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Dr. Leanne Nagels is a researcher at the University of Groningen and University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), affiliated with both the Faculty of Medical Sciences' Department of Otorhinolaryngology and the Semantics and Cognition research group at the Center of Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG). Her PhD project, supervised by Professors Petra Hendriks and Deniz Başkent, investigates the perception of indexical voice cues (e.g., gender, emotion) in children and adults with cochlear implants. This interdisciplinary work bridges linguistics and audiology, addressing challenges in speech perception and cognitive processing among hearing-impaired populations.
Her research focuses on how degraded acoustic signals from cochlear implants affect voice perception, vocal emotion recognition, and speech comprehension in noisy environments. Key contributions include developing the EmoHI test to assess emotional voice perception in hearing-impaired children and identifying dissociated developmental trajectories for gender and emotion perception in pediatric cochlear implant users. She has published extensively in journals like Scientific Reports, PeerJ, and Trends in Hearing, and received the PeerJ VIHAR workshop Best Proceedings Paper Award (2019).
- Education: PhD candidate in Linguistics/Audiology, University of Groningen (2017–present); Master’s thesis on contextual and lexical processing in cochlear implant users (supervised by Dr. Anita Wagner).
- Affiliations: Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences Groningen (BCN); Center of Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG).
Her work highlights how early auditory deprivation impacts voice perception abilities and advocates for tailored rehabilitation strategies to improve quality of life for cochlear implant users.
