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From January 2011, Adriana Zekveld (PhD) performs the 4-year personal VENI project: “The eye as measure of listening effort”. This study is performed at the department of ENT/Audiology and EMGO Institute at the VU University medical centre in Amsterdam. The study focuses on the validation of pupillometric research to study processing load during listening.
Additionally, Adriana is part-time employed by the Linnaeus Centre HEAD. HEAD stands for HEaring And Deafness; Linnaeus Centre HEAD is part of the Swedish Institute for Disability Research, which builds on a collaboration between the Swedish universities of Linköping and Örebro. For this “Mismatch in the Brain” study, she performs both behavioral and fMRI research on the influence of speech-to-noise ratio and informative cues on speech intelligibility and brain activation.
This study is part of a collaboration between HEAD and the department of ENT/Audiology & the EMGO Institue at the VU University medical centre, Amsterdam.
Research focus (see also publications):
- Physiological measures of cognitive processing during listening
- Speech comprehension & cognition
- Cognitive hearing science
- Listening effort (Heinsius Houbolt Fonds)
- Evaluation of the benefit obtained from Automatic Speech Recognition systems during speech comprehension (EC HearCom project)