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I obtained my MAI in Biomedical Engineering from Trinity College Dublin in 2016. My interest in physiological and neural correlates of speech processing stems from my Master’s thesis, using EEG to decode attentional selection in a cocktail party situation. I was eager to work in an interdisciplinary and collaborative environment as I wanted the opportunity to approach my work from different perspectives. This led me to joining the dB SPL group (http://www.dbaskent.org/people/) in 2017 as a Marie Curie PhD as part of the ENRICH European Training Network.
At the moment I am working on emotion recognition research in normal hearing and hearing impaired listeners under the supervision of Dr. Deniz Başkent and Dr. Anita Wagner. The official title of my project is 'Enhancement of Speech Emotion Recognition'. I investigate pupillometry as a physiological measure of emotion recognition in response to emotional speech and sounds, in normal hearing and hearing impaired populations.
ENRICH has a main focus of improving speech intelligibility, and understanding and reducing listening effort for a number of different populations. My work focuses specifically on understanding and improving emotion perception in hearing impaired populations. My first study investigated how pupil dilations can reflect emotional processing of speech and sound in normal hearing participants. Following that, I was stationed at the research department of Sonova, I tested the effect and benefits of a specific hearing aid algorithm on hearing impaired listeners emotion recognition abilities. Currently, I am working on writing up the results of these studies.