
This Free College Scholarships project intends to investigate how several aspects of conversational speech (such as articulation clarity and dysfluencies) interact with individual listener abilities in speech recognition.
Project information PhD student 2: Individual differences in perceptual learning. When presented with distorted speech or novel listening conditions (such as after initial hearing-aid fitting), listeners may improve over exposure. This Free College Scholarships project attempts to describe perceptual reorganization processes and to identify correlates of perceptual learning. You should have, or shortly expect to obtain, a high quality scientific degree in an area related to speech and hearing: such as psychology, cognitive neurosciences, or phonetics.
You should have an excellent written and spoken command of English and demonstrable knowledge of data analysis. Further, you should be able to quickly learn new research methods and data analysis methods. Knowledge of Dutch is considered an advantage.Radboud University Nijmegen is strategically located in Europe and is one of the leading academic communities in the Netherlands. Free College Scholarships Established in 1923 and situated in the oldest city of the Netherlands, it has nine faculties and enrolls over 17,500 students in 107 study programmes.
Scholarship Application Deadline: before 20 May 2011
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