Subject: 2 PhD positions available on human speech perception, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands From: "Janse, Esther" <Esther.Janse@xxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:16:24 +0200 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>2 PhD positions available on human speech perception At the Center for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands -- Project 1: Individual differences in speech perception ability (3.5 years) As a PhD student you will participate in the project “What makes a good listener? Correlates of speech comprehension ability in young and older listeners”. This project is funded in the form of a VIDI Grant by the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research and directed by dr. Esther Janse. This project attempts to identify which individual abilities predict speech-processing ability across a range of speech materials and in different listening conditions. Your research will focus on investigating how several aspects of conversational speech (such as articulation clarity and dysfluencies) interact with individual listener abilities in speech recognition. For additional information, please go to: http://www.ru.nl/vacatures/details/details_vacature_0?recid=508971 Or send an e-mail to Esther.Janse@xxxxxxxx -- Project 2: Multiple Source Stream Integration in Human Listeners (3 years) As a PhD student you will participate in the FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training Network Investigating Speech Processing In Realistic Environments (INSPIRE). You will become a member of an international team of researchers whose aim is to gain a better understanding of how listeners recognize speech, even under non-ideal circumstances, focusing on alleviating the serious communication problems that arise, especially for older and hearing-impaired persons, when different combinations of ’adverse’ conditions affect the speech processing system. Your research will focus on questions such as: How do listeners integrate different information streams such as lexical and acoustic information in order to understand speech? What is the importance of these information streams for normal and hearing-impaired listeners, in noisy and in noise-free environments, and under cognitive load? For additional information, please go to: http://www.ru.nl/vacatures/details/details_vacature_0?recid=508848 Or send an e-mail to Odette.Scharenborg@xxxxxxxx