In the news: Brain waves reflect speech understanding

We recently developed a method to measure whether someone can understand speech from decoding their brain waves, recorded using EEG. It was published in the Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology. We are happy to announce that it has now also been picked up by the main stream media:

• In Flanders
• The press release on the KU Leuven news website: Onze hersengolven tonen of we iets verstaan hebben
• Article in De Tijd: Leuvense onderzoekers meten of u de boodschap verstaat
• Article in De Morgen: Een gesproken boodschap goed verstaan? Deze methode achterhaalt het
• Article in Mijn Gezondheidsgids: Hersengolven laten zien of we iets verstaan hebben
• International
• Press release: Got the message? Your brainwaves will tell  
• EurekAlert: Got the message? Your brainwaves will tell  

The scientific article can be retrieved here.

The work behind the article was done mainly by PhD student Jonas Vanthornhout, under guidance of Prof. Tom Francart, with contributions from Lien Decruy, Jan Wouters and Jonathan Simon (University of Maryland).
This research was funded mainly by an ERC starting grant to Prof. Francart, a KU Leuven research project and an FWO-SB mandate to Jonas Vanthornhout.