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!
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PhD Defense, Nawal El Boghdady, 24 June 2019, 11:00: “On the color of voices: The relationship between cochlear implant users’ voice cue perception and speech intelligibility in cocktail-party scenarios”
Nawal El Boghdady will defend her thesis: “On the color of voices: The relationship between cochlear implant users’ voice cue perception and speech intelligibility in cocktail-party scenarios” on 24 June 2019, 11:00.
The ceremony will take place at the Aula of the RUG Academy Building.
There will be a celebration seminar on 25 June, “Revisiting voice and speech perception in cochlear implant users.” Detailed info is here.
Deniz elected to PPTC, Acoustical Society of America
Deniz is elected to be a member of the Technical Committee on Psychological and Physiological Acoustics, Acoustical Society of America. Her term will be 3 years, starting from 2020.
Marita wins BCN PhD Retreat, best presentation award!
Marita Everhardt, who is affiliated with our lab and doing her PhD work supervised by Wander Lowie and Tassos Sarampalis, has won the best presentation award at the BCN PhD Retreat. Congratulations!
Volkskrant article
A piece in Volkskrant where Deniz explains why one’s recorded voice sounds strange to themselves, and also a few lines about our new voice perception research.
Digital Futures: Hearing Futures at V&A, London
The team from 3D Tune-In, an H2020 project where Deniz is acting as an external reviewer, is organizing an interesting event at V&A (18 April). Everyone is invited!
link:
https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/VGaQ68GZ/digital-futures-hearing-futures-2018
Deniz is co-chairing CIAP 2019
Deniz will be co-chairing CIAP 2019 along with Karen Gordon. The initial program is currently put together, will be a very exciting meeting!
See the previous program here:
https://www.ciaphome.org/index.html
PhD position available: “Why does voice matter for speech perception?”
If you are a master student from a relevant field to our research interests (hearing and speech sciences, psychology, psycholinguistics, neuroscience, biomedical engineering, physics, or other related fields) and have an interest to work in a fun and exciting research group, read on!
We have a PhD position available, specifically on the topic of voice perception and its importance on speech perception. For further details and to send an application, see the link below:
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/248609
Travel grant for Nawal CIAP 2017
Nawal El Boghdady received a travel grant from CIAP 2017 organization. She will present our collaborative work with Waldo Nogueira and Florian Langner from Hannover Medical Center and co-funded by Advanced Bionics, “Improving speech perception in cocktail-party situations for cochlear implants.”
Sam van KNO
Sam van KNO, our NAO robot, joined the lab! Sam is making friends fast with everyone inside and outside the lab.