Adriana Zekveld (PhD) is a senior researcher at the Section Ear & Hearing, Dept. of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, VU medical center, Amsterdam.

Zekveld currently focuses on the application of pupillometry to assess listening effort during speech perception tasks. She is co-applicant of the ZonMW project REAL-HEARING and main applicant (PI) of the associated HANSA project that assess the relationship between hearing loss and physiological measures of listening effort and stress in laboratory and real-world (ambulatory) conditions. She was co-PI of the recently finished Marie Curie ITN EC project (HEAR-ECO) that aimed to develop and assess ecologically valid conditions for the evaluation of hearing-aid benefit using physiological measures including pupillometry.

Research focus:

• Physiological measures of cognitive processing during listening (pupillometry, cardiovascular measures, skin conductance, and fMRI)
• Speech comprehension, hearing loss, age, listening effort & cognition
• Cognitive hearing science
• Cognitive test development (Text Reception Threshold test)
• Evaluation of the speech perception benefit obtained from telephone-applications during speech comprehension

See: list of publications for more information.

aa.zekveld@amsterdamumc.nl