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Asaridou, S. S., Dediu, D., Takashima, A., Hagoort, P., & McQueen, J. M. (2013). Learning Dutchinese: Functional, structural, and genetic correlates performance. Poster presented at the 3rd Latin American School for Education, Cognitive and Neural Sciences, Ilha de Comandatuba, Brazil.
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Lai, V. T., Kim, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2013). Sentential context modulates early phases of visual word recognition: Evidence from a training manipulation. Talk presented at the 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing [CUNY 2013]. Columbia, SC. 2013-03-21 - 2013-03-23.
Abstract
How does sentential context influence visual word recognition? Recent neural models suggest that single words are recognized via a hierarchy of local combination detectors [1]. Low-level features are extracted first by neurons in V1 in the visual cortex, features are then combined and fed into the higher level of letter
fragments in V2, and then letter shapes in V4, and so on. A recent EEG study examining word recognition in context has shown that contextually-driven anticipation can influence this hierarchy of visual word recognition early on [2]. Specifically, a minor mismatch between the predicted visual word form and the actual input (cake
vs. ceke) can elicit brain responses ~130 ms after word onset [2]. -
Poellmann, K., McQueen, J. M., Baayen, R. H., & Mitterer, H. (2013). Adaptation to reductions: Challenges of regional variation. Talk presented at the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen [TeaP 2013]. Vienna, Austria. 2013-03-24 - 2013-03-27.
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Viebahn, M., Ernestus, M., & McQueen, J. M. (2013). Syntactic predictability facilitates the recognition of words in connected speech. Talk presented at the 18th Meeting of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCOP). Budapest (Hungary). 2013-08-29 - 2013-09-01.
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Hanulikova, A., Davidson, D. J., McQueen, J. M., & Mitterer, H. (2008). Native and non-native segmentation of continuous speech. Poster presented at XXIX International Congress of Psychology [ICP 2008], Berlin.
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Reinisch, E., Jesse, A., & McQueen, J. M. (2008). Speaking rate affects the perception of word boundaries in online speech perception. Talk presented at 14th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2008). Cambridge, UK. 2008-09-04 - 2008-09-06.
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Sjerps, M. J., & McQueen, J. M. (2008). The role of speech-specific signal characteristics in vowel normalization. Poster presented at 156th Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Miami, FL.
Abstract
Listeners adjust their vowel perception to the characteristics of a particular speaker. Six experiments investigated whether speech-specific signal characteristics influence the occurrence and amount of such normalization. Previous findings were replicated with first formant (F1) manipulations of naturally recorded speech; target sounds on a [pIt] (low F1) to [pEt] (high F1) continuum were more often labeled as [pIt] after a precursor sentence with a high F1, and more often labeled as [pEt] after one with a low F1 (Exp. 1). Normalization was also observed, though to a lesser extent, when these materials were spectrally rotated, and hence sounded unlike speech (Exp. 2). No normalization occurred when, in addition to spectral rotation, the silent intervals and pitch-movement were removed and the syllables were temporally reversed (Exp. 3), despite spectral similarity of these precursors to those in Exp. 2. Reintroducing only pitch movement (Exp. 4), or silent intervals (Exp. 5), or spectrally-rotating the stimuli back (Exp. 6), did not result in normalization, so none of these factors alone accounts for the effect's disappearance in Exp. 3. These results show that normalization is not specific to speech, but still depends on more than the overall spectral properties of the preceding acoustic context.
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