Seminar Benjamine Dieudonné - 14 December 2017

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Invitation Holy Hour ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences   Towards a comfortable cocktail party for bimodal listeners Benjamin Dieudonné Research Seminar in framework of doctoral education When? Thursday, 14 December 2017, 17:00-18:00 Abstract An increasingly common solution to severe hearing loss is bimodal stimulation: a cochlear implant in one ear and a hearing aid in the other. Although more and more companies are offering so-called bimodal solutions, the two devices are not designed to work together. This leads to poor transmission of binaural cues, resulting in major difficulties with sound localization and speech understanding in noisy environments. We will present the difficulties that bimodal listeners experience due to poor perception of binaural cues, and suggest some possible solutions to overcome these difficulties. One novel sound processing strategy that we recently developed, head shadow enhancement, did yield some promising results. Where? Seminar room 04.226 (HP1) 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 Thanh Vân Phan - 16 November 2017

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Invitation Holy Hour ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences   Structural connectivity analysis algorithms for young children's brain Thanh Vân Phan Research Seminar in framework of doctoral education When? Thursday, 16 November 2017, 14:00-15:00 Abstract In the research field of developmental neuroscience, an increasing number of studies investigates early childhood as this is the period when drastic structural changes occur in the brain. With the advent of child-friendly scanning protocols, studies based on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) have started to increase, with the advantage of providing in vivo and non-invasive high-resolution images of the brain. However, it was demonstrated that applying standard MRI software tools on young children data provides inaccurate and biased results, which can lead to erroneous interpretation in the analysis. The aim of this project is to develop and validate a tool for the structural connectivity analysis of young children’s brain. Improved modelling of brain connectivity attempts to better represent the links between brain structures, with accurate segmentation of anatomical brain regions and white matter connections representation. To do so, processing methods based on anatomical and diffusion MRI are adjusted to the young children’s brain. IOptimal pre-processing such as non-linear registration and artefact correction are applied to deal with issue inherent to pediatric data (head motion and anatomical disparity). Age-specific atlases are used (or constructed, if not available) in order to summarise the brain anatomy specific to each age group. Multi-atlas based methods are used in order to improve the segmentation accuracy of multiple labelling of brain sub-regions. Finally, longitudinal design is also included so changes in both micro- and macrostructure can be measured during brain development. Studies are conducted to evaluate the impact of these adapted processing methods applied for brain structural connectivity analysis in young children’s brain in typical and atypical development.​  Where? Seminar room 04.227 (HP2) 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 James O'Sullivan - 21 December 2017

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Invitation Holy Hour ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences   Auditory Attention Decoding: Insights from Invasive Electrocorticography  James O'Sullivan When? Thursday, 21 December 2017, 13:00h Where? Seminar room HP1 (04.226) 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 Dr. Hamish Innes-Brown - 7 November 2017

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Invitation Holy Hour ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences   Optical imaging for hearing research: possibilities and possible pitfalls  Dr. Hamish Innes-Brown Bionics Institute, Melbourne, Australia Abstract Functional near-infrared spectroscopy is a brain imaging technique that holds great promise for hearing research. It measures regionally-specific changes in the concentrations of oxygenated and deoxygenated haemoglobin in the superficial layers of cortex that are due to neural activity. Importantly for hearing research, it is non-invasive, silent, can be used in a variety of seating positions, and can be used with implanted devices such as cochlear implants. In this talk I will describe our first few years using this technology, some of the problems we have come across, and the potential we see for future uses. When? Tuesday, 7 November 2017, 13:00h Where? Auditorium Pentalfa (04.543) O&N I - KU Leuven Herestraat 49 B-3000 Leuven Please reply to this email if you are planning to attend the presentation.     Copyright KU Leuven