Seminar Annelies Devesse - Friday 29 September 2017

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Invitation Holy Hour ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences   Audio-Visual True-to-life Assessment of Auditory Rehabilitation Annelies Devesse Research Seminar in framework of doctoral education When? Friday, 29 September 2017, 13:00h Where? Seminar room HP4 04.230 (4th floor) O&N II - KU Leuven Herestraat 49 B-3000 Leuven Please reply to this email if you are planning to attend the presentation.     Copyright KU Leuven

Seminar Ben Somers - Thursday 28 September 2017

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Invitation Holy Hour ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences   Neural entrainment to the speech envelope in cochlear implant users Ben Somers Research Seminar in framework of doctoral education Abstract The temporal envelope of speech is encoded in the oscillating patterns of the listener’s brain. Recent studies with normal hearing participants have shown that this neural representation of the envelope can be decoded from EEG measurements, and that it is related to speech intelligibility. Obtaining a measure for neural entrainment to the speech envelope in response to electrical stimulation with a cochlear implant poses additional challenges, as the electrical artifacts are continuously present and obscure the EEG. In the presented study, the successful decoding of the speech envelope from EEG measured in cochlear implant users is demonstrated for the first time. When? Thursday, 28 September 2017, 13:00h Where? Seminar Room HP 8 (05.210) O&N II - KU Leuven Herestraat 49 B-3000 Leuven Please reply to this email if you are planning to attend the presentation.     Copyright KU Leuven

Seminar Lien Decruy - Monday 25 September 2017

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Invitation Holy Hour ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences   Decoding speech understanding from EEG in a normal hearing and hearing impaired population across the lifespan​ Lien Decruy Research Seminar in framework of doctoral education Abstract Recently, studies have shown that the envelope of running speech can be decoded from the brain. As the envelope is a primary cue for speech understanding, measures of neural entrainment of the speech envelope can offer complementary information to behavioural speech audiometry. If we want to apply this method in the clinic, we have to validate our method. Therefore, we investigated the influence of ageing and hearing loss on neural entrainment. We recorded the EEG in normal hearing and hearing impaired subjects of different age groups (18-35 years; 45-85 years) while presenting standardized speech materials and audiobooks. When? Monday, 25 September 2017, 14:00h Where? Seminar Room HP 2 (04.227) O&N II - KU Leuven Herestraat 49 B-3000 Leuven Please reply to this email if you are planning to attend the presentation.     Copyright KU Leuven