Nelleke Jansen will defend her PhD Thesis “In tune: Exploring the role of musical abilities in second-language prosodic processing and production”.
Co-supervised with Prof. Wander Lowie, Dr. Hanneke Loerts, and Dr. Ellie Harding.
Auditory seminar: Prof. Lina Reiss, 12 June 2025
Relative weighting of temporal and place cues for pitch, music, and spoken emotion perception with cochlear implants
Prof. Lina Reiss
Oregon Hearing Research Center, Oregon Health and Science University
Date: Thursday 12 June 2025
Time: 9:00-10:00
Location: Dormitorium W4.002 (4th floor, UMCG main building)
Link: https://meet.google.com/dgo-kdvr-vun
For information and to sign up for the email list, please contact drs. Karen Castaño González, k.castano.gonzalez@umcg.nl
Auditory seminar: Prof. Toshio Irino, 10 June 2025
Effects of hearing loss on speech emotion discrimination in older adults – Experiments using a hearing loss simulator, WHIS
Prof. Toshio Irino
Wakayama University
Date: Tuesday 10 June 2025
Time: 13:30-14:30
Location: Traversezaal, UMCG
Link: https://meet.google.com/dgo-kdvr-vun
For information and to sign up for the email list, please contact drs. Karen Castaño González, k.castano.gonzalez@umcg.nl
Auditory seminar: Dr. Defne Abur, 3 April 2025
Auditory-motor integration in typical and disordered speech
Dr. Defne Abur
University of Groningen
Date: Thursday 3 April 2025
Time: 09:00-10:00
Location: W4.002 (Dormitorium), UMCG
Link: https://meet.google.com/dgo-kdvr-vun
For information and to sign up for the email list, please contact drs. Karen Castaño González, k.castano.gonzalez@umcg.nl
19 PhD positions in the VoCS Doctoral Network (application deadline 16 March 2025)
Call for applicants
The Voice Communication Sciences (VoCS) Training Network is offering 19 doctoral positions – a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience in research while contributing to innovative projects in the Voice Sciences field.
VoCS is a 4-year project funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Framework program under the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. This international consortium brings together 22 academic and non-academic partners across 12 countries to shape the future of cognitive neuroscience, acoustics, phonetics, and computing science.
Applications are open from 1 February until 16 March 2025
Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed in April 2025
For details about the positions and how to apply, visit the project website: https://www.vocs.eu.com/
Auditory seminar: Dr. Paul Avan, 13 February 2025
Pressure homeostasis in the membranous labyrinth: Old issues and new models
Dr. Paul Avan
University of Clermont Auvergne, France
Co-author: Idir Djennaoui
University Hospital, Strasbourg, France
Date: Thursday 13 February 2025
Time: 09:00-10:00
Location: W4.002 (Dormitorium), UMCG
Link: https://meet.google.com/stn-wspk-idh
For information and to sign up for the email list, please contact drs. Karen Castaño González, k.castano.gonzalez@umcg.nl
Auditory seminar on robots and audiology, 20 November 2024
An auditory seminar on robots and audiology, with a fantastic line-up of speakers: Debi Vickers, Praminda Caleb-Solly, Fokie Cnossen, and Luke Meyer!
Human-centered robotics
Fokie Cnossen, PhD
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Spatial hearing training using virtual reality games for young bilateral cochlear implant users: The BEARS approach
Deborah Vickers, PhD
Cambridge University
Sensing for change: The opportunities and challenges for embodied AI to realise safe and adaptive assistive robots
Praminda Caleb-Solley, PhD
University of Nottingham
Investigating the feasibility of a NAO robot in audiology
ir. Luke Meyer
Universitair Medisch Centrum Groningen
Date: Wednesday 20 November 2024
Time: 13:30-15:30
Location: W4.002 Onderwijscentrum, UMCG
Link: https://meet.google.com/grg-cijg-fuj
For information and to sign up for the e-mail list please contact drs. Karen Castano, k.castano.gonzalez@umcg.nl
Auditory seminar: Francesco Ganis, 18 June 2024
Enhancing musical experiences for children with diverse hearing abilities using vibrotactile feedback and interactive training tools
Francesco Ganis
Aalborg University
Date: Tuesday 18 June 2024
Time: 14:00-15:00
Location: P3.270, UMCG
Link: https://meet.google.com/dhq-rwnr-bge
For information and to sign up for the email list please contact drs. Karen Castaño González, k.castano.gonzalez@umcg.nl
Auditory seminar: Dr. Sanne Moorman, 11 July 2024
A birdsong perspective on neural and behavioral mechanisms for auditory-vocal processing
Dr. Sanne Moorman
Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences Faculty of Science and Engineering
University of Groningen
Date: Thursday, 11 July 2024
Time: 9:00-10:00
Location: Dormitorium W4.002, UMCG
For information and to sign up for the e-mail list please contact drs. Karen Castaño González, k.castano.gonzalez@umcg.nl
Auditory seminar: Dr. Laurel Carney, 11 April 2024
From the Ear to the Brain and Back: Rethinking the Neural Code for Sound
Dr. Laurel Carney
Marylou Ingram Professor in Biomedical Engineering
Departments of Biomedical Engineering,
Neuroscience, Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY, USA
Date: Thursday 11 April 2024
Time: 9:00-10:00
Location: W4.002 (Dormitorium), UMCG
Link: Teams meeting link
For information and to sign up for the email list please contact drs. Karen Castaño González, k.castano.gonzalez@umcg.nl