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Jan Wouters

Jan Wouters

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D-Index
66
Citations
13232
World Ranking
1455
National Ranking
14

Overview

Jan Wouters is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the field of neuroscience, with a specific focus on auditory processing and hearing-related research. Their scholarly work spans a wide range of topics within neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, sensory systems, signal processing, and speech and hearing.

Their research addresses main topics including:

  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics
  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Noise Effects and Management
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Speech and Audio Processing

Jan Wouters has published in several notable research venues, often contributing multiple papers to these journals. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Hearing Research
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology
  • International Journal of Audiology
  • Ear and Hearing

Collaborations are a significant part of Wouters' scholarly output. Regular co-authors include:

  • Astrid Van Wieringen
  • Pol Ghesquière
  • Robin Gransier
  • Maaike Vandermosten
  • Jolijn Vanderauwera

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Jan Wouters include:

  • The digit triplet test: a scoping review, 2021, International Journal of Audiology
  • Brain mapping of auditory steady-state responses: A broad view of cortical and subcortical sources, 2020, Human Brain Mapping
  • Longitudinal auditory data of children with prelingual single-sided deafness managed with early cochlear implantation, 2022, Scientific Reports
  • Neural tracking of the fundamental frequency of the voice: The effect of voice characteristics, 2021, European Journal of Neuroscience
  • Neural envelope tracking predicts speech intelligibility and hearing aid benefit in children with hearing loss, 2023, Hearing Research

Best Publications

  • Horizontal localization with bilateral hearing aids: Without is better than with

    Tim Van den Bogaert;Thomas J. Klasen;Marc Moonen;Lieselot Van Deun

  • Speech Intelligibility Predicted from Neural Entrainment of the Speech Envelope.

    Jonas Vanthornhout;Lien Decruy;Jan Wouters;Jonathan Z. Simon

  • When structures become shackles: stagnation and dynamics in international lawmaking

    Joost Pauwelyn;Ramses A. Wessel;Jan Wouters

  • APEX 3: a multi-purpose test platform for auditory psychophysical experiments

    Tom Francart;Astrid van Wieringen;Jan Wouters

  • Modelling Relations between Sensory Processing, Speech Perception, Orthographic and Phonological Ability, and Literacy Achievement.

    Bart Boets;Jan Wouters;Astrid van Wieringen;Bert De Smedt

  • Adaptive feedback cancellation in hearing aids with linear prediction of the desired signal

    A. Spriet;I. Proudler;M. Moonen;J. Wouters

  • Spatially pre-processed speech distortion weighted multi-channel Wiener filtering for noise reduction

    A. Spriet;M. Moonen;J. Wouters

  • Speech understanding in background noise with the two-microphone adaptive beamformer BEAM in the Nucleus Freedom Cochlear Implant System.

    Ann Spriet;Lieselot Van Deun;Kyriaky Eftaxiadis;Johan Laneau

  • Coding of the fundamental frequency in continuous interleaved sampling processors for cochlear implants

    Luc Geurts;Jan Wouters

  • Frequency-domain criterion for the speech distortion weighted multichannel Wiener filter for robust noise reduction

    Simon Doclo;Ann Spriet;Jan Wouters;Marc Moonen

  • Multicenter evaluation of signal enhancement algorithms for hearing aids.

    Heleen Luts;Koen Eneman;Jan Wouters;Michael Schulte

  • Binaural Noise Reduction Algorithms for Hearing Aids That Preserve Interaural Time Delay Cues

    T.J. Klasen;T. Van den Bogaert;M. Moonen;J. Wouters

  • Sound Coding in Cochlear Implants: From electric pulses to hearing

    Jan Wouters;Hugh Joseph McDermott;Tom Francart

  • Speech enhancement with multichannel Wiener filter techniques in multimicrophone binaural hearing aids

    Tim Van den Bogaert;Simon Doclo;Jan Wouters;Marc Moonen

  • Improved music perception with explicit pitch coding in cochlear implants.

    Johan Laneau;Jan Wouters;Marc Moonen

  • Speech recognition in noise for cochlear implantees with a two-microphone monaural adaptive noise reduction system

    Jan Wouters;Jeff Vanden Berghe

  • Comparison of three types of French speech-in-noise tests: A multi-center study

    Sofie Jansen;Heleen Luts;Kirsten Carola Wagener;Birger Kollmeier

  • Theoretical Analysis of Binaural Multimicrophone Noise Reduction Techniques

    B. Cornelis;S. Doclo;T. Van dan Bogaert;M. Moonen

  • Adaptive feedback cancellation in hearing aids

    Ann Spriet;Geert Rombouts;Marc Moonen;Jan Wouters

  • Objective assessment of frequency-specific hearing thresholds in babies

    Heleen Luts;Christian Desloovere;Ariane Kumar;Eugène Vandermeersch

  • The French digit triplet test: A hearing screening tool for speech intelligibility in noise

    Sofie Jansen;Heleen Luts;Kirsten Carola Wagener;Bruno Frachet

  • Reduced-Bandwidth and Distributed MWF-Based Noise Reduction Algorithms for Binaural Hearing Aids

    S. Doclo;M. Moonen;T. Van den Bogaert;J. Wouters

  • A tractography study in dyslexia: neuroanatomic correlates of orthographic, phonological and speech processing (invited lecture)

    Maaike Vandermosten;Jan Wouters;Pol Ghesquière

Frequent Co-Authors

Marc Moonen
Marc Moonen KU Leuven
Bart Boets
Bart Boets KU Leuven
Simon Doclo
Simon Doclo Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg
Robert P. Carlyon
Robert P. Carlyon University of Cambridge
Søren Holdt Jensen
Søren Holdt Jensen University of Extremadura
Joost Pauwelyn
Joost Pauwelyn Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies
Paul Van de Heyning
Paul Van de Heyning University of Antwerp

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