Sevgi Kadihanoglu
Lecturer Sevgi Kadihanoglu is a faculty member in the Audiometry Department at Kutahya Health Sciences University and is continuing her education in the Audiology Doctoral Program at Hacettepe University.
Her academic work focuses on pediatric audiology, cochlear implants, spatial hearing, psychoacoustics, music perception, and selective auditory attention. She conducts research on the development of innovative test batteries for the behavioral assessment of auditory processes and serves as a supervisor in research projects under the The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) Student Research Project Program.
Future plans include completing doctoral studies and continuing an academic career as a researcher and educator, as well as pursuing academic work in an international environment by participating in a postdoctoral program. She aims to conduct innovative research using behavioral, neurophysiological, and biomarker-based approaches in collaboration with multidisciplinary partners, and to contribute to the integration of these findings into clinical practice.
Session
Background & Aim
Spatial listening is the ability to distinguish a target speech stream from simultaneous distracting noise using auditory spatial awareness. It relies on several factors, including the listener’s hearing thresholds, auditory experience, familiarity with the surrounding environment, motivation, and attention.
Listening in noisy environments is especially challenging for younger children in school settings, where early educational skills are often taught amidst background noise. Spatial processing disorder (SPD) is a significant issue observed in a notable proportion of children diagnosed with auditory processing disorder (APD). This round table will explore spatial listening research work in children
Material & Methods
Psychophysical and electrophysiological measures of spatial listening were condcted on normal children to establish norms for these measures
Results
It showed normal scores of the test that improved with age in both LiSN test and electrophysiological measures
Conclusions
LiSN test is a promising tool for assessing spatial listening as well as electrophysiological measures
Keywords
LiSN test-cortical measures- spatial listening- Auditory processing disorders