Browsing BCBL by Author "Magnuson, James S."
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Breaking Down the Bilingual Cost in Speech Production
Sadat, Jasmin; Martin, Clara D.; Magnuson, James S.; Alario, Françoi-Xabier; Costa, Albert (Cognitive Science, 2016)Bilinguals have been shown to perform worse than monolinguals in a variety of verbal tasks. This study investigated this bilingual verbal cost in a large-scale picture-naming study conducted in Spanish. We explored how ... -
Contra assertions, feedback improves word recognition: How feedback and lateral inhibition sharpen signals over noise
Magnuson, James S.; Crinnion, Anne Marie; Luthra, Sahil; Gaston, Phoebe; Grubb, Samantha (ELSEVIER, 2024)Whether top-down feedback modulates perception has deep implications for cognitive theories. Debate has been vigorous in the domain of spoken word recognition, where competing computational models and agreement on at least ... -
Do They Know It's Christmash? Lexical Knowledge Directly Impacts Speech Perception
Crinnion, Anne Marie; Saltzman, David; Magnuson, James S. (WILEY, 2024)We recently reported strong, replicable (i.e., replicated) evidence for lexically mediated compensa-tion for coarticulation (LCfC; Luthra et al., 2021), whereby lexical knowledge influences a prelexicalprocess. Critically, ... -
Does signal reduction imply predictive coding in models of spoken word recognition?
Luthra, Sahil; Li, Monica Y. C.; You, Heejo; Brodbeck, Christian; Magnuson, James S. (Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2021)Pervasive behavioral and neural evidence for predictive processing has led to claims that language processing depends upon predictive coding. Formally, predictive coding is a computational mechanism where only deviations ... -
Investigating the Extent to which Distributional Semantic Models Capture a Broad Range of Semantic Relations
Brown, Kevin S.; Yee, Eiling; Joergensen, Gitte; Troyer, Melissa; Saltzman, Elliot; Rueckl, Jay; Magnuson, James S.; McRae, Ken (WILEY, 2023)Distributional semantic models (DSMs) are a primary method for distilling semantic information from corpora. However, a key question remains: What types of semantic relations among words do DSMs detect? Prior work typically ... -
LexFindR: A fast, simple, and extensible R package for finding similar words in a lexicon
Li, ZhaoBin; Crinnion, Anne Marie; Magnuson, James S. (SPRINGER, 2022)Language scientists often need to generate lists of related words, such as potential competitors. Theymay do this for purposes of experimental control (e.g., selecting items matched on lexical neighborhood but varying in ... -
Lexical Feedback in the Time-Invariant String Kernel (TISK) Model of Spoken Word Recognition
Magnuson, James S.; You, Heejo; Hannagan, Thomas (UBIQUITY PRESS, 2024)The Time-Invariant String Kernel (TISK) model of spoken word recognition (Hannagan, Magnuson & Grainger, 2013; You & Magnuson, 2018) is an interactive activation model with many similarities to TRACE (McClelland & Elman, ... -
Listener expectations and the perceptual accommodation of talker variability: A pre-registered replication
Luthra, Sahil; Saltzman, David; Myers, Emily B.; Magnuson, James S. (Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2021)Researchers have hypothesized that in order to accommodate variability in how talkers produce their speech sounds, listeners must perform a process of talker normalization. Consistent with this proposal, several studies ... -
Resolving competing predictions in speech: How qualitatively different cues and cue reliability contribute to phoneme identification
Crinnion, Anne Marie; Luthra, Sahil; Gaston, Phoebe; Magnuson, James S. (SPRINGER NATURE, 2024)Listeners have many sources of information available in interpreting speech. Numerous theoretical frameworks and paradigms have established that various constraints impact the processing of speech sounds, but it remains ... -
Right Posterior Temporal Cortex Supports Integration of Phonetic and Talker Information
Luthra, Sahil; Magnuson, James S.; Myers, Emily B. (MIT PRESS, 2023)Though the right hemisphere has been implicated in talker processing, it is thought to play a minimal role in phonetic processing, at least relative to the left hemisphere. Recent evidence suggests that the right posterior ... -
Robust Lexically Mediated Compensation for Coarticulation: Christmash Time Is Here Again
Luthra, Sahil; Peraza-Santiago, Giovanni; Beeson, Keia’na; Saltzman, David; Crinnion, Anne Marie; Magnuson, James S. (Cognitive Science, 2021)A long-standing question in cognitive science is how high-level knowledge is integrated with sensory input. For example, listeners can leverage lexical knowledge to interpret an ambiguous speech sound, but do such effects ... -
Spoken Word Recognition: A Focus on Plasticity
Kapnoula, Efthymia C.; Jevtović, Mina; Magnuson, James S. (Annual Reviews, 2024)Psycholinguists define spoken word recognition (SWR) as, roughly, the processes intervening between speech perception and sentence processing, whereby a sequence of speech elements is mapped to a phonological wordform. ... -
Using TMS to evaluate a causal role for right posterior temporal cortex in talker-specific phonetic processing
Luthra, Sahil; Mechtenberg, Hannah; Giorio, Cristal; Theodore, Rachel M.; Magnuson, James S.; Myers, Emily B. (ELSEVIER, 2023)Theories suggest that speech perception is informed by listeners’ beliefs of what phonetic variation is typical of a talker. A previous fMRI study found right middle temporal gyrus (RMTG) sensitivity to whether a phonetic ...