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Emina Alickovic

Emina Alickovic

Principal Scientist

“I hope we find a cure against cancer.”

What is your primary work area within Eriksholm Research Centre?

My scientific focus is audiovisual speech processing in the brain. I am typically involved in the entire process of a research project, all the way from identifying it, planning it, collecting, and analyzing data and, of course, disseminating results. I collaborate closely with colleagues from other parts of the Demant organization and with scientists from universities.

What is your primary work area within Eriksholm Research Centre?

My scientific focus is audiovisual speech processing in the brain. I am typically involved in the entire process of a research project, all the way from identifying it, planning it, collecting, and analyzing data and, of course, disseminating results. I collaborate closely with colleagues from other parts of the Demant organization and with scientists from universities.

What originally triggered your interest in the hearing care field?

I hold a PhD in electrical engineering, and since I have a special passion for mathematics, I was determined to find a job where I could use this to explore how the brain works. After finalizing my PhD in 2015 I saw a postdoc advert from Linkoping University with the headline “Can we control our hearing with the brain”. The project in Linköping was part of the big CoCoHa project which was run in collaboration with Eriksholm. I lived in Bosnia and moving to Sweden was a big step for me, but I could not let this opportunity pass. And I am glad, I didn’t! After the two-year postdoc period I was offered a job as a research engineer at Eriksholm Research Centre to continue with my dream-job.

What originally triggered your interest in the hearing care field?

I hold a PhD in electrical engineering, and since I have a special passion for mathematics, I was determined to find a job where I could use this to explore how the brain works. After finalizing my PhD in 2015 I saw a postdoc advert from Linkoping University with the headline “Can we control our hearing with the brain”. The project in Linköping was part of the big CoCoHa project which was run in collaboration with Eriksholm. I lived in Bosnia and moving to Sweden was a big step for me, but I could not let this opportunity pass. And I am glad, I didn’t! After the two-year postdoc period I was offered a job as a research engineer at Eriksholm Research Centre to continue with my dream-job.

What motivates you in your job?

First, I use mathematics every day and that was my dream scenario. But equally important, I am really motivated by the fact that the work I do contributes to helping people. On top of that I have the best colleagues and I work at a place where many highly skilled younger scientists really want to work because they appreciate what we do here.

What motivates you in your job?

First, I use mathematics every day and that was my dream scenario. But equally important, I am really motivated by the fact that the work I do contributes to helping people. On top of that I have the best colleagues and I work at a place where many highly skilled younger scientists really want to work because they appreciate what we do here.

What do you hope to achieve in the long run?

At a personal level, I really hope to get a good understanding of how we process language, how hearing impairment impacts this, and how we can make hearing aids that better compensate for the individual hearing loss while at the same time optimize language understanding.

What do you hope to achieve in the long run?

At a personal level, I really hope to get a good understanding of how we process language, how hearing impairment impacts this, and how we can make hearing aids that better compensate for the individual hearing loss while at the same time optimize language understanding.

What do you do in your spare time when you’re not working at Eriksholm?

I have a long commute so I don’t have much spare time, but whenever I have some time off, I enjoy jumping on a plane and go wherever I can. I try to get to see as many corners of the world as possible. So far exploring the US has been one of my greatest experiences. I do go to Bosnia a lot, though, to see my family and my friends, and to go hiking! I have been hiking for 25 years and I still have many mountains to see.

What do you do in your spare time when you’re not working at Eriksholm?

I have a long commute so I don’t have much spare time, but whenever I have some time off, I enjoy jumping on a plane and go wherever I can. I try to get to see as many corners of the world as possible. So far exploring the US has been one of my greatest experiences. I do go to Bosnia a lot, though, to see my family and my friends, and to go hiking! I have been hiking for 25 years and I still have many mountains to see.

What is the most exciting scientific breakthrough or invention in your time?

I am really fascinated by Artificial Intelligence and the way this is applied to mimic human beings with the purpose of relieving them from dangerous or complicated tasks like mine sweeping or finding survivors in ruins.

What is the most exciting scientific breakthrough or invention in your time?

I am really fascinated by Artificial Intelligence and the way this is applied to mimic human beings with the purpose of relieving them from dangerous or complicated tasks like mine sweeping or finding survivors in ruins.

What do you hope will happen in future science?

I hope we find a cure against cancer.

What do you hope will happen in future science?

I hope we find a cure against cancer.

Publications

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Bilert, S. P., Hjortkjær, J., Alickovic, E., Shiell, M. M., Rotger-Griful, S., Zaar, J. (2021). Neural speech processing during selective listening in an audio-visual monologue vs. dialogue paradigm [Poster]. ARO 2021.
Baboukani, P. S., Graversen, C., Alickovic, E., Østergaard, J. (2021). EEG phase synchrony reflects snr levels during continuous speech-in-noise tasks [Conference]. In 2021 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society.
Andersen, A. H., Santurette, S., Pedersen, M. S., Alickovic, E., Fiedler, L., Jensen, J., Behrens, T. (2021). Creating clarity in noisy environments by using deep learning in hearing aids. Seminars in Hearing , 2021.
Alickovic, E., Lunner, T., Gustafsson, F. (2016). A system Identification Approach to Determining Listening Attention From EEG Signals [Conference Proceedings]. the 2016 European Signal Porcessing Conference, EUSPICO, Budapest, Hungary, August 29
Alickovic, E., Gustafson, F., Lunner, T. (2018). A Correlation-Based Learning Approach to Determining Listening Attention from EEG Signals [Presentation]. EMBC 2018 – 40th International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Hawaii, July 17-21, 2018.
Książek, P., Wendt, D., Alickovic, E., Lunner, T. (2018). Analysis of the individual listening effort reflected by the pupillary responses during speech perception in noise [Poster]. the Speech in Noise workshop (Spin) 2018 in Glasgow, UK.
Alickovic, E., Lunner, T., Gustafsson, F., & Ljung, L. (2019). A tutorial on Auditory attention identification methods. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2019.00153
Alickovic, E., Bramsløw, L., Hanif, U., Rossing, R., Naithani, G., Virtanen, T., Graversen, C., Wendt, D., Lunner, T., Pontoppidan, N. H. (2019). The Effect of DNN-Based Voice Segregation on Selective Attention [Poster]. International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering 2019, San Francisco.
Seifi, Ala, T., Graversen, C., Wendt, D., Alickovic, E., Hietkamp, R., Lunner, T. (2019). Assessment of Effort Mobilization with EEG and Pupillometry in Hearing Aid Users [Poster]. CHSCOM 2019, June 9-12, Sweden.
Lunner, T., Graversen, C., Seifi, Ala, T., Fiedler, L., Hietkamp, R., Wendt, D., Alickovic, E. (2019). Effect of Noise-Reduction Scheme on Auditory Attention Detection [Poster]. CHSCOM 2019, June 9-12, Sweden.
Alickovic, E., Graversen, C., Wendt, D., Książek, P., Hietkamp, R., Lunner, T. (2019). The Effect of Noise on the Selective Attention [Poster]. CNS 2019 in San Francisco.
Alickovic, E., Bramsløw, L., Hanif, U., Rossing, R., Naithani, G., Virtanen, T., Graversen, C., Wendt, D., Lunner, T., Pontoppidan, N. H. (2019). The Effect of DNN-Based Voice Segregation on Selective Attention [Poster]. International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering 2019, San Francisco.
Seifi, T., Graversen, C., Wendt, D., Aličković, E., Whitmer, W. M., & Lunner, T. (2020). An exploratory Study of EEG Alpha Oscillation and Pupil Dilation in Hearing-Aid Users During Effortful listening to Continuous Speech. PloS One, 15(7), e0235782. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0235782
Lunner, T., Aličković, E., Graversen, C., Ng, E. H. N., Wendt, D., & Keidser, G. (2020). Three new outcome measures that tap into cognitive processes required for Real-Life communication. Ear And Hearing, 41(Supplement 1), 39S-47S. https://doi.org/10.1097/aud.0000000000000941
Geirnaert, S., Vandecappelle, S., Alickovic, E., Cheveigné, A. D., Lalor, E., Meyer, B. T., Miran, S., Francart, T., Bertrand, A. (2020). Neuro-Steered Hearing Devices: Decoding Auditory Attention From the Brain. arXiv.
Baboukani, P. S., Graversen, C., Aličković, E., & Østergaard, J. (2020). Estimating conditional transfer entropy in time series using mutual information and nonlinear prediction. Entropy, 22(10), 1124. https://doi.org/10.3390/e22101124
Aličković, E., Lunner, T., Wendt, D., Fiedler, L., Hietkamp, R. K., Ng, E. H. N., & Graversen, C. (2020). Neural representation enhanced for speech and reduced for background noise with a hearing aid noise reduction scheme during a selective attention task. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.00846
Alickovic, E. (2020). The effect of hearing aid signal processing on neural speech processing [Presentation]. Advances and Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience (APAN).
Fiedler, L., Seifi, T., Graversen, C., Aličković, E., Lunner, T., & Wendt, D. (2021). Hearing aid noise reduction lowers the sustained listening effort during continuous speech in Noise—A combined pupillometry and EEG study. Ear And Hearing, 42(6), 1590–1601. https://doi.org/10.1097/aud.0000000000001050
Aličković, E., Ning Ng, E. H., Fiedler, L., Santurette, S., Innes‐Brown, H., & Graversen, C. (2021). Effects of hearing aid noise reduction on early and late cortical representations of competing talkers in noise. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 15. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2021.636060
Baboukani, P. S., Graversen, C., Aličković, E., & Østergaard, J. (2022). Speech to noise ratio improvement induces nonlinear parietal phase synchrony in hearing aid users. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 16. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2022.932959
Carta, S., Liberto, G. D., Valdes, A. L., Aličković, E., Zaar, J. (2022). Investigating the impact of hearing-aid processing strategies on hierarchical speech processing [Conference poster]. 6th International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication(CHSCOM).

Projects

Optimizing Level-Dependent Auditory Brainstem Responses to continuous speech
CURRENT
Optimizing Level-Dependent Auditory Brainstem Responses to continuous speech
4335,1037,8022

Personalised Audiology

Auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) are typically obtained by averaging EEG reactions to repeated tr...
Auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) are typically obtained by averaging EEG reactions to repeated transient stimuli,…
Speech ABR: clinically-useful brainstem responses to continuous speech
CURRENT
Speech ABR: clinically-useful brainstem responses to continuous speech
14000,1037,4335

Personalised Audiology

Auditory brainstem responses are small electrical signals generated in the ‘reptilian’ early par...
Auditory brainstem responses are small electrical signals generated in the ‘reptilian’ early part of the…
Neural Correlates of Speech Understanding 
CURRENT
Neural Correlates of Speech Understanding 
4335,3008

Intent Decoding, Cognitive Hearing Science

Try to picture yourself with your friends and family. You are at a restaurant, surrounded by other p...
Try to picture yourself with your friends and family. You are at a restaurant, surrounded…
Neural Correlates of Speech Intelligibility 
CURRENT
Neural Correlates of Speech Intelligibility 
7795,4341,4335

Cognitive Hearing Science, Personalised Audiology

Speech intelligibility describes how well listeners can understand and repeat back speech items, usu...
Speech intelligibility describes how well listeners can understand and repeat back speech items, usually short…
Cognitive Control of a Hearing Aid (COCOHA) 
FINALIZED
Cognitive Control of a Hearing Aid (COCOHA) 
4415

Intent Decoding

If a hearing aid can decode what sound source the user wishes to attend, it will be possible to cont...
If a hearing aid can decode what sound source the user wishes to attend, it…
Forming and Following Auditory Objects
Current
Forming and Following Auditory Objects
18176,1037,18178

Cognitive Hearing Science

This project investigates how the brain represents these auditory objects and how this process is af...
This project investigates how the brain represents these auditory objects and how this process is…
Communication Difficulty in Everyday Conversation
CURRENT
Communication Difficulty in Everyday Conversation
4415

Cognitive Hearing Science, Personalised Audiology

In this project we aim to study how behavior in hearing impaired participants as well as their inter...
In this project we aim to study how behavior in hearing impaired participants as well…
Optimizing Level-Dependent Auditory Brainstem Responses to continuous speech
CURRENT
Optimizing Level-Dependent Auditory Brainstem Responses to continuous speech
4335,1037,8022

Personalised Audiology

Auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) are typically obtained by averaging EEG reactions to repeated tr...
Auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) are typically obtained by averaging EEG reactions to repeated transient stimuli,…
Speech ABR: clinically-useful brainstem responses to continuous speech
CURRENT
Speech ABR: clinically-useful brainstem responses to continuous speech
14000,1037,4335

Personalised Audiology

Auditory brainstem responses are small electrical signals generated in the ‘reptilian’ early par...
Auditory brainstem responses are small electrical signals generated in the ‘reptilian’ early part of the…
Neural Correlates of Speech Understanding 
CURRENT
Neural Correlates of Speech Understanding 
4335,3008

Intent Decoding, Cognitive Hearing Science

Try to picture yourself with your friends and family. You are at a restaurant, surrounded by other p...
Try to picture yourself with your friends and family. You are at a restaurant, surrounded…
Neural Correlates of Speech Intelligibility 
CURRENT
Neural Correlates of Speech Intelligibility 
7795,4341,4335

Cognitive Hearing Science, Personalised Audiology

Speech intelligibility describes how well listeners can understand and repeat back speech items, usu...
Speech intelligibility describes how well listeners can understand and repeat back speech items, usually short…
Cognitive Control of a Hearing Aid (COCOHA) 
FINALIZED
Cognitive Control of a Hearing Aid (COCOHA) 
4415

Intent Decoding

If a hearing aid can decode what sound source the user wishes to attend, it will be possible to cont...
If a hearing aid can decode what sound source the user wishes to attend, it…

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