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Lindsey Van Yper serves as a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University within the Department of Linguistics Hearing Research Centre. With an ORCID identifier (0000-0002-6062-0928) and active research profile, she maintains a significant presence in auditory neuroscience research with an h-index of 7 based on Scopus citations.
Dr. Van Yper completed her PhD at Ghent University (Belgium) in 2016, with research funded by the Institute for Neuroscience conducted in collaboration with Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Her doctoral work focused on central auditory processing in cochlear implant users who wear hearing aids in their non-implanted ear.
Her research interests center on understanding brain mechanisms of binaural hearing in both normal hearing listeners and bilateral cochlear implant users. She employs electrophysiological techniques and functional near-infrared spectroscopy to investigate auditory processing, with particular emphasis on speech perception, cochlear prostheses, and neural responses to auditory stimuli. Her work bridges clinical audiology with fundamental neuroscience, examining how the brain processes complex auditory scenes and emotional vocal cues.
Analysis of her recent publications reveals consistent focus on neural correlates of auditory processing, with growing emphasis on cortical hemodynamic responses and the relationship between neural activity and perceptual outcomes in hearing-impaired populations. Her research increasingly incorporates advanced neuroimaging techniques to examine individual differences in auditory processing capabilities.
Dr. Van Yper actively supervises PhD candidates in auditory neuroscience, guiding research that utilizes neurophysiological measures to understand the human auditory system in both normal and impaired hearing conditions. Her grant portfolio includes significant projects such as 'On the relation between speech understanding and neural processing' (2021-2026), 'How does the human brain separate foreground and background in complex auditory scenes?' (2020), 'MQRIS Small: Audiological equipment to unlock hearing research' (2020), and the 'Faculty Equipment Grant Scheme 2017'.
She maintains laboratory facilities within the Hearing Research Centre, with recent dataset publications indicating active primate auditory research. Her work shows increasing media attention, with one dataset 'picked up by 17 news outlets' and widely shared on academic platforms.
