Purpose The purpose of this study was to conceptualize the subtle balancing act between
language input and prediction (cognitive priming of future input) to achieve understanding of …

The ability to discriminate and attend one specific sound source in a complex auditory
environment is a fundamental skill for efficient communication. Indeed, it allows us to follow …

People suffering from hearing impairment often have difficulties participating in
conversations in so-called cocktail party scenarios where multiple individuals are …

In a noisy conversation environment such as a dinner party, people often exhibit selective
auditory attention, or the ability to focus on a particular speaker while tuning out others …

How do we attend to relevant auditory information in complex naturalistic scenes? Much
research has focused on detecting which information is attended, without regarding …

Objective: Noise reduction algorithms in current hearing devices lack informationabout the
sound source a user attends to when multiple sources are present. To resolve this issue …

In a multi-speaker scenario, a hearing aid lacks information on which speaker the user
intends to attend, and therefore it often mistakenly treats the latter as noise while enhancing …

Everyday environments often contain distracting competing talkers and background noise,
requiring listeners to focus their attention on one acoustic source and reject others. During …

It has been demonstrated that from cortical recordings, it is possible to detect which speaker
a person is attending in a cocktail party scenario. The stimulus reconstruction approach …

To increase the ecological validity of outcomes from laboratory evaluations of hearing and
hearing devices, it is desirable to introduce more realistic outcome measures in the …