Search Results - "Blumstein, Sheila E"

Sequences in harmony: Cognitive interactions between musical and visual narrative structure by Patrick, Morgan T., Cohn, Neil, Mertus, John, Blumstein, Sheila E.

“…From film and television to graphic storytelling, tonal music can accompany visual narratives in a variety of contexts. The apprehension of both musical and…”
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Inferior Frontal Regions Underlie the Perception of Phonetic Category Invariance by Myers, Emily B., Blumstein, Sheila E., Walsh, Edward, Eliassen, James

“…The problem of mapping differing sensory stimuli onto a common category is fundamental to human cognition. Listeners perceive stable phonetic categories…”
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Phonological neighborhood competition affects spoken word production irrespective of sentential context by Fox, Neal P., Reilly, Megan, Blumstein, Sheila E.

“…•VOT hyperarticulation driven by neighborhood density, not specific voicing competitors.•Contextual predictability affects VOTs of words produced in…”
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An event-related FMRI investigation of implicit semantic priming by Rissman, Jesse, Eliassen, James C, Blumstein, Sheila E

“…The neural basis underlying implicit semantic priming was investigated using event-related fMRI. Prime-target pairs were presented auditorily for lexical…”
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The perception of voice onset time: an fMRI investigation of phonetic category structure by Blumstein, Sheila E, Myers, Emily B, Rissman, Jesse

“…This study explored the neural systems underlying the perception of phonetic category structure by investigating the perception of a voice onset time (VOT)…”
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The role of segmentation in phonological processing: an fMRI investigation by Burton, M W, Small, S L, Blumstein, S E

“…Phonological processes map sound information onto higher levels of language processing and provide the mechanisms by which verbal information can be…”
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The role of the left inferior frontal gyrus in implicit semantic competition and selection: An event-related fMRI study by Grindrod, Christopher M, Bilenko, Natalia Y, Myers, Emily B, Blumstein, Sheila E

“…Abstract Recent research suggests that the left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) plays a role in selecting semantic information from among competing alternatives…”
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Temporal integration in vowel perception by Wallace, Andrew B., Blumstein, Sheila E.

“…Psychoacoustic research suggests that multiple auditory channels process incoming sounds over temporal windows of different durations, resulting in multiple…”
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Distinctive semantic features in the healthy adult brain by Reilly, Megan, Machado, Natalya, Blumstein, Sheila E.

“…The role of semantic features, which are distinctive (e.g., a zebra’s stripes) or shared (e.g. has four legs) for accessing a concept, has been studied in…”
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Temporal cortex reflects effects of sentence context on phonetic processing by Guediche, Sara, Salvata, Caden, Blumstein, Sheila E

“…Listeners' perception of acoustically presented speech is constrained by many different sources of information that arise from other sensory modalities and…”
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Phonetic basis of phonemic paraphasias in aphasia: Evidence for cascading activation by Kurowski, Kathleen, Blumstein, Sheila E.

“…Phonemic paraphasias are a common presenting symptom in aphasia and are thought to reflect a deficit in which selecting an incorrect phonemic segment results…”
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Written sentence context effects on acoustic-phonetic perception: fMRI reveals cross-modal semantic-perceptual interactions by Guediche, Sara, Zhu, Yuli, Minicucci, Domenic, Blumstein, Sheila E.

“…•Semantic bias of a written sentence context influences acoustic-phonetic perception.•Crossmodal semantic phonetic integration found in ventral language…”
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Neural substrates of subphonemic variation and lexical competition in spoken word recognition by Luthra, Sahil, Guediche, Sara, Blumstein, Sheila E., Myers, Emily B.

“…In spoken word recognition, subphonemic variation influences lexical activation, with sounds near a category boundary increasing phonetic competition as well…”
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Speaker information affects false recognition of unstudied lexical-semantic associates by Luthra, Sahil, Fox, Neal P., Blumstein, Sheila E.

“…Recognition of and memory for a spoken word can be facilitated by a prior presentation of that word spoken by the same talker. However, it is less clear…”
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Dynamic Functional Organization of Language: Insights From Functional Neuroimaging by Blumstein, Sheila E., Amso, Dima

“…One of the oldest questions in cognitive science is whether cognitive operations are modular or distributed across domains. We propose that fMRI has made a…”
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Brain-behavior relationships in incidental learning of non-native phonetic categories by Luthra, Sahil, Fuhrmeister, Pamela, Molfese, Peter J., Guediche, Sara, Blumstein, Sheila E., Myers, Emily B.

“…•Incidental paradigms show promise in promoting non-native speech sound learning.•Subjects completed fMRI sessions before and after incidental learning…”
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Theories of spoken word recognition deficits in Aphasia: Evidence from eye-tracking and computational modeling by Mirman, Daniel, Yee, Eiling, Blumstein, Sheila E., Magnuson, James S.

“…► Broca’s aphasic participants showed larger rhyme competition effects than controls. ► Wernicke’s aphasic participants had larger cohort competition effects…”
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Attention modulates specificity effects in spoken word recognition: Challenges to the time-course hypothesis by Theodore, Rachel M., Blumstein, Sheila E., Luthra, Sahil

“…Findings in the domain of spoken word recognition have indicated that lexical representations contain both abstract and episodic information. It has been…”
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Top-down effects of syntactic sentential context on phonetic processing by Fox, Neal P, Blumstein, Sheila E

“…Although much evidence suggests that the identification of phonetically ambiguous target words can be biased by preceding sentential context, interactive and…”
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What you see isn’t always what you get: Auditory word signals trump consciously perceived words in lexical access by Ostrand, Rachel, Blumstein, Sheila E., Ferreira, Victor S., Morgan, James L.

“…•Face-to-face speech involves both auditory and visual components.•We test when auditory–visual integration occurs relative to lexical access.•Lexical access…”
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