is the "cocktail party effect"- And what does all this actually have to do with technology? In his dissertation, Dr.-Ing. Florian Klein researched the learning ability of our hearing and now works at the TU Ilmenau and the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology - at the interface between hearing perception and the development of future audio technologies.
Hearing and understanding: How our brain gives meaning to sound
