SPEAKERS
Introductary Keynotes: |
Larry E. Humes |
Stefanie E. Kuchinsky |
Theme 1 Hearing, cognition and wellbeing |
Theme 2 Communicative effort, fatigue, and ecological assessment |
Theme 3 Neural coding of auditory and multisensory signals |
Theme 4 Technologies in hearing science and translation |
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Keynote | Antje Heinrich | Lauren Hadley | Jonathan Peelle | Preben Kidmose |
Speakers | Kate McClannahan | Katie Neal | Brandon O'Hanlon | Isabelle Boisvert |
Boaz Ben-David | Susan Aliakbary Hosseinabadi | Emina Alickovic | Mattias Ekberg | |
Sven Mattys | Terrin Tamati | Lars Hausfeld | Jessica Pepper | |
Daniel Fogerty | Brian Kai Loong Man | Vanessa Frei | Joaquin T. Valderrama | |
Frederic Marmel | Christina Tobías Figuerola | Alexis Deighton MacIntyre | Mira Van Wilderode | |
Martha Shiell | Michaela Socher | Tobias Dorszewski | ||
Yue Zhang | Kelly Miles |
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Introductory Keynotes |
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Larry E. Humes Title: Auditory Wellness: What is it? Why is it important? How can it be self-managed? Biography: Larry E. Humes earned his undergraduate degree from Purdue University and a Master’s degree from Central Michigan University, before completing his PhD at Northwestern University. He then spent 8 years on the faculty at Vanderbilt University before joining the faculty at Indiana University, where he remains today as Distinguished Professor Emeritus. He has published over 175 articles in peer-reviewed journals and another 60 non-peer-reviewed articles, reviews, chapters, and books. He has presented or been a co-presenter on over 380 presentations throughout the world. Professor Humes has received the Honors of the Association and the Kawana Award for Lifetime Achievement in Publications from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the Jerger Career Award for Research in Audiology from the American Academy of Audiology and presented the 2020 Carhart Memorial Lecture at the annual meeting of the American Auditory Society. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and the International Collegium of Rehabilitative Audiology (ICRA). Professor Humes’ areas of research include noise-induced hearing loss, psychoacoustic abilities of hearing-impaired listeners, innovations in hearing aid fitting, hearing difficulties of the elderly, measuring and modeling hearing-aid outcomes, the development and evaluation of hearing-aid self-fitting methods, and, most recently, the measurement of auditory wellness in older adults. This most recent work is the focus of his presentation. |
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Stefanie E Kuchinsky Title: Assessing and altering listening effort with an eye towards clinical tools Biography: Stefanie E. Kuchinsky, Ph.D. is a Research Investigator in the Audiology and Speech Pathology Center at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD, USA. She holds faculty affiliations as a Research Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery at Uniformed Services University and as an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences at the University of Maryland. Her research examines how auditory, linguistic, and cognitive systems interact to support speech comprehension. She conducts behavioral, pupillometry, and neuroimaging studies that aim to assess and improve the functioning of these systems in a variety of listening conditions (e.g., speech in noise, vocoded speech) and for a variety of populations (e.g., older adults with and without hearing loss, service members and veterans with traumatic brain injuries, adult second-language learners). |
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Keynotes |
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Antje Heinrich Title: Listening strategies for speech-in-noise perception: The role of cognition depends on listener characteristics Biography: I am a Senior Lecturer in Audiology and Hearing Sciences at the Manchester Centre for Audiology and Deafness, University of Manchester, UK. My research focusses on how different groups of listeners process speech – from the initial auditory signal to the final understanding of and response to the message. My work contributes to a more theory-guided understanding of the importance of auditory and cognitive processes for speech perception. I also work to translate this improved theoretical understanding of listening into clinical practice by: developing targeted diagnostics of key parameters of listening; training key parameters of listening; and developing effective outcome measures of Audiological interventions. |
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Lauren V Hadley Title: Hearing in a social context: The impact of hearing loss on prediction and turn-taking Biography: Lauren completed her PhD in Psychology at the University of Edinburgh in 2016, addressing how people make predictions when playing music together in comparison to conversing together, and has since held postdocs focusing on communication strategies and cognitive control. In 2018 she moved to Hearing Sciences - Scottish Section, an outpost of the University of Nottingham, to study conversation behaviour. She currently holds a prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, in which she is investigating how hearing loss affects neurocognitive mechanisms underlying interaction, in order to find new ways to support people with hearing impairment. |
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Jonathan Peelle
Title: Using optical brain imaging to understand how the brain understands spoken language Dr. Peelle's research investigates the neuroscience of human communication, aging, and hearing using a combination of behavioral and brain imaging methods. His work unravels how it is that humans can understand a complex acoustic signal like speech, and how our brains adjust when there are acoustic challenges like background noise or hearing loss. Because of the central role of spoken language in our everyday lives, understanding contributors to communication success—and how these might be modified—has implications for social, mental, and physical well-being. |
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Preben Kidmose Title: Ear-Centered Sensing's Potential in Advancing Hearing Biography: |
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Speakers |
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Alexis Deighton MacIntyre Alexis started her research career as an assistant in the Music and Neuroscience Lab at Western University (Ontario, Canada) before moving to Cambridge University's Centre for Music and Science, where she studied for her MPhil funded by the Cambridge Trust Canada Scholarship. Alexis then went to London for her PhD in cognitive neuroscience at University College London fully supported by the GRS-ORS scholarships (now UCL Research Excellence Scholarship). She is currently based at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, where she is a member of Cambridge Hearing Group and the Hearing and Language Group as a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow. |
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Brandon O'Hanlon |
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Brian Kai Loong Man Brian Kai Loong Man is a Ph.D. student from Compute, Technical University of Denmark. He is also affiliated with Eriksholm Research Centre and Oticon A/S. His research focuses on how cognitive effort is influenced by congruent visual cues, and whether current measures of listening effort in unimodal speech literature are also reflected in multisensory speech using EEG and pupillometry. |
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Daniel Fogerty |
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Florine Bachmann |
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Frédéric Marmel
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Isabelle Boisvert Isabelle’s research focuses on the information and services available for people with hearing loss. She takes a pragmatic approach to communication, which typically integrates a flexible range of adaptations and technologies. She has published on clinical decision making, comparisons of intervention options, as well as physiological and patient-reported measures of listening effort and communication. Her recent studies highlight multidisciplinary opportunities and challenges prompted by hearing technology innovations. |
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Jessica Pepper |
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Joaquín T. Valderrama-Valenzuela Dr Valderrama earned his PhD from the University of Granada in 2014. He then moved to Sydney (Australia) to join the National Acoustic Laboratories (NAL), where he led various projects related to hearing neuroscience, listening effort, and cognition. Since January 2023, Dr Valderrama has been affiliated with the University of Granada in southern Spain, where he holds a prestigious ‘Ramón y Cajal’ fellowship at the Department of Signal Theory, Telematics and Communication. Additionally, he holds an honorary position at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia), and serves as a Council Member of the ‘International Evoked Response Audiometry Study Group’ (IERASG), a scientific society dedicated to fostering discussions about physiologic signals generated within the auditory system. His research interests include the search for biomarkers sensitive to early signs of hearing impairment, individual measures of listening effort and selective attention, and the development of signal-processing algorithms for recording auditory evoked potentials in flexible conditions. |
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Kate McClannahan |
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Lars Hausfeld |
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Louise Van Goylen As I am currently exploring the cognitive influence on hearing aid benefit, using a comprehensive auditory-cognitive test protocol, you will often find me within the audiological test cabin. Eager to embrace new challenges and broaden my intellectual horizons, I am anticipating an upcoming research stay at the University of Southern Denmark in September. There, I look forward to engaging with fellow experts, exchanging knowledge, and further refining my research. Beyond academia, I find fulfillment in creative expression and social engagement, recognizing the value of a balanced and multifaceted lifestyle. If you are interested in future outcomes of my research, feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn or via email at louise.vangoylen@ugent.be. |
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Martha Shiell |
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Michaela Socher |
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Mira Van Wilderode |
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Sven Mattys
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Terrin N. Tamati |
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Tobias Dorszewski |
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Vanessa Frei I completed my bachelor's and master's degree at the University of Zurich in the field of psychology with a focus on cognitive neuroscience. As part of my master's thesis, I investigated bodily and neural plasticity in the form of embodiment and which socio-cognitive attitudes are associated with altered bodily states and whether they can be influenced by them. I mainly worked with virtual body illusions and electroencephalography. Since June 2021, I have been a PhD student in the Computational Neuroscience of Speech & Hearing group at the Department of Computational Linguistics. My research currently focuses on the relationship between hearing sensitivity and cognitive capacity in the context of natural speech processing. My goal is to better understand contributing factors to successful comprehension of spoken language, and particularly the underlying dynamic between neural correlates of speech perception. Specifically, I am investigating whether natural and realistic immersion of audio-cognitive training supports neural, as well as subjectively experienced, speech processing in older adults with hearing impairment, and whether there is evidence of transfer to everyday life. It is particularly important to me that my work goes beyond fundamental research and potentially promotes applications in everyday life in the future (e.g., training games, mobile apps, etc.). |