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Björn Lyxell is affiliated with Linköping University in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience and psychology with a strong emphasis on cognitive neuroscience and developmental and educational psychology. The scientist's work also spans sensory systems, experimental and cognitive psychology, and speech and hearing.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Hearing Impairment and Communication
  • Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Child and Animal Learning Development

Recent publications by Björn Lyxell include the following papers:

  • "How Do We Allocate Our Resources When Listening and Memorizing Speech in Noise? A Pupillometry Study" (2021, Ear and Hearing)
  • "Social communication and quality of life in children using hearing aids" (2021, International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology)
  • "Informational Masking and Listening Effort in Speech Recognition in Noise: The Role of Working Memory Capacity and Inhibitory Control in Older Adults With and Without Hearing Impairment" (2022, Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research)
  • "Comparison of Expressive Spoken Language Skills in Children With Cochlear Implants and Children With Typical Hearing" (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • "The relationship between reasoning and language ability: comparing children with cochlear implants and children with typical hearing" (2020, Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology)

Björn Lyxell frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Malin Wass
  • Elisabet Engström
  • Petter Kallioinen
  • Cecilia Nakeva von Mentzer
  • Birgitta Sahlén

The scientist's research has been published multiple times in several prominent venues such as:

  • International Journal of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology
  • Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Ear and Hearing
  • Logopedics Phoniatrics Vocology

Best Publications

  • The Ease of Language Understanding (ELU) model: Theoretical, empirical, and clinical advances

    Jerker Rönnberg;Thomas Lunner;Adriana Zekveld;Adriana Zekveld;Patrik Sörqvist

  • Working memory deficit in children with mathematical difficulties: A general or specific deficit?

    Ulf Andersson;Björn Lyxell

  • The emergence of cognitive hearing science.

    Stig Arlinger;Thomas Lunner;Björn Lyxell;M Kathleen Pichora-Fuller

  • Visual evoked potentials: relation to adult speechreading and cognitive function.

    Jerker Rönnberg;Stig Arlinger;Björn Lyxell;Catharina Kinnefors

  • Cognitive performance and perceived effort in speech processing tasks: effects of different noise backgrounds in normal-hearing and hearing-impaired subjects Desempeño cognitivo y percepción del esfuerzo en tareas de procesamiento del lenguaje: Efectos de las diferentes condiciones de fondo en sujetos normales e hipoacúsicos

    Birgitta Larsby;Mathias Hällgren;Björn Lyxell;Stig Arlinger

  • Self-concept and questions of life: identity development during late adolescence

    Lena Adamson;Björn Lyxell

  • Cognitive effects in dichotic speech testing in elderly persons.

    Mathias Hällgren;Birgitta Larsby;Björn Lyxell;Stig Arlinger

  • Speech understanding in quiet and noise, with and without hearing aids

    Mathias Hällgren;Birgitta Larsby;Björn Lyxell;Stig Arlinger

  • Information-processing skill and speech-reading

    Björn Lyxell;Jerker Rönnberg

  • Understanding minds: early cochlear implantation and the development of theory of mind in children with profound hearing impairment.

    Annette Sundqvist;Annette Sundqvist;Björn Lyxell;Björn Lyxell;Radoslava Jönsson;Mikael Heimann;Mikael Heimann

  • Objective Assessment of Listening Effort: Coregistration of Pupillometry and EEG:

    Kelly Miles;Kelly Miles;Kelly Miles;Catherine McMahon;Catherine McMahon;Isabelle Boisvert;Isabelle Boisvert;Ronny Ibrahim;Ronny Ibrahim

  • Cognitive and linguistic skills in Swedish children with cochlear implants - measures of accuracy and latency as indicators of development

    Malin Wass;Tina Ibertsson;Björn Lyxell;Birgitta Sahlén

  • Hearing impairment, cognition and speech understanding: exploratory factor analyses of a comprehensive test battery for a group of hearing aid users, the n200 study.

    Jerker Rönnberg;Thomas Lunner;Elaine Hoi Ning Ng;Björn Lidestam

  • Phonological representation and speech understanding with cochlear implants in deafened adults.

    BjöRn Lyxell;Jan Andersson;Ulf Andersson;Stig Arlinger

  • Working-memory capacity and phonological processing in deafened adults and individuals with a severe hearing impairment

    Björn Lyxell;Ulf Andersson;Erik Borg;Inga Stina Ohlsson

  • Adolescent identity—a qualitative approach: Self-concept, existential questions and adult contacts

    Lena Adamson;Sven g. Hartman;Björn Lyxell

  • Cognitive Correlates of Visual Speech Understanding in Hearing-Impaired Individuals

    Ulf Andersson;Björn Lyxell;Jerker Rönnberg;Karl-Erik Spens

  • Evaluation of a cognitive test battery in young and elderly normal-hearing and hearing-impaired persons.

    Mathias Hällgren;Birgitta Larsby;Björn Lyxell;Stig Arlinger

  • Cognitive development in children with cochlear implants: relations to reading and communication

    Björn Lyxell;Birgitta Sahlén;Malin Wass;Tina Ibertsson

  • Appearances are deceptive? Long-term cognitive and central auditory sequelae from closed head injury.

    Per Olof Bergemalm;Björn Lyxell

  • Hearing loss and a supportive tactile signal in a navigation system: Effects on driving behavior and eye movements

    Birgitta Thorslund;Björn Peters;Nicholas Herbert;Kenneth Holmqvist

  • Cognitive development, reading and prosodic skills in children with cochlear implants.

    Björn Lyxell;Björn Lyxell;Malin Wass;Malin Wass;Birgitta Sahlén;Birgitta Sahlén;Christina Samuelsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerker Rönnberg
Jerker Rönnberg Linköping University
Magnus Lindgren
Magnus Lindgren Lund University
Stefan Samuelsson
Stefan Samuelsson Linköping University
Mary Rudner
Mary Rudner Linköping University
Gerhard Andersson
Gerhard Andersson Linköping University
Patrik Sörqvist
Patrik Sörqvist University of Gaevle
Mikael Heimann
Mikael Heimann Linköping University
M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller
M. Kathleen Pichora-Fuller University of Toronto
Anne Castles
Anne Castles Macquarie University
Jarl Risberg
Jarl Risberg Lund University

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