Rob Zink - Studying brain functioning in natural, real-life situations through auditory attention

Event: 1st mbt Workshop, Belgrade, 30.09 - 01.10.
Speaker: Rob Zink
University: KU Leuven, Leuven
Topic: Studying brain functioning in natural, real-life situations through auditory attention

Introduction
After his Cognitive Neuroscience studies in Maastricht (NL), Rob obtained a PhD in Biomedical Signal Processing at the Electrical Engineering faculty at the KU Leuven in Belgium (2017). His work aims to embed EEG recordings in real-life scenarios. This includes the investigation of auditory attention under varying mobility conditions (e.g. outdoors or at home) and recording EEG with various hardware configurations such as EEG integrated headphones. He was awarded the "Best paper award in the field of Mobile Brain/Body Imaging" in 2017. Currently he is a post-doc at KU Leuven focusing on science communication and digital educational projects. Besides this scientific endeavor, he is a freelance Videographer/Animator in various projects (e.g. health awareness campaigns).

Abstract
Studying the human brain in real-life environments introduces several uncontrollable factors that are often neglected in lab scenarios. Besides the increased difficulty of data acquisition and data analysis, numerous distractions could be outlined that compete for attention with the task at hand when recording outside the lab. In this talk we discuss a few mobile EEG studies that attempt to assess auditory attention in natural environments.

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