Refereed publications

• Toscano, J.C., Anderson, N.D., & McMurray ,B. (in press). Reconsidering the role of temporal order in spoken word recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.
• Toscano, J.C., & McMurray, B. (2012). Cue-integration and context effects in speech: Evidence against speaking-rate normalization. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 74, 1284-1301.
• Toscano, J.C., McMurray, B., Dennhardt, J., & Luck, S.J. (2010). Continuous perception and graded categorization: Electrophysiological evidence for a linear relationship between the acoustic signal and perceptual encoding of speech. Psychological Science, 21, 1532-1540.
• Toscano, J.C., & McMurray, B. (2010). Cue integration with categories: Weighting acoustic cues in speech using unsupervised learning and distributional statistics. Cognitive Science, 34, 434-464.
• McMurray, B., Aslin, R.N., & Toscano, J.C. (2009). Statistical learning of phonetic categories: Insights from a computational approach. Developmental Science, 12, 369-378.
• Toscano, J.C., Perry, L.K., Mueller, K.L., Bean, A.F., Galle, M.E., & Samuelson, L.K. (2008). Language as shaped by the brain; the brain as shaped by development. Commentary on Christiansen & Chater, “Language as shaped by the brain”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 535-536.

Book chapters

• Toscano, J.C., Buxó-Lugo, A., & Watson, D.G. (forthcoming). Using game-based approaches to increase level of engagement in research and education. In S. Dikkers (Ed.), TeacherCraft: Using Minecraft for Teaching and Learning. Pittsburgh: ETC Press.
• McMurray, B., Horst, J., Toscano, J.C., & Samuelson, L.K. (2009). Towards an integration of connectionist learning and dynamical systems processing: Case studies in speech and lexical development. In J.P. Spencer, M. Thomas, & J. McClelland (Eds.), Toward a Unified Theory of Development: Connectionism and Dynamic Systems Theory Re-Considered. Oxford University Press.

Conference proceedings

• Toscano, J.C., Mueller, K.L, McMurray, B., & Tomblin, J.B. (2010). Simulating individual differences in language ability and genetic differences in FOXP2 using a neural network model of the SRT task. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone, Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2230-2235). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
• Toscano, J.C. & McMurray, B. (2008). Using the distributional statistics of speech sounds for weighting and integrating acoustic cues. In B.C. Love, K. McRae, & V.M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 433-438). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Other publications, technical reports, and manuscripts

• Toscano, J.C. (2011). Perceiving speech in context: Compensation for contextual variability at the level of acoustic cue encoding and categorization. Doctoral dissertation, University of Iowa.
• Toscano, J.C. (2005). Effect of object salience on eye movements in a visual-linguistic task. Honors thesis for the B.S. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester.
• Toscano, J.C., & Beutter, B.R. (2005). Performance during visual search: Designing spacecraft with humans in mind. University of Rochester Journal of Undergraduate Research, 3, 8-12.
• Toscano, J.C. (2004). Effect of salience on saccadic performance during visual search. Technical report for NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program.

Presentations

Invited presentations and colloquia

• Toscano, J.C. (2013, May). Computing the reliability of acoustic information in speech. Invited talk presented at the Dept. of Linguistics, Northwestern University.
• Toscano, J.C. (2013, April). Acquiring and adapting phonetic categories in a computational model of speech perception. Invited paper presented at the Workshop on Current Issues and Methods in Speaker Adaptation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. 
• Toscano, J.C. (2013, February). A common mechanism for the acquisition of phonetic categories during development and perceptual learning in adulthood. Invited talk presented at the Dept. of Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.
• Toscano, J.C. (2005, November). Category acquisition through statistical learning using a mixture of Gaussians model. Invited talk presented at the University of Rochester Speech Group, Rochester NY.

Conference symposia

• McMurray, B., & Toscano, J.C. (2012, October). The consequences of lexical sensitivity to fine grained detail: Solving the problems of integrating cues and processing speech in time. In A. Jongman and J. Sereno (Chairs), The nature of lexical representations in the perception and production of speech. Symposium presented at the 164th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Kansas City, MO.
• McMurray, B., Apfelbaum, K.S., Toscano, J.C., & Samuelson, L.K. (2010, March). Something old and something new: Word learning as the interaction of statistical association and dynamic competition. In C. Yu (Chair), Modeling statistical word learning. Symposium presented at the 2010 International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.

Other presentations

• Toscano, J.C., Trevino, A., & Allen, J.B. (2013, October). Assessing the assessment: Measuring listeners’ speech recognition errors for specific consonants and tokens. Poster to be presented at the 2013 Aging and Speech Communication Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
• Buxó-Lugo, A., Toscano, J.C., & Watson, D.G. (2013, March). Task effects on prosodic prominence. Paper presented at the 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing.
• Toscano, J.C., & McMurray, B. (2012, November). Combining cues to recognize speech: Acoustic measurements of phonetic cues to word-medial voicing. Poster presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN.
• Toscano, J.C., & McMurray, B. (2012, November). An approach for manipulating the perceived gender of a talker’s voice for studies of indexical effects in speech perception. Paper presented at the 11th Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.
• Toscano, J.C., & McMurray, B. (2012, October). Perception of continuous acoustic cues in speech revealed by the auditory N1 and P3 ERP components. Poster presented at the 2012 Neurobiology of Language Conference, San Sebastian, Spain.
• Toscano, J.C., & McMurray, B. (2012, October). Voicing in English revisited: Measurement of acoustic features signaling word-medial voicing in trochees. Poster presented at the 164th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Kansas City, MO.
• Toscano, J.C., & McMurray, B. (2012, January). Measuring perceptual encoding and categorization of speech sounds using an ERP approach. Poster presented at the 6th Conference of the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Tucson, AZ.
• Toscano, J.C., & McMurray, B. (2011, November). Measuring acoustic cue encoding and categorization during speech processing using the auditory N1 and P3 ERP components. Paper presented at the 10th Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Seattle WA.
• Toscano, J.C., Anderson, N.D., & McMurray, B. (2011, November). The role of time in spoken word recognition: Evidence against temporal order in lexical representations. Poster presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA.
• Toscano, J.C., Anderson, N.D., & McMurray, B. (2011, October). The role of phoneme order and phonetic detail in spoken word recognition. Paper presented at the 17th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference, Urbana, IL.
• Clayards, M. & Toscano, J.C. (2010, August). Modeling age of exposure in L2 learning of vowel categories. Poster presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Portland, OR.
• Toscano, J.C., McMurray, B., Luck, S.J., & Dennhardt, J. (2009, April). Listeners’ sensitivity to acoustic detail in speech at the level of both early encoding and categorization. Poster presented at the 15th International Congress on Event-Related Potentials of the Brain, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
• Toscano, J.C. & McMurray, B. (2008, November). Online processing of acoustic cues in speech perception: Comparing statistical and neural network models. Poster presented at the 156th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Miami, FL.
• Toscano, J.C. & McMurray, B. (2008, October). Perception of voicing is graded all the way down: Evidence from electrophysiology. Talk presented at the 14th Midcontinental Workshop on Phonology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
• Toscano, J.C., Galle, M.E., and McMurray, B. (2007, October). Learning positional variation and place of articulation in stop consonants from the distributional statistics of acoustic cues. Poster presented at the 13th Midcontinental Workshop on Phonology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
• Toscano, J.C. and McMurray, B. (2007, October). Integrating acoustic cues to phonetic features: A computational approach to cue weighting. Poster presented at Where Do Features Come From? Phonological Primitives in the Brain, the Mouth, and the Ear. Paris, France.
• Toscano, J.C. and McMurray, B. (2007, March). Taking statistical learning to the next level: A computational approach to the acquisition of multi-dimensional categories. Poster presented at the 2007 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.
• Toscano, J.C. and McMurray, B. (2006, October). Acoustic cue integration in natural speech: Empirical and computational results. Talk presented at the 12th Midcontinental Workshop on Phonology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
• Toscano, J.C. and McMurray, B. (2006, June). A lexical locus for the integration of asynchronous cues to voicing: An investigation with natural stimuli. Poster presented at the 151st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Providence, RI.
• Dennhardt, J., McMurray, B., Luck, S.J., and Toscano, J.C. (2006, June). Gradient effects of continuous acoustic detail revealed in event-related potentials. Poster presented at the 151st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Providence, RI.
• Toscano, J.C. and McMurray, B. (2005, November). Statistical learning, cross-linguistic constraints, and the acquisition of speech categories: a computational approach. Talk presented at the 11th Midcontinental Workshop on Phonology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
• Beutter, B.R., Toscano, J.C., and Stone, L.S. (2005, May). Top-down and bottom-up influences on saccades in a visual search task. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.