Marquette Auditory Lab

New paper #3 (with undergrad star Dawson Stephens): Speaking rate normalization wasn't altered whether hearing 1 context sentence per trial or 2 (in both ears or opposite ears). As long as amplitude modulations were present, perception kept being shifted pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/articl…

New paper #2 (with @matt_with_ears): Spectral contrast effects in speech perception occur in different frequency regions, but their magnitudes are not correlated. There is strong consistency within-frequency, just not across-frequency pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/artic…

New paper #1 (with undergrad star Isabel Adames and Anya Shorey, Ph.D.): how perception of musical pitch and timbre is shaped by a wide range of timescales, spanning a few trials to one's lifetime. Four experiments, lots of analyses, and open access journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

Some users are here, some are on bluesky, some are elsewhere, so allow us to catch you up on 3 recent publications from the lab --

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Attendees of #ASA187: @AnyaShorey 's dissertation research is 🔥🔥🔥. It's going to revolutionize research on musical expectancy. Come see her talk Thursday afternoon (3pPP7) at 4:05pm eastern! @acousticsorg @ASA_JASA

Productivity tip: don't spill water all over your sole laptop. You're welcome.

We have moved and rebranded! The Auditory Perception and Processing Lab at the University of Louisville is now the Marquette Auditory Lab (@MUauditorylab) at @MarquetteU!

Next up for us at #ASA186: We will be speaking in the 4aPP session "Interactions Between Voice and Speech Perception". What role does the voice play in acoustic context effects? Come and find out!

Many thanks to all who came to see the poster and give feedback at #ASA186. A PDF copy is available here: louisville.edu/psychology/sti…

also #ASA186 (sorry, didn't know what the conference hashtag was!)

We are at #ASA in Ottawa! Our first presentation is Monday morning on how different timescales affect our sensitivity to the covariance between musical pitch and timbre (1aPP session). See you there!

h/t to Caleb King, Chloe Sharpe (E1 was her undergrad thesis!), and @AnyaShorey for all their hard work, and to @ASA_JASA for the opportunity to share our findings!

Finally, results didn’t hang together within an experiment (via correlations/PCA on TCE sizes). That can happen amidst high stimulus variability, but instructive going forward about how to view multiple results from each sample. 6/6

🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 Slow speech makes the next speech sound faster and vice versa. These temporal contrast effects (TCEs, or speaking rate normalization) are widely known, but how resilient are they to different types of variability? 1/6 pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/artic…

Our lab's current manuscript is very much this. Don't let a tidy conference poster fool you; there be dragons in the details: