2025

• van der Heijden, K., Patel, P., Bickel, S., Herrero, J. L., Mehta, A. D., & Mesgarani, N. (2025). Joint population coding and temporal coherence link an attended talker’s voice and location features in naturalistic multi-talker scenes. Journal of Neuroscience.
• Kuang, S., Shi, J., van der Heijden, K., & Mehrkanoon, S. (2025). BAST-Mamba: Binaural Audio Spectrogram Mamba Transformer for binaural sound localization. Neurocomputing, 130804.
• Yuksel, G., van Gerven, M., & van der Heijden, K. (2025). General-purpose audio representation learning for real-world sound scenes. arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.00934.
• Ledder, W., Qin, Y., & van der Heijden, K. (2025, April). Audio-Driven Reinforcement Learning for Head-Orientation in Naturalistic Environments. In ICASSP 2025-2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.
• Olalere, F., van der Heijden, K., Stronks, C. H., Briaire, J., Frijns, J. H., & van Gerven, M. (2025). Leveraging spatial cues from cochlear implant microphones to efficiently enhance speech separation in real-world listening scenes. arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.14610.
• van Hoof, M., Lambriks, L., van der Heijden, K., Debruyne, J., Devocht, E., & George, E. (2025). Learning to hear again with alternating cochlear frequency allocations. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 317.

2023

• Vaessen, M., Van der Heijden, K., & de Gelder, B. (2023). Modality-specific brain representations during automatic processing of face, voice and body expressions. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17, 1132088.
• Lambriks, L., van Hoof, M., Debruyne, J., Janssen, M., Chalupper, J., van der Heijden, K., … & George, E. (2023). Imaging-based frequency mapping for cochlear implants–Evaluated using a daily randomized controlled trial. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 17, 1119933.

2022

• Patel, P., van der Heijden, K., Bickel, S., Herrero, J. L., Mehta, A. D., & Mesgarani, N. (2022). Interaction of bottom-up and top-down neural mechanisms in spatial multi-talker speech perception. Current Biology, 32(18), 3971-3986.
• van der Heijden, K., & Mehrkanoon, S. (2022). Goal-driven, neurobiological-inspired convolutional neural network models of human spatial hearing. Neurocomputing, 470, 432-442.

2020

• Lambriks, L. J. G., Van Hoof, M., Debruyne, J. A., Janssen, M., Chalupper, J., van der Heijden, K. A., … & Devocht, E. M. J. (2020). Evaluating hearing performance with cochlear implants within the same patient using daily randomization and imaging-based fitting-The ELEPHANT study. Trials, 21(1), 564.
• van der Heijden, K., Formisano, E., Valente, G., Zhan, M., Kupers, R., & de Gelder, B. (2020). Reorganization of sound location processing in the auditory cortex of blind humans. Cerebral Cortex, 30(3), 1103-1116.

2019

• van der Heijden, K., Rauschecker, J. P., de Gelder, B., & Formisano, E. (2019). Cortical mechanisms of spatial hearing. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 20(10), 609-623.

2018

• van der Heijden, K., Rauschecker, J. P., Formisano, E., Valente, G., & de Gelder, B. (2018). Active sound localization sharpens spatial tuning in human primary auditory cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 38(40), 8574-8587.

2017

• Derey, K., Rauschecker, J. P., Formisano, E., Valente, G., & de Gelder, B. (2017). Localization of complex sounds is modulated by behavioral relevance and sound category. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142(4), 1757-1773.

2016

• Derey, K., Valente, G., de Gelder, B., & Formisano, E. (2016). Opponent coding of sound location (azimuth) in planum temporale is robust to sound-level variations. Cerebral cortex, 26(1), 450-464.