Orient students toward the translational research in the Hearing Sciences; to provide examples of how scientists incorporate applied/translational aspects into their research; to provide training in research development with a translational perspective. Classes will consist of presentations by scientists in the field, followed by discussion of reading and presentations by students. Topics include acoustic categories in auditory cortex, cortical plasticity, high order cortex EEG, speech perception; neural coding of speech in the brain, stem, auditory perception and psychophysics, speech processing, aging & auditory processing, cochlear implants and binaural processing, language acquisition, and other auditory prostheses.