Presentations

Giroud, N. (2025, May). Can age-related hearing loss lead to dementia? Hospital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland. 

Giroud, N. (2025, April). Hearing rehabilitation 2025. An update. ENT clinic University hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland. 

Giroud, N. (2025, March). How Our Brains Synchronize When We Talk to Each Other. BrainFAIR for school classes, Zurich, Switzerland.

Giroud, N. (2025, March). Listening When It's Noisy in the Classroom: A Masterpiece of the Brain. BrainFAIR for school classes. Zurich, Switzerland. 

Giroud, N. (2025, March). Hearing and dementia. World Day of Hearing, Pro Audito. Zurich, Switzerland. 

Giroud, N. (2025, March). How hearing loss affects the neurobiology underlying language and thinking. BrainFAIR, Zurich, Switzerland. 

Giroud, N. (2024, October). EEG to detect language pathology and cognitive decline in aging. Symposium EEG 100 years. Department of Psychiatry, University of Zurich.

Giroud, N. (2024, October). Why we do not hear with our ears but with our brain, especially in old age. University for Senior Citizens Liechtenstein.

Giroud, N. (2024, October). Why we do not hear with our ears, but with our brain, especially in old age. University for Senior Citizens Winterthur.

Giroud, N. (2024, October). Why we do not hear with our ears but with our brain, especially in old age. University for Seniors Zurich.

Giroud, N. (2024, September). Hearing and the brain: Brain training against hearing loss? New findings from brain research. Lecture at Akustika, online.

Giroud, N. (2024, September). Dementia and language. Lecture on health and language at the University of Bern.

Kleinjung, T. & Giroud, N. (2024, September). Biomarkers for a better assessment of disorders of hearing, speech and language in different medical fields. Workshop at the annual Center for Neuroscience (ZNZ) symposium, University of Zurich.

Giroud, N. (2024, March). The Basics of why the senses matter for cognitive health and dementia risk. Panel discussion for The first Basics webinar from the ISTAART sensory health and cognition PIA. Online.

Giroud, N. (2024, March). Sprache als Marker und Interventionsmöglichkeit bei einer beginnenden Demenz. Psychiatrisches Kolloquium. Zurich, Switzerland.

Giroud, N. (2023. November). Podium discussion at LiZZ Gespräche on «Inclusion and diversity and language». University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Giroud, N. (2023, October). Healthy Aging. Invited talk for event “Humor im Kopf. Die packende Wissenschaft & Praxis von Humor und Glück“ organized by Hirncoach.ch with Dr. Barbara Studer, Adolf Ogi and Rob Spence. Lenzburg, Switzerland.

Giroud, N. (2023, October). Improving speech communication in healthy and pathological aging. Invited talk for the Center for interdisciplinary study of language evolution. University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Giroud, N. (2023, August). Behavioral and neural plasticity in the aging auditory system in health and dementia-risk following app-based training. Invited presentation at the International Symposium on Auditory and Audiological Research ISAAR conference, Nyborg, Denmark.  

Giroud, N. (2023, June). Lip reading and hearing training from a neuroscientific view. Invited talk for professional education for audiagogy trainees from Pro Audito Schweiz, Zurich, Switzerland.

Giroud. N. (2023, May). Hören und Gehirn. Invited talk for a webinar for HirnCoach AG, Zurich, Switzerland.

Giroud, N. (2023, March). Hearing loss and dementia. Facts and myths [Hörverlust und Demenz: Fakten und Mythen]. Invited presentation for webinar at World Day of Hearing for Pro Audito, Zurich, Switzerland.

Giroud, N. (2023, March). Invited presentation for the annual anniversary of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences, Casino, Bern, Switzerland.

Giroud N. (2022, November). Gut hören = gesundes Gehirn? [Hearing well = healthy brain?]. Invited talk for Public Event Universitäre Altersmedizin University of Zurich.

Giroud N. (2022, October). Invited podium discussant “die vielen Facetten des Alterns” [the many facets of aging] for the Developmental Science Network Zurich.

Meyer, M., & Giroud N. (2022, July). Speech prosody and the brain. Invited talk at the workshop “Behavioral and neuroimaging methods used in the study of L1 and L2 stress perception”, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland.

Giroud N., (2022, July). Hearing loss as a risk factor for health problems at the workplace. Invited workshop for Credit Suisse Bank, Zurich, Switzerland.

Giroud, N. (2022, June). Non-pharmacological interventions and prevention for healthy longevity. Invited talk and guest at the World Economic Forum’s Davos'22 (WEF): Longevity Investors Lunch (private event)

Giroud, N. (2021, Sept). Is hearing loss a risk factor of dementia? Invited presentation for the Max Planck Research School on the Life Course, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Giroud, N. (2021, Sept). Is hearing loss a risk factor of dementia? The role of the brain in the hearing-cognition association. Invited presentation for the ZNZ Symposium, Neuroscience Center Zurich, Switzerland.

Giroud, N. (2021, Sept). Disruptions in language processing. Invited keynote for opening ceremony of the Linguistic Research Infrastructure (LiRi) at University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Giroud, N. (2021, Sept). The influence of hearing loss onto cognition and the brain [Der Einfluss von Hörverlust auf Kognition und Gehirn]. Invited talk for Sonova Retail Germany, GEERS Gutes Hören, virtual.

Giroud, N. (2021, August). Hearing loss and dementia. Facts and myths [Hörverlust und Demenz: Fakten und Mythen]. Invited talk for Pro Audito Schweiz. Zurich, Switzerland. 

Giroud, N. (2021, March). The impact of hearing loss onto the brain. Invited talk for the Sonova Virtual Webinar on Hearing and Cognition. Sonova, Stäfa, Switzerland.

Giroud, N. (2019, December). Healthy brain until old age [Fittes Gehirn bis ins hohe Alter]. Invited talk at the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Brugg, Switzerland.

Giroud, N. (2017, July). We do not hear with the ear, but with the brain [Wir hören nicht mit dem Ohr sondern mit dem Hirn]. Invited talk at the Volkshochschule Stäfa, Stäfa, Switzerland.

Giroud, N. (2017, June). Physical activity, healthy aging, and the brain. [Fitness, gesundes Altern und das Gehirn]. Invited talk for the annual meeting of the Academic Sports Association Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Giroud, N. (2017, May). Hearing is exhausting when you are older. [Hören wird für das Gehirn im Alter anstrengender]. Invited talk to the Schweizerischer Hörakustikerverein. Fribourg, Switzerland.

Giroud, N. (2017 February). Defining central presbycusis: The relation between brain structure, brain function and behavior in older adults. Invited Talk at the weekly group meeting of Department of Auditory Neuroscience, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of Sciences in Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic.

Giroud, N. (2017, January). Die Sprache des alternden Gehirns [The Language of the Aging Brain]. Invited talk for Rotary Club in Bern, Switzerland.

Giroud, N., & Kegel, A. (2016, November). Lower speech intelligibility in older adults - The aging ear or brain? Invited talk for the ARCHES Meeting, Zurich, Switzerland.

Giroud, N. (2016, May). Sport & Gehirn [Sport and the brain]. Invited talk for Swiss Ski Conference organized by Swiss Ski at the Swiss Paraplegic Foundation in Nottwil, Switzerland.

Giroud, N., Lemke, U., & Meyer, M. (2016, May). Longitudinal auditory plasticity in older hearing aid users. Invited talk for the Symposium Audition, Cognition, and Aging at the Conference Psychology and the Brain [Psychologie und Gehirn], Berlin, Germany.

Giroud, N. (2016, April). Sport & Gehirn [Sport and the brain]. Invited talk for the semi-annually public lecture “Sport & …” organized by the Academic Sports Association Zurich at the ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Giroud, N. (2016, February). Dynamics of Electrophysiology during Speech Processing and Morphology in Healthy Older Adults. Invited talk at the group meeting of the National Center for Rehabilitative Auditory Research (NCRAR) at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Portland, USA.

Giroud, N. (2016, February). The Phonak study: Dynamics of Electrophysiology during Speech Perception in Older Hearing Aid Users. Invited talk at the group meeting of the Brain and Behavior (B&B) Lab at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

Giroud, N. (2016, January). Dynamics of Electrophysiology during Speech Perception and Morphology in Older Adults with Age-Related Hearing Loss. Invited talk at the group meeting of the Cognition, Aging, and Psychophysiology (CAP) Lab at Concordia University, Montréal, Canada.

Giroud, N. (2015, October). Neurophysiology and intervention in adults with age-related hearing loss and hearing aids. Invited talk at the colloquium of the research unit of Cognitive and Neural Dynamics of Memory at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany.

Giroud, N. & Meyer, M. (2014, September). Dynamic functional lateralization during speech processing. Developing a paradigm to investigate speech processing in older adults. Invited talk for the INAPIC Fall Workshop, Zurich, Switzerland.

 

Perepelytsia, V., Giroud, N., Aras, T., Meyer, M., & Dellwo, V., (2022, July). Neural underpinnings of familiar talker advantage: an EEG study. International association for forensic phonetics and acoustics, Prague. Czech Republic.

Frei., V., Meyer, M., & Giroud, N. (2022, June). The facilitative role of visual speech cues in older individuals with hearing impairment – how is audio-visual speech processed in hearing aid users? 6^th International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication (CHSCOM). Linköping, Sweden.

Bachmann, F., Giroud, N. & Hjortkjaer, J. (2022, June). Enhanced cortical neural tracking of speech in age-related hearing loss is not driven by stimulus level amplification? 6^th International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication (CHSCOM). Linköping, Sweden.

Giroud, N. (2021, April). The impact of age-related hearing loss on neural speech tracking. International Online Workshop on Language in Healthy and Pathological Aging (AGELANG), virtual conference.

Sauppe, S., Norcliffe, E., Choudhary, K.K., Konopka, A. E., Egurtzegi, A. M., Giroud, N., Bhattamishra, S., Gulati, M., Garrido, G., Blasi, D.E., Bornkessel-Schleswesky, I., Laka, I., Meyer, M., Levinson, S.C., & Bickel, B. (2021, February). Case marking shapes the time-course of sentence planning: Crosslinguistic evidence from Hindi, Yélî Dnye, Japanese, Basque and Swiss German. 43. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft-Jahrestagung. Freiburg, Germany.

Sauppe, S., Choudhary, K., Giroud, N., Blasi, D.E., Bhattamishra, S., Gulati, M., Egurtzegi, A., Bornkessel-Schlesewsky, I., Meyer, M., & Bickel, B. (2019, August). Partial overlap of syntactic configurations between sentences affects oscillatory activity during sentence planning in the brain. Societas Linguistica Europaea. Leipzig, Germany.

Pryss, R., Schlee, W., Reichert, M., Kurthen, I., Giroud, N., Jagoda, L., Neuschwander, P., Meyer, M., Neff, P., Schobel, J., Hoppenstedt, B., Spiliopoulou, M., Langguth, B., Probst, T. (2019, July). Ecological Momentary Assessment based Differences between Android and iOS Users of the TrackYourHearing mHealth Crowdsensing Platform. 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society. Berlin, Germany.

Giroud, N., Pichora-Fuller, M. K., Mick P., Wittich, W., Al-Yawer, F., Rehan, S., & Phillips, N. A. (2019, June). Age-related hearing loss and cortical atrophy in older adults with (or at risk for) dementia: How strong is the relationship? 5th International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication (CHSCOM), Linköping, Sweden.

Kurthen, I., Christen, A., Profant, O., Bures, Z., Meyer, M., Giroud, N.  (2019, May). Restoration of missing auditory input is related to alpha desynchronization. LIFE Academy of the Max Planck Research School on the life course. Michigan, USA.

Giroud, N., Baum, S.R., Phillips, N.A., Gracco, V. (2019, March). Auditory brainstem responses to English vowels in English-French simultaneous and early bilinguals. Montréal Bilingual Brain Symposium. Montréal, Canada.

Giroud, N., Pichora-Fuller, M. K., Mick P., Wittich, W., Al-Yawer, F., Rehan, S., & Phillips, N. A. (2019, February). Age-related hearing loss and cortical atrophy in older adults with (or at risk for) dementia: How strong is the relationship? Annual conference of the Centre for Research on Human Development (CRDH), Montréal, Canada.

Kliesch, M., Giroud, N., Pfenninger, S., & Meyer, M. (2018, September). Cognition and beta-oscillations at rest predict L2 development in third age. Cognitive Neuroscience of Second and Artificial Language Learning, CoNSALL, Wales, UK.

Giroud, N., Herbert, M., & Phillips, N.A. (2018, May). Does lip reading make speech comprehension easier for everyone? Electrophysiological evidence on interindividual differences in younger and older adults. Joint Meeting of the ECNS, ISNIP, ISBET, and the ISFSI, Pittsburgh, USA.

Giroud, N., Herbert, M., & Phillips, N.A. (2018, May). Does lip reading make speech comprehension easier for everyone? Electrophysiological evidence on interindividual differences in younger and older adults with varying working memory capacity. Talk at the engAGE student symposium, Montreal, QC, Canada.

Pellegrino, E., He, L., Giroud, N., Meyer, M., & Dellwo, V. (2017, July). Age-related rhythmic variations: an investigation on Zurich German. Talk at the 16th Rhythm Production and Perception Workshop, Birmingham, England.

Giroud, N., Hirsiger, S., Keller, M., Kegel., A., Dillier, N., Dellwo, V., Meyer, M. (2017, June). Central age-related hearing loss – An integrative view of brain structural, brain functional and audiometric data with a focus on prosody perception. Talk at the European Federation of Audiology Societies EFAS, Interlaken, Switzerland.

Kurthen, I., Giroud, N., Dellwo, V., Meyer, M. (2017, June). Temporal fine structure processing in older adults: beyond the syllable boundary. Talk at the 4th International Conference on Cognitive Hearing Science for Communication, Linköping, Sweden.

Pellegrino, E., He, L., Giroud, N., Meyer, M., & Dellwo, V. (2017, June). Rhythmic characteristics in aging: a study on Zurich German. Talk at the Conference of the Acoustical Society of America, Boston, USA.

Kegel, A., Lai, W.-K., Giroud, N., Meyer, M., & Dillier, N. (2017, February). Unterschiede in auditorischen Profilen in jüngeren und älteren normalhörenden Erwachsenen. Talk at the Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Audiologie, Aachen, Germany.

Giroud, N., Lemke, U., & Meyer, M. (2015, September). Longitudinal improvement of speech discrimination evidences the efficacy of top-down plasticity as revealed by electrical neuroimaging. Talk at the International Conference on Basic and Clinical Multimodal Imaging BACI, Utrecht, Netherlands.

Giroud, N. (2015, May). Cognitive hearing: Neurophysiology and intervention in adults with age-related hearing loss. Talk at the LIFE Spring Academy, Ann Arbor, USA.

Hasse, A. *, Leemann, A., Giroud, N. *, & Meyer, M. (2014, June). Entsteht linguistische Salienz im Gehirn?. [Is linguistic salience developed in the brain?] 8th Days of Swiss Linguistics, Zurich, Switzerland. *authors contributed equally