Deniz is invited to give a talk at the next Cochlear Science and Research Seminar (CSRS) on the topic of Bimodal Implantation in the Adult Population. The talk will cover our recent work on voice perception, especially with a focus on voice pitch perception and voice gender categorisation, with bimodal implant simulations.
The full program is here:
https://www.cochlearevents.com/education/webinar/ci-clinicians/csrs/csrs-bimodal-in-the-adult-population/
Proud to announce that our new project Audiolistic in partnerships with NSDSK and Pento is funded by ZonMw Programma Expertisefunctie Zintuiglijk Gehandicapten.
The official title our project is “Insight in the conditions to participate in daily life for young children with moderate hearing loss: Towards an acoustic friendly and high-quality linguistic environment”, and more details can be found at ZonMw project website.
Pınar Ertürk has been awarded Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher Grant. She was invited by Emerging Auditory Research Lab led by Dr. Julie Arenberg at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Harvard Medical School, for one academic year research visit starting from 8th Feb 2021.
Dr. Arenberg’s research focuses on improving speech perception abilities and listening experience of hearing impaired pediatrics and adults by using a translational approach. Pınar will be working as a visiting researcher of Dr. Arenberg’s Lab on the purpose of conducting her Phd thesis research about speech on speech perception of hearing impaired individuals.
Our BME master’s student, Luke Meyer, has received a a PhD Fellowship from GSMS Kolffs Insitute. He will continue his work with Sam the Robot as a PhD, supervised by Deniz and Laura.
Congratulations Luke!
2019 Guyot Prize Ceremony and Symposium will take place at UMCG on 29 October 2019. We have a wonderful program! It is open to everyone, but registration required.
The Guyot Prize is the oldest scientific prize offered by the University of Groningen, and it is awarded for outstanding achievements in auditory science and otology. This year it will be awarded to prof. Tobias Moser for his contribution to our understanding of the synapses in the inner ear and to the development of an optogenetic cochlear implant. We will celebrate this prize with a symposium, ‘Advances in Biological Otology’.
Jefta Saija successfully defended his thesis “Temporal integration and healthy ageing” on 14 October 2019, 14:30, at Academy Building, RUG.
We were lucky to have two new researchers, Thomas Koelewijn and Laura Rachman, who joined us for the VICI project. After earlier work on audiovisual perception and attention, Thomas has been very productive in listening effort in normal and impaired hearing, especially in utilizing pupillometry. Laura joined us with her expertise on processing of vocal emotion cues, and the computer transformation of these cues as a research tool.
Welcome Thomas and Laura to db SPL Lab!
Leanne Nagels’s paper (co-authors Petra Hendriks, Etienne Gaudrain, and Debi Vickers) is chosen as one of the best student/early-career researcher papers at VIHAR 2019! Congratulations Leanne!
