Faculty/Staff


Ying-Yee Kong


Assistant Professor

Education
·Post-doctoral Researcher, Medical Research Council, Cambridge, UK
·Ph.D., Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine
·M.A., Audiology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
·M.A., Linguistics, University of Washington, Seattle
·B.A. with first degree honor, Chinese Language and Literature, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Certification
·American Speech-Language Hearing Association, CCC-A

 


Office: 104 Forsyth (post-stop 106A Forsyth)
Voice: 617-373-3704
Fax: 617-373-2239
Email: yykong@neu.edu


Scholarly Interests
· Cochlear implants
· Psychophysics
· Binaural hearing
· Auditory neuropathy
· Speech production and perception


Bio
Dr. Kong directs the Auditory Prostheses and Communication Laboratory.
Her research focus is auditory perception in hearing-impaired and cochlear-implant listeners. She is currently investigating how cochlear-implant listeners are able to benefit from additional low-frequency residual hearing.

Select Publications

Singh, S., Kong, Y.-Y., and Zeng, F.-G. (In review). "Cochlear implant melody recognition as a function of melody frequency range and number of electrodes."

Kong, Y.-Y., and Carlyon, R.P. (in press). "Improved speech recognition in noise in simulated binaurally combined acoustic and electric stimulation," Journal of Acoustical Society of America.

Kong, Y.-Y. and Zeng, F.-G. (2006). "Temporal and spectral cues in Mandarin tone recognition," Journal of Acoustical Society of America 120, 2830-2840.

Kong, Y.-Y. and Zeng, F.-G. (2006). "Mandarin tone recognition in acoustic and electric hearing," Cochlear Implant International 5, 175-177.

Kong, Y.-Y., Stickney, G.S., and Zeng, F.-G. (2005). "Speech and melody recognition in binaurally combined acoustic and electric hearing," Journal of Acoustical Society of America 117, 1351-1361.

Michalewski, H.J., Starr, A., Nguyen, T.T., Kong, Y.-Y., Zeng, F.-G. (2005). "Auditory temporal processes in normal-hearing individuals and in patients with auditory neuropathy," Clinical Neurophysiology 116, 669-680.

Zeng, F.-G., Kong, Y.-Y., Michalewski, H.J., and Starr, A. (2005). "Perceptual consequences of disrupted auditory nerve activities," Journal of Neurophysiology 93, 3050-3063.

Zeng, F.-G., Nie, K., Stickney, G.S., Kong, Y.-Y., Vongphoe, M., Bhargave, A., Wei, C., and Cao, K. (2005). "Speech recognition with amplitude and frequency modulations," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102, 2293-2298.

Doyle, K.J., Kong, Y.-Y., Strobel, K., Dallaire, P., and Ray, R.M. (2004). "Neonatal middle ear effusion predicts chronic otitis media with effusion," Otology and Neurotology 25, 318-322.

Kong, Y.-Y., Cruz, R., Jones, J.A., and Zeng, F.-G. (2004). "Music perception with temporal cues in acoustic and electric hearing," Ear and Hearing 25, 173-185.

Starr, A., Isaacson, B., Michalewski, H.J., Zeng, F.-G., Kong, Y.-Y., Beal, P., Paulson, G.W., Keats, B.J.B., and Lesperance, M.M. (2004). "A dominantly inherited progressive deafness affecting distal auditory nerve and hair cells," Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology 5, 411-426.

Stickney, G.S., Nie, K., Kong, Y.-Y., Chen, H., and Zeng, F.-G. (2004). "Temporal fine structure: The missing component in speech processing algorithms," International Congress Series - Cochlear Implants 1273, 23-26.

Zeng, F-G., Nie, K., Liu, S., Stickney, G.S., Del Rio, E., Kong, Y.-Y., and Chen, H. (2004). "On the dichotomy in auditory perception between temporal envelope and fine structure cues," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 116, 1351-1354.

Wojtczak, M., Schroder, A.C., Kong, Y.-Y., and Nelson D.A. (2001). "The effect of basilar-membrane nonlinearity on the shapes of masking period patterns in normal and impaired hearing," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 109, 1571-1586.


 


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