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Employment (4)

Bionics Institute: East Melbourne, VIC, AU

2013 to present | Leader, Translational Hearing Researgh
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Colette McKay

University of Manchester: Manchester, Greater Manchester, GB

2007 to 2013 | Chair in Applied Hearing Research (School of Psychological Sciences)
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Colette McKay

Aston University: Birmingham, West Midlands, GB

2005 to 2006 | Chair in Hearing Research (School of life Sciences)
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Colette McKay

University of Melbourne: Melbourne, VIC, AU

1982 to 2004 | Research Fellow (Otolaryngology)
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Colette McKay

Education and qualifications (3)

University of Melbourne: Melbourne, VIC, AU

1980 to 1980 | Diploma in Audiology (Otolaryngology)
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Colette McKay

University of Melbourne: Melbourne, VIC, AU

1975 to 1979 | PhD (Physics)
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Colette McKay

University of Melbourne: Melbourne, VIC, AU

1971 to 1974 | BSc(Hons) (Physics)
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Colette McKay

Works (18)

Auditory- and visual-speech evoked activation of the superior temporal gyrus contralateral to the cochlear implant predicts speech understanding outcomes

2025-03-15 | Preprint
Contributors: Tommy Peng; Colette McKay; Jamal Esmaelpoor; Katherine R. Henshall; Maureen Shader; Robert Luke; Linty McDonald; Mica Haneman
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Longitudinal speech understanding outcomes in cochlear implant recipients are associated with neural factors identified using psychophysics and functional brain imaging

2025-03-15 | Preprint
Contributors: Tommy Peng; Colette McKay; Maureen Shader; Robert Luke; Linty McDonald; Jamal Esmaelpoor; Mica Haneman; Katherine R. Henshall
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Measuring Speech Discrimination Ability in Sleeping Infants Using fNIRS—A Proof of Principle

Trends in Hearing
2025-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Onn Wah Lee; Demi Gao; Tommy Peng; Julia Wunderlich; Darren Mao; Gautam Balasubramanian; Colette M. McKay
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Cross-modal Functional Plasticity after Cochlear-implantation

2024-08-22 | Preprint
Contributors: Jamal Esmaelpoor; Tommy Peng; Beth Jelfs; Darren Mao; Maureen J. Shader; Colette M. McKay
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Resting-state Functional Connectivity Predicts Cochlear-Implant Speech Outcomes

2024-02-02 | Preprint
Contributors: Jamal Esmaelpoor; Tommy Peng; Beth Jelfs; Darren Mao; Maureen J. Shader; Colette M. McKay
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Two Independent Response Mechanisms to Auditory Stimuli Measured with Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Sleeping Infants

Trends in Hearing
2024-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Onn Wah Lee; Darren Mao; Julia Wunderlich; Gautam Balasubramanian; Mica Haneman; Mikhail Korneev; Colette M. McKay
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Comparing patient-specific variations in intra-cochlea neural health estimated using psychophysical thresholds and panoramic electrically evoked compound action potentials (PECAPs)

2023-12-20 | Preprint
Contributors: Tommy Peng; Charlotte Garcia; Mica Haneman; Maureen Shader; Robert P. Carlyon; Colette McKay
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A reliable, accurate, and clinic-friendly objective test of speech sound detection and discrimination in sleeping infants

2023-06-20 | Preprint
Contributors: Colette McKay; Julia Wunderlich; Darren Mao; Gautam Balasubramanian; Onn Wah Lee; Demi Gao; Linty McDonald
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Connections between spatially distant primary language regions strengthen with age during infancy, as revealed by resting-state fNIRS

Journal of Neural Engineering
2023-02-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Ishara Paranawithana; Darren Mao; Colette M McKay; Yan T Wong
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Effects of degraded speech processing and binaural unmasking investigated using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS)

PLOS ONE
2022-04-25 | Journal article
Contributors: Xin Zhou; Andrew R Dykstra; Gabriel S. Sobczak; Colette M. McKay; Ruth Y. Litovsky
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Development of an Australian behavioural method for assessing listening task difficulty at high speech intelligibility levels

International Journal of Audiology
2022-02-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Carmen A. Carabali; Hamish Innes-Brown; Robert Luke; Søren Riis; Thomas Lunner; Colette M. McKay
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No Evidence That Music Training Benefits Speech Perception in Hearing-Impaired Listeners: A Systematic Review

Trends in Hearing
2021-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Colette M. McKay
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Comparing fNIRS signal qualities between approaches with and without short channels

PLOS ONE
2020-12-23 | Journal article
Contributors: Xin Zhou; Manabu Sakakibara; Gabriel Sobczak; Colette M. McKay; Ruth Y. Litovsky
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Objective measurement of tinnitus using functional near-infrared spectroscopy and machine learning

PLOS ONE
2020-11-18 | Journal article
Contributors: Mehrnaz Shoushtarian; Alberto Dalla Mora; Roohallah Alizadehsani; Abbas Khosravi; Nicola Acevedo; Colette M. McKay; Saeid Nahavandi; James B. Fallon
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Fully objective hearing threshold estimation in cochlear implant users using phase-locking value growth functions

Hearing Research
2019-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Darren Mao; Hamish Innes-Brown; Matthew A. Petoe; Yan T. Wong; Colette M. McKay
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Cortical auditory evoked potential time-frequency growth functions for fully objective hearing threshold estimation

Hearing Research
2018-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Darren Mao; Hamish Innes-Brown; Matthew A. Petoe; Yan T. Wong; Colette M. McKay
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The relation between ECAP measurements and the effect of rate on behavioral thresholds in cochlear implant users

Hearing Research
2017-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Colette M. McKay; Nicholas Smale
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Cortical auditory evoked potentials as an objective measure of behavioral thresholds in cochlear implant users

Hearing Research
2015-09 | Journal article
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Peer review (4 reviews for 2 publications/grants)

Review activity for Brain topography. (1)
Review activity for Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology. (3)