Dr Elaine Kearney
Faculty of Health,
School of Psychology & Counselling
Biography
Dr Elaine Kearney is a postdoctoral research fellow in the LCBS lab, under the supervision of Prof Greig de Zubicaray and Prof Katie McMahon. Elaine completed her PhD in Speech-Language Pathology at the University of Toronto (Canada) and postdoctoral training in speech neuroscience at Boston University (USA). Her research focuses on the sensorimotor control of speech production in individuals with neurological disorders, asking questions such as: How do we use auditory feedback when we speak, and how does that change with neurological diagnoses like Parkinson’s disease? Elaine uses a range of behavioural, computational modelling, and neuroimaging techniques to answer these questions and further uncover the brain mechanisms underlying communication. In the lab, Elaine is working on a lesion-symptom mapping study investigating links between brain tumours and language impairment.Personal details
Positions
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Health,
School of Psychology & Counselling
Keywords
speech science, motor control, motor speech disorders, neural basis of language
Qualifications
- PhD Speech-Language Pathology (University of Toronto)
- BSc Speech and Language Therapy (University College Cork(UCC))
Professional memberships and associations
Society for the Neurobiology of Language
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Elaine, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).