Colette McKay

Reducing false discoveries in resting-state functional connectivity using short channel correction: an fNIRS study.

Ishara Paranawithana, Darren Mao, Yan T Wong, Colette M McKay

Journal article  |  2022  |  Neurophotonics

Significance: Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a neuroimaging tool that can measure resting-state functional conne..

Speech token detection and discrimination in individual infants using functional near-infrared spectroscopy

Darren Mao, Julia Wunderlich, Borislav Savkovic, Emily Jeffreys, Namita Nicholls, Onn Wah Lee, Michael Eager, Colette M McKay

Journal article  |  2021  |  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

Speech detection and discrimination ability are important measures of hearing ability that may inform crucial audiological interve..

Spectral features of cortical auditory evoked potentials inform hearing threshold and intensity percepts in acoustic and electric hearing

Darren Mao, Hamish Innes-Brown, Matthew A Petoe, Colette M McKay, Yan T Wong

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF NEURAL ENGINEERING

Objective. Stimulus-elicited changes in electroencephalography (EEG) recordings can be represented using Fourier magnitude and pha..

Development of an Australian behavioural method for assessing listening task difficulty at high speech intelligibility levels

Carmen A Carabali, Hamish Innes-Brown, Robert Luke, Soren Riis, Thomas Lunner, Colette M McKay

Journal article  |  2021  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AUDIOLOGY

OBJECTIVE: To develop and validate an Australian version of a behavioural test for assessing listening task difficulty at high spe..

The use of broad vs restricted regions of interest in functional near-infrared spectroscopy for measuring cortical activation to auditory-only and visual-only speech

Maureen J Shader, Robert Luke, Nathalie Gouailhardou, Colette M McKay

Journal article  |  2021  |  HEARING RESEARCH

As an alternative to fMRI, functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a relatively new tool for observing cortical activatio..

No Evidence That Music Training Benefits Speech Perception in Hearing-Impaired Listeners: A Systematic Review

Colette M McKay

Journal article  |  2021  |  TRENDS IN HEARING

As musicians have been shown to have a range of superior auditory skills to non-musicians (e.g., pitch discrimination ability), it..

Objective Tinnitus Measurement via fNIRS and Machine Learning

M Shoushtarian, R Alizadehsani, A Khosravi, N Acevedo, CM McKay, S Nahavandi, JB Fallon

Journal article  |  2021  |  The Hearing Journal

Interpreting the Effect of Stimulus Parameters on the Electrically Evoked Compound Action Potential and on Neural Health Estimates.

Tim Brochier, Colette M McKay, Robert P Carlyon

Journal article  |  2021  |  J Assoc Res Otolaryngol

Variations in the condition of the neural population along the length of the cochlea can degrade the spectral and temporal represe..

Applications of Phenomenological Loudness Models to Cochlear Implants

Colette M McKay

Journal article  |  2021  |  FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY

Cochlear implants electrically stimulate surviving auditory neurons in the cochlea to provide severely or profoundly deaf people w..

Comparing fNIRS signal qualities between approaches with and without short channels

Xin Zhou, Gabriel Sobczak, Colette M McKay, Ruth Y Litovsky

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLOS ONE

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a non-invasive technique used to measure changes in oxygenated (HbO) and deoxygen..