PhD Student
Hearing Cluster
Psychophysics and Audiology
Tel. +43 1 51581-2551
E-Mail: martin.lindenbeck(at)oeaw.ac.at
Scientific IDs:
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-7779-4767
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/martinlindenbeck
ResearchGate: www.researchgate.net/profile/Martin_Lindenbeck
Academic Background
2016: BSc in Electrical Engineering and Audio Engineering at the University of Technology Graz (TUG) and the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG).
2018: MSc (with distinction) in Electrical Engineering and Audio Engineering at the TUG and the KUG, specializing in acoustics and recording technology.
2017 - 2018: Master’s thesis at the KUG, conducted at the ARI: “Temporal Pitch in Electric Hearing with Short-Interpulse-Interval Stimulation”.
2018 - today: PhD in Natural Sciences in the field of Psychology at the University of Vienna: "Towards Improving Selective Hearing in Cochlear-Implant Listeners".
Current Research
Martin Lindenbeck investigates selective hearing in cochlear-implant (CI) listeners. These hearing prostheses are currently the most successful treatment for severe hearing loss or deafness.
Despite substantial successes in speech perception in quiet since the early 1990s, there are still substantial deficits in so-called electric hearing, especially in spatial hearing and pitch perception. CI listeners thus have major problems with speech intelligibility with background noise or melody perception. Within the ITD PsyPhy project, an improvement of directional coding (interaural time differences, ITD) in pseudo-syllabic signals in electric hearing with modified pulse trains is investigated. Since ITDs and pitch are coded in similar parts of the acoustic signal, in his master's thesis and also within the ITD PsyPhy project Martin Lindenbeck investigated to what extent these new signals further affect pitch perception.
In principle, pitch can be perceived when stimulating with only one of the roughly dozen electrodes usually available. For selective hearing, however, more than one stimulating electrode is required, ideally as many as possible. In his doctoral thesis, Martin Lindenbeck is investigating the effects of the interaction of several stimulating electrodes on selective hearing, in particular ITD and pitch perception as well as speech understanding. To conduct this work, he received a two-year DOC Fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Martin Lindenbeck on Wie man das menschliche Gehör verbessern kann (how to improve the human hearing), in ÖAW ScienceBites 2022
Projects
Publications
Publications
- Lindenbeck M.; Majdak P.; Srinivasan S.; Laback B. (2023) Pitch discrimination in electric hearing with inconsistent and consistent amplitude-modulation and inter-pulse rate cues. JASA, Bd. 6, S. 3268–3280.
- Lindenbeck M.; Majdak P.; Laback B. (2022) Channel interactions have less impact on temporal-pitch than ITD sensitivity in dual-electrode cochlear implant stimulation. 19th International Symposium on Hearing (ISH). Lyon, France.
- Lindenbeck M.; Laback B.; Majdak P.; Srinivasan S. (2020) Temporal-pitch sensitivity in electric hearing with amplitude modulation and inserted pulses with short inter-pulse intervals. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Bd. 147, S. 777-793.
- Lindenbeck M.; Majdak P.; Laback B. (2019) Binaural processing in a new cochlear-implant stimulation paradigm inserting extra pulses with short inter-pulse intervals. Proceedings of the ICA 2019 and EAA Euroregio (M. Ochmann, Vorlaender, M., and Fels, J., eds.). German Acoustical Society (DEGA), Berlin, Germany S. 2202-2209.
- Ferber M.; Laback B.; Lindenbeck M. (2019) Reweighting of Binaural Localization Cues in Bilateral Cochlear Implant Listeners. Conference on Implantable Auditory Prostheses. S. 62.
- Lindenbeck M. (2018) Temporal Pitch in Electric Hearing with Short-Interpulse-Interval Stimulation. . Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Graz S. 858.
- Laback B.; Srinivasan S.; Lindenbeck M.; Ferber M.; Majdak P. (2018) Towards increasing timing sensitivity in electric hearing. . Acoustical Society of America (ASA), Minneapolis, MN Bd. 143 S. 1785.