Laurence Bruggeman wins scholarship to attend CHSCOM 2015

MARCS Institute PhD student Laurence Bruggeman (pictured right) has been awarded a travel grant to attend the Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication (CHSCOM) in Linköping, Sweden. 

Laurence successfully applied for one of two non-EU scholarships (conference fee, travel and accommodation) to attend CHSCOM 2015, which will be held from 14-17 June 2015. The scholarship is sponsored by the HÖST Graduate School at Karolinska Institutet. 

She will give an oral presentation at the CHSCOM preconference, and will present a poster at the conference itself. 

Using eyetracking and behavioural measures, Laurence investigates the roles of language nativeness and language dominance in the listening flexibility of Dutch-English bilingual immigrants in Australia. 

In addition, she investigates listening flexibilty in older adults. 

The third International CHSCOM conference will focus on two main themes: "Cognitive hearing in adverse listening conditions" and the "Cognitive hearing brain". These themes will be addressed from life span, intervention and multimodal perspectives. 

The conference is organised by the Linnaeus Centre HEAD for research on Hearing and Deafness. 

 On behalf of all at MARCS, congratulations to Laurence for being awarded this scholarship.