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The goal of the planned studies is to determine the significance of afferent and efferent motor processes in facial expressions that may impact evaluative judgments or responses induced by linguistic and pictorial representations of facial…
To compare the effect of IT dexamethasone versus IT gentamicin on number and severity vertigo attacks.To compare the effects of IT dexamethasone with IT gentamicin on hearing function, functional level scale and aural fullness.
The primary goal of our study is to map and characterize anatomically and functionally the subcortical structures of the auditory pathway in patients with tinnitus and compare them to controls. To this end, we will use 7 T MRI scanner and measure…
The objective of this study is to examine the vestibular system in three dimensions. To achieve this goal three experiments are performed. The EyeSeeCam video-oculography is validated with the scleral search coils (international golden standard).…
Primary Objective: in what way, if any, do children with cochlear implants process prosody differently from each other and from normally hearing children?Secondary Objective(s): 1) is there a processing difference between linguistic and emotional…
The current study employs functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate the relation between peripheral hearing loss, tinnitus and cortical reorganization. In particular, it aims to map the topographic representation of sound frequency…
The main objective of this study is to test the feasibility of using DTI in combination with tractography to visualize differences between a degenerated and normal auditory nerve.
The primary objective of the study is to identify the bacterial flora on the abutment in a phylum/species classification. The secondary objectives are to assess the relationships between the commensal skin flora and the flora on the abutment and to…
The main goal of the study is to characterize the perception of reflexives and pronouns in normally developing normal-hearing, hearing-impaired and cochlear implanted children. The proposed project consists of a longitudinal study spreading over 5…
The main goal of the study is to characterize the perception of vocal characteristics through a cochlear implant. It will span a number of aspects: psychophysical characterisation, its relation to speaker discrimination, its relation to single voice…
The primary goal of the present study is to evaluate and validate a new Dutch matrix test. The goal is to develop a new speech recognition test, the Matrix test, that can be used for clinical audiology and audiological research, both in the…
Our first objective is two-fold; part of it is to evaluate the suitability of the dual task paradigm as a measure for listening effort in a series of simulation experiments. We will compare a linguistic and a non linguistic secondary task in this…
The primary objective is to investigate the influence of auditory and non-auditory factors on speech recognition abilities in quiet and in noise in CI users. For this reason we will study the effects of linguistic skills and working memory capacity…
The study objectives are to measure the impact of swimming in chlorinated water on the upper and lower airways of children with and without *doctors diagnosed asthma* by means of the following methods: 1.Tympanometry after otoscopy 2.Airway…
The objective of the study is to determine if a 3D motion platform (to measure vestibular function) and accelerometry and a insole pressure system (to measure balance) can be used in future research on patients with vestibular lesions. For this, we…
Most patients with tinnitus also have a hearing loss. The primary goal of this study is to investigate whether in patients with hearing loss AND tinnitus, the neural response of the brain is enlarged compared to hearing-impaired patients without…
First, to measure the influence of the speech coding strategy on frequency discrimination in a free field test. Second, to quantify the influence of the number of harmonics on frequency discrimination in cochlear implant users and in normally…
To gain information about the characteristics of the oVEMP-response in patients with otosclerosis and to objectify the complaints of dizziness pre- and postoperatively through a dizziness questionnaire.
Social and emotional functioning of hearing impaired children, in the agegroup between 9 and 15 years old.
The present study intends to perform functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in order to obtain further insight in effects of selective attention on sensory processing. This study aims to compare subjects with normal hearing to patients that…