What can we expect of normally-developing children implanted at a young age with respect to their auditory, linguistic and cognitive skills?

A van Wieringen, J Wouters - Hearing Research, 2015 - Elsevier
As a result of neonatal hearing screening and subsequent early cochlear implantation (CI)
profoundly deaf children have access to important information to process auditory signals …

Speech intelligibility predicted from neural entrainment of the speech envelope

J Vanthornhout, L Decruy, J Wouters, JZ Simon… - Journal of the …, 2018 - Springer
Speech intelligibility is currently measured by scoring how well a person can identify a
speech signal. The results of such behavioral measures reflect neural processing of the …

Neural markers of speech comprehension: measuring EEG tracking of linguistic speech representations, controlling the speech acoustics

M Gillis, J Vanthornhout, JZ Simon… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
When listening to speech, our brain responses time lock to acoustic events in the stimulus.
Recent studies have also reported that cortical responses track linguistic representations of …

Expressive vocabulary, morphology, syntax and narrative skills in profoundly deaf children after early cochlear implantation

T Boons, L De Raeve, M Langereis, L Peeraer… - Research in …, 2013 - Elsevier
Practical experience and research reveal generic spoken language benefits after cochlear
implantation. However, systematic research on specific language domains and error …

Effectiveness of auditory training in experienced hearing-aid users, and an exploration of their health-related quality of life and coping strategies

M Van Wilderode, E Vermaete, T Francart… - Trends in …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Hearing aids (HA) are a fundamental component in restoring auditory function; however,
they cannot completely alleviate all problems encountered by adults with hearing …

[HTML][HTML] Acoustic and phonemic processing are impaired in individuals with aphasia

J Kries, P De Clercq, R Lemmens, T Francart… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Acoustic and phonemic processing are understudied in aphasia, a language disorder that
can affect different levels and modalities of language processing. For successful speech …

[HTML][HTML] EEG-based detection of the locus of auditory attention with convolutional neural networks

S Vandecappelle, L Deckers, N Das, AH Ansari… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
In a multi-speaker scenario, the human auditory system is able to attend to one particular
speaker of interest and ignore the others. It has been demonstrated that it is possible to use …

[HTML][HTML] Decoding of the speech envelope from EEG using the VLAAI deep neural network

B Accou, J Vanthornhout, HV hamme, T Francart - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
To investigate the processing of speech in the brain, commonly simple linear models are
used to establish a relationship between brain signals and speech features. However, these …

Evidence for enhanced neural tracking of the speech envelope underlying age-related speech-in-noise difficulties

L Decruy, J Vanthornhout… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
When we grow older, understanding speech in noise becomes more challenging. Research
has demonstrated the role of auditory temporal and cognitive deficits in these age-related …

Hearing impairment is associated with enhanced neural tracking of the speech envelope

L Decruy, J Vanthornhout, T Francart - Hearing Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Elevated hearing thresholds in hearing impaired adults are usually compensated by
providing amplification through a hearing aid. In spite of restoring hearing sensitivity …