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The project has three main scientific objectives: (1) To investigate how speech processing with CIs affects listeners* mental representations at lexical and sub-lexical levels, as well as the flow of information between these levels; (2) To study…
The aim of the study is to strengthen the basis for a new application of pupillometry (i.e., the measurement of pupil dilation) within the field of Audiology. An innovative method to quantify listening effort (pupillometry) will be further developed…
The main objective is to identify the source of the *musician effect*, particularly for speech perception. The underlying processes involved and individual differences in different groups of participants in speech and music perception, both in quiet…
The main goal of the study is to optimize the perception of vocal characteristics through a cochlear implant. It will span a number of aspects: psychophysical characterisation, its relation to speaker discrimination, its relation to single voice…
The aim of the study is to test whether EMDR is effective to use as an intervention in order to reduce the severity and the burden of tinnitus and to determine whether the alleged effect of treatment is stable.
First, to measure the influence of the speech coding strategy on frequency discrimination in a free field test. Second, to quantify the influence of the number of harmonics on frequency discrimination in cochlear implant users and in normally…
The aim of the study is to establish the effectiveness of the developed LINE-1 noise suppression scheme for settings that are realistic under the technical possibilities of hearing aids and cochlear implants (CIs). The present study is a…
The proposed studies will investigate the effect of auditory attention on speech comprehension, its relation to listening effort, and the effect of hearing loss on these processes.
The primary objective of this study is to demonstrate that free field word recognition scores in quiet and noise with CI *ON* are significantly better than the best aided pre-implant scores in the ear to be implanted (contralateral ear plugged)…
The objective of this study is to identify the effect of musical experience and training on the perception of speech in quiet and in noise, as well as on perception of music-related stimuli, such as, pitch, timbre, emotion and melody recognition, in…
Objective: The main objective of this project is to unravel the mechanisms explaining the pupil dilation response during listening and hearing-related stress, and relate these factors to daily-life communication and psychosocial health. The…
In this project, we will investigate the effect of motivation, as manipulated by the level of (monetary) reward, on listening effort (as measured with the pupil dilation response) and performance, while listening to speech in different types of…
The aim of this study is to validate known, and identify novel allelic variants which may play a role in the risk of cisplatin-induced ototoxicity in a substantial international cohort of children diagnosed with cancer.
Social and emotional functioning of hearing impaired children, in the agegroup between 9 and 15 years old.
The primary objective of the present study is to increase our insight in the neural processing of speech in pre-lingually deaf CI patients regarding the prediction and explanation of postoperative differences in performance within this specific…
The primary objective of the present study is to increase our insight in the neural processing in pre-lingually deaf and implanted patients, regarding the prediction and explanation of postoperative differences in performance within this specific…
The goal of the HearClip project is to improve the hearing-aid fitting procedure. The development is tweaked by listening experiments.
Primary Objective: The present study is designed to answer the question whether the surgically altered OEAC leads to a perceived change in sound quality.Secondary Objective(s): To determine the differences in RECD and REUR induced by different OEAC…
The main goal of the study is to characterize the perception of vocal characteristics through a cochlear implant. It will span a number of aspects: psychophysical characterisation, its relation to speaker discrimination, its relation to single voice…
The current study employs functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the relation between peripheral hearing loss, tinnitus and cortical reorganization. In particular, it aims to map the topographic representation of sound frequency…