Congratulations to Jonas Vanthornhout, our most recent PhD!

Dr. Vanthornhout successfully defended his thesis "Towards an objective and automatic measure of speech understanding", concluding an impressive PhD project. ExpORL greatly appreciates his hard work and we are glad to now have him on the team as a post-doc. Well done!

SPIN workshop 2020

SPIN workshop 2020

Last week, the 12th Speech in Noise Workshop took place in Toulouse, France. Three of our lab members joined the conference. Sara Magits, who won the Colin Cherry award at the previous SPIN workshop, was invited for a talk. Eline Verschueren and Elien Van den Borre both presented a poster. They had a great time, both at the conference and exploring the city.

Seminar Hugo Weissbart - 14 January 2020

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Invitation Research Seminar ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences Cortical tracking of linguistic features in continuous EEG. Hugo Weissbart When? Tuesday, 14 January 2020, 13:00 Where? Seminar room ALO 06.100 KU Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg, building O&N ALO Herestraat 49 B-3000 Leuven Please reply to this email if you are planning to attend the presentation. Copyright KU Leuven

Seminar Jonathan Z. Simon - 17 January 2020

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Invitation Research Seminar ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences Listening at the Cocktail Party: Cortical Processing of Attended and Ignored Speech, from Acoustics to Words. Jonathan Z. Simon University of Maryland When? Friday, 17 January 2020, 12:00 Where? Seminar room ALO 05.200 KU Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg, building O&N ALO Herestraat 49 B-3000 Leuven Please reply to this email if you are planning to attend the presentation. Copyright KU Leuven

Seminar Steven Bell - 17 January 2020

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Invitation Research Seminar ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences   Evoked responses to speech: Improving measurement, understanding limitations and exploring clinical applications. Steven Bell University of Southampton   When? Friday, 17 January 2020, 13:00 Where? Seminar room ALO 05.200 KU Leuven, Campus Gasthuisberg, building O&N ALO Herestraat 49 B-3000 Leuven   Please reply to this email if you are planning to attend the presentation.     Copyright KU Leuven

Congratulations Dr. Sam Denys

Another ExpORL member has successfully obtained a doctoral degree. During his Phd, Sam Denys developed, implemented and validated a hearing screening protocol based on speech perception in noise, which is now systematically used to screen the hearing of school-aged children in Belgium. Impressive work with lasting impact, congratulations!

Lien Decruy obtained her PhD, congratulations!

Congratulations to Lien Decruy for obtaining her PhD! Her dissertation was titled: "Neural tracking of the speech envelope: unraveling the effects of listening effort, age and hearing impairment." We would like to thank the jury members for their contributions: Prof. Verhaert and prof. McLaughlin of KU Leuven, prof. Anderson of University of Maryland and Dr. Millman from The University of Manchester. After an impressive defense, we celebrated with a nice reception and a beautiful performance of our own ExpORL band.