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

ExpORL at CIAP 2017

The Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses (CIAP) 2017 took place in Granlibakken, California, USA from July 16 - 21.

ExpORL had a fantastic presence poster presentations by Anna Samsel, Hanne Deprez, Jana van Canneyt, Ben Somers, Federico Bolner, Benjamin Dieudonné, Tom Francart, and Astrid van Wieringen. Additionally, Maaike Van Eeckhoutte and Robin Gransier contributed with invited talks.

This conference was an excellent platform to present our work to the scientific community in our field in different ways. Furthermore, it allowed the discussion, sharing, and exchange of new ideas.

Cheers to the organizing committee and a big shout out to all the personnel of Granlibakken Tahoe resort for a fantastic conference!

Which Earplugs Do You Need for a Festival?

VTM NIEUWS made a fantastic piece together with our very own Maaike Van Eeckhoutte about protecting our ears with earplugs. This is specially important now with all the festivals, concerts, and events going around during the summer. Take good care of your ears!

You can see the piece right here. It is only available in Dutch, unfortunately.
(If the video won't play, you can see it in VTM Nieuws website right here).

Contact info:

•  Maaike Van Eeckhoutte

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ExpORL goes to Beach Festival

Last weekend, ExpORL representatives were present at the Ostend Beach Festival! They were kindly invited by De Tuut van Tegenwoordig to distribute free ear plugs to the general public in order to prevent hearing damage and tinnitus, which is (unfortunately) quite common in such venues with loud sounds and music.

We thank Sara, Tilde, Annelies, and Sam (from left to right in the photo) for their effort to help take care of our ears!

Contact info:

• Sara Magits
• Tilde Van Hirtum
• Annelies Devesse
• Sam Denys

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Maud Lobel wins the Research Student Abstract Competition

Last Thursday, April 20, Maud Lobel was the proud winner of the "Research Student Abstract Competition". Under the supervision of her promotors Lien Decruy and Tom Francart, Maud developed her work with the title "Effect van Listening effort op een objectieve maat voor spraakverstaan".

Congratulations to her and her supervisors! Fantastic job!

Photo credit: Lien Decruy

Contact:

• Lien Decruy
• Tom Francart

Special Olympics!

Yesterday, three of our very own ExpORL members volunteered for the Healthy Hearing program, which is part of the 2017 National Games of the Special Olympics Belgium (FB page). They made use of their expertise by screening tenths of participants.

If you are interested in volunteering for the next time, don't hesitate to contact the Special Olympics staff! Fantastic experience.

From left to right: Maaike Van Eeckhoutte, Dimitar Spirrov, and Annelies Devesse. 

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Maaike Van Eeckhoutte
Dimitar Spirrov

Annelies Devesse

ExpORL Kicks into 2017 at the SPIN Workshop

First of all, happy 2017 to all of our readers!

To begin this year with the right foot, ExpORL had an active participation at the 9th Speech in Noise (SPIN) Workshop, which took place in Oldenburg, Germany, between the 5th and 6th of January. The objective of this meeting is to "bring together young investigators and senior faculty from several European hearing-research groups to stimulate networking, discussion of research topics, and scientific collaboration in the field of speech and hearing research".

ExpORL had a fantastic participation in it. Astrid van Wieringen gave a talk regarding auditory processing and speech perception in the aging auditory system. Furthermore, Annelies Devesse and Lien Decruy presented their work in the poster sessions, both of which had positive feedback and interesting Q&A sessions.

Here it is to a great year full of science!

Photo credits: Annelies Devesse, Sam Denys, Tine Goossens

Contact Information

Annelies Devesse
Lien Decruy
Astrid van Wieringen