The International Symposium on Hearing (ISH) is held typically every three years in Europe since 1969. This interdisciplinary meeting brings together established researchers as well as young talents specializing in physiology, psychophysics, cognition, and modeling of hearing. Its aim is to stimulate discussion on the mechanisms underlying auditory perception and provides the basis for a better understanding of auditory function. Modelling approaches complement the experimental studies and serve as a framework for interpreting the results and developing new experimental paradigms. The topics cover fundamental concepts of neural coding and signal processing at various levels along the auditory pathway, consequences for auditory perception in various acoustic environments, as well as implications for behavioral and cognitive aspects of auditory perception, and compensation strategies for people with hearing impairment. The 2025 meeting pursues its predecessors, with emphasis on advances in auditory physiology, perception, and cognition.

ISH is a small collegial meeting typically held in a cloistered setting. The program is limited to 50-60 podium presentations of about 20 min. There are no parallel sessions, and participants are expected to attend the majority of the sessions throughout the week. Authors of accepted contributions will be encouraged to submit a full paper to an ISH2025 Special Issue, which will be published in the peer-review open-access journal Trends in Hearing. A limited number of poster presentations (without publication) will also be scheduled.

The total number of participants, including podium speakers, is limited to about 110. Presentations will be selected by the organizing committee on the basis of scientific excellence and topic. Due to the restricted number of participants, we can only accommodate a limited number of authors for each accepted paper to attend the conference.