Toscano, J. C., & McMurray, B. (2012, October). Poster presented at the 164th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Kansas City, MO.
Abstract: A great deal of work in speech has argued that invariant acoustic cues do not exist, leading many researchers to conclude that listeners use specialized representations, such as talkers’ inferred gestures, instead... Read more →
Toscano, J. C., & McMurray, B. (2012). Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 74, 1284-1301.
Abstract: Listeners are able to accurately recognize speech despite variation in acoustic cues across contexts, such as different speaking rates. Previous work has suggested that listeners use rate information (indicated by vowel length; VL) to modify their use of context-dependent acoustic cues, like voice-onset time (VOT), a primary cue to voicing... Read more →
Toscano, J. C., & McMurray, B. (2012, January). Poster presented at the 6th Conference of the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Tucson, AZ.
Abstract:
To recognize speech, listeners must map continuous acoustic features in the sound signal onto discrete units (e.g., phonemes, words). An important question is whether speech sounds are initially encoded in terms of continuous cues or whether listeners perceive them only in terms of categories... Read more →
Toscano, J. C., & McMurray, B. (2011, November). Paper presented at the 10th Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Seattle WA.
Abstract: An important question in speech perception is whether listeners encode speech sounds in terms of continuous acoustic cues at early stages of processing or whether they perceive them only in terms of categories... Read more →
Toscano, J. C. (2011). Doctoral dissertation, University of Iowa.
Abstract:
Several fundamental questions about speech perception concern how listeners understand spoken language despite considerable variability in speech sounds across different contexts (the problem of lack of invariance in speech)... Read more →
Toscano, J. C., McMurray, B., Dennhardt, J., & Luck, S. J. (2010). Psychological Science, 21, 1532-1540.
Abstract: Speech sounds are highly variable, yet listeners readily extract information from them and transform continuous acoustic signals into meaningful categories during language comprehension. A central question is whether perceptual encoding captures acoustic detail in a one-to-one fashion or whether it is affected by phonological categories... Read more →
