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PROF HUGH MCDERMOTT



Contact Details

Organization: Otolaryngology Eye and Ear Hospital
Position: CHAIR OF AUDITORY COMM & SIGNAL PROCESSING
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Work: (03) 90355341

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Key Words Country of Expertise
auditory communication and signal processing cochlear implants and hearing aids Australia, Switzerland, Western Europe, Northern America, Japan and the Koreas

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Bachelor of Applied Science University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1981
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-Dec-1988

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Senior Member Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Senior Member 30-Jun-2000

Fellowships

Fellowship Date Awarded
Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (FASA) 30-Jun-2002

Other Awards

Award Type Awarding Body Comments Date Awarded
Prize University of Texas at Dallas Callier Center First recipient of the Callier Prize in Communication Disorders 06-Mar-2009

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
Improved perception of complex sounds, particularly music, by users of cochlear implants Chief Investigator GARNETT PASSE & RODNEY WILLIAMS MEMORIAL FUND Senior/Principal Research Fellowships 01/06/2001
Improved perception of temporal information in electrical signals for profoundly deaf users of cochlear implants Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2002
Music Perception of Cochlear Implant Users Principal Supervisor NHMRC Dora Lush Biomedical Postgraduate Scholarship 01/01/2003
Individualized cochlear implant sound coding: Optimized algorithms for better hearing Chief Investigator AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL,
COCHLEAR LIMITED		 Linkage Projects (AUST RESEARCH COUNCIL) 01/01/2008

Contracts

Title Role Funding Source Award Date
FITTING AND ASSESSMENT OF AN EXPERIMENTAL HEARING INSTRUMENT Chief Investigator PHONAK AG 01/03/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Book Chapters

  • Cochlear Implants and Music
    Year: 2009
    Book: Hearing loss in musicians: Prevention and management
    Publisher: Plural Publishing(San Diego, CA)
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • The effect of cochlear implantation on music perception by adults with usable pre-operative acoustic hearing


    Year: 2008
    Journal: International Journal of Audiology
    Volume: 47
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 257-268
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  • Music perception of cochlear implant users compared with that of hearing aid users
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Ear and Hearing
    Volume: 29
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 421-434
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Speech processing for cochlear implants and bimodal stimulation
    Year: 2008
    Event name: 10th Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Audiologie (DGA) and 8th European Federation of Audiological Sciences (EFAS) Congress
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the joint 10th Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Audiologie (DGA) and 8th European Federation of Audiological Sciences (EFAS) Congress
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • A fundamental frequency estimator for the real-time processing of musical sounds for cochlear implants
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Speech Communication
    Volume: 49
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 113-122
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  • Comparisons of Quality Ratings for Music by Cochlear Implant and Hearing Aid Users
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Ear and Hearing
    Volume: 28
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 59s-61s
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  • Pitch ranking of complex tones by normally hearing subjects and cochlear implant users
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Hearing Research
    Volume: 218
    Issue: 1-2
    Page numbers: 81-88
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Frequency-compression outcomes in listeners with steeply sloping audiograms
    Year: 2006
    Journal: International Journal of Audiology
    Volume: 45
    Issue: 11
    Page numbers: 619-29
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  • Perceptual dissimilarities among acoustic stimuli
    and ipsilateral electric stimuli
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Hearing Research
    Volume: 218
    Issue: 1-2
    Page numbers: 81-88
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  • The effect of intensity pitch in electric hearing and its relationship to the speech perception performance of cochlear implantees
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Journal of the American Academy of Audiology
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 733-746
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  • The trainable hearing aid: What will it do for clients and clinicians?
    Year: 2006
    Journal: The Hearing Journal
    Volume: 59
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 29-36
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Major Reference Works

Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Benefits of audibility for listeners with severe high frequency hearing loss.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Ear and Hearing
    Volume: 210
    Page numbers: 42-52
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  • Improvements in speech perception with an experimental nonlinear frequency compression hearing device.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: International Journal of Audiology
    Volume: 44
    Page numbers: 281-292
    Publisher: BC Decker Inc(Hamilton)
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  • Perceiving melody remains challenging for implant wearers
    Year: 2005
    Journal: The Hearing Journal
    Volume: 58
    Page numbers: 65-74
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  • Pitch ranking ability of cochlear implant recipients: A comparison of sound-processing strategies.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
    Volume: 117
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 3126-3138
    Publisher: American Institute of Physics(New York)
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  • Speech perception with a cochlear implant sound processor incorporating loudness models.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Acoustics Research Letters Online
    Volume: 6
    Issue: 1
    Page numbers: 7-13
    Publisher: Acoustical Society of America(New York)
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  • The relationship between speech recognition and self-report measures when evaluating a high-powered digital hearing aid.
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Acoustics Australia
    Volume: 33
    Page numbers: 57-62
    Publisher: Cronulla Printing Co(Cronulla)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Recent advances in compensating for severe high-frequency hearing impairment
    Year: 2005
    Event name: The 21st Danavox Symposium on Hearing Aid Fitting
    Conference Publication: The 21st Danavox Symposium on Hearing Aid Fitting
    Page numbers: 16
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • An advanced sound processing system for hearing aid research
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Iranian Journal of Audiology
    Volume: 3
    Page numbers: 75-78
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  • Music perception with cochlear implants: a review
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Trends in Amplification
    Volume: 8
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 49-82
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  • Perception of complex signals, including musical sounds, with cochlear implants
    Year: 2004
    Journal: International Congress Series
    Volume: 1273
    Page numbers: 201-204
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  • Pitch discrimination and melody recognition by cochlear implant users
    Year: 2004
    Journal: International Congress Series
    Volume: 1273
    Page numbers: 197-200
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Application of loudness models to sound processing for cochlear implants
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
    Volume: 114
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 2190-2197
    Publisher: American Institute of Physics(New York)
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  • Melodies familiar to the Australian population across a range of hearing abilities
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Audiology
    Volume: 25
    Page numbers: 75-83
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  • a practical method of predicting the loudness of complex electical stimuli
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
    Volume: 113
    Page numbers: 2054-2063
    Publisher: American Institute of Physics(New York)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Speech intelligibility with a cochlear implant sound-processing scheme based on loudness models
    Year: 2003
    Event name: International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
    Conference Publication: proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
    Page numbers: 2006-09
    Publisher: IEEE Press(New Jersey)
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Publications in 2002

Journal Articles

  • Benefits of input compression for users of cochlear implants
    Year: 2002
    Journal: Journal of the American Academy of Audiology
    Volume: 13
    Page numbers: 14-24
    Publisher: BC Decker Inc(Ontario)
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Musical timbre perception with cochlear implants: investigations using forward masking
    Year: 2002
    Event name: 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition
    Page numbers: 604-07
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  • New fundamental frequency estimators for cochlear implants
    Year: 2002
    Event name: Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 9th Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology
    Page numbers: 100-105
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Publications in 2001

Journal Articles

  • Loudness summation for pulsatile electrical stimulation of the cochlea: Effects of rate, electrode separation, level, and mode of stimulation
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
    Volume: 110
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 1514-1524
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  • Preliminary results with the AVR Impact frequency-transposing hearing aid
    Year: 2001
    Journal: Journal of the American Academy of Audiology
    Volume: 12
    Page numbers: 121-127
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • A High Performance Digital Hearing Aid for Advanced Sound Processing Research
    Year: 2001
    Event name: Biomedical Research in 2001
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Conference
    Page numbers: 1-4
    Publisher: Monash University Press(Melbourne)
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  • Interfacing electronic circuits to neural systems,” Tutorial Short Course on Biomedical Electronics
    Year: 2001
    Event name: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
    Conference Publication: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems
    Page numbers: 1.4.1-1.4.5
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