Projects
Genetic and functional studies for GRHL2 and GRM7, two genes for Age-Related Hearing Impairment. University of Antwerp
Identification and characterisation of genes responsible for age-related hearing impairment. University of Antwerp
Neural tracking of the speech envelope: unraveling the effects of listening effort, age and hearing impairment KU Leuven
Partly due to the rapid pace of aging of the world population, it is expected that by 2050 more than 900 million people will experience hearing loss. Since adequate hearing is a prerequisite for daily life communication, hearing impairment increases the risk of social isolation and poorer physical functioning, which in turn negatively affects quality of life. Currently, hearing aids are the most used and well-known treatment for hearing ...
Digital Signal Processing Algorithms for Noise Reduction, Dynamic Range Compression, and Feedback Cancellation in Hearing Aids KU Leuven
Neural temporal processing in the aging auditory system: disentangling effects of aging and peripheral hearing loss KU Leuven
Good speech perception skills are important for communication and social integration. Many persons, however, suffer from impaired speech perception in everyday, noisy listening situations, which causes them to avoid or miss out on social events, thereby affecting their quality of life. There is general consensus that difficulties in speech perception result from hearing impairment, age, and cognitive problems. Nevertheless, it remains unclear ...
A longitudinal approach to phonetic enhancement in infant directed speech: normally hearing infants and hearing-impaired infants with a cochlear implant. University of Antwerp
Adapting cochlear implants and hearing aids to individual brains. KU Leuven
Current clinical practice requires active cooperation of the patient to individually fit a hearing device. The most important parameters for this fitting process are related to loudness. The aim of this PhD was to find neural correlates of loudness using 40-Hz auditory steady-state responses. These responses are auditory evoked potentials that can be measured fully objectively, non-invasively, and frequency-specifically in the ...
Interdisciplinary aspects of hearing: contributions of changes in temporal resolution and memory capacity early in life KU Leuven
Aging is hypothesized to affect peripheral and central auditory processing, as well as cognitive functioning. Independent contributions of age-related changes in these domains to communicational problems in older persons - and speech understanding difficulties in particular - are up until today unknown. In fact, age-related changes in the three domains seem profoundly intertwined.
The aim of this research project was to investigate how ...