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Overview

Bob McMurray is affiliated with the University of Iowa in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the intersection of psychology and neuroscience, with significant contributions to the understanding of hearing loss, language development, and cognitive processing.

The scientist's main fields of study include Psychology and Neuroscience. Within these, key subfields encompass Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Signal Processing, and Artificial Intelligence.

The topics extensively covered in their work are:

  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Phonetics and Phonology Research
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Multisensory perception and integration
  • Speech and Audio Processing

Bob McMurray has published numerous articles, with recent papers including:

  • "The myth of categorical perception," 2022, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • "The pictures who shall not be named: Empirical support for benefits of preview in the Visual World Paradigm," 2021, Journal of Memory and Language
  • "Gradient activation of speech categories facilitates listeners' recovery from lexical garden paths, but not perception of speech-in-noise," 2021, Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
  • "How Can Hearing Loss Cause Dementia?," 2020, Neuron
  • "Dynamic EEG analysis during language comprehension reveals interactive cascades between perceptual processing and sentential expectations," 2020, Brain and Language

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Language Cognition and Neuroscience
  • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
  • Ear and Hearing
  • Nature Communications

Collaborations form an important part of their research, with frequent co-authors being:

  • Inyong Choi
  • Timothy D. Griffiths
  • Joel I. Berger
  • Ethan Kutlu
  • Phillip E. Gander

Best Publications

  • Gradient effects of within-category phonetic variation on lexical access.

    Bob McMurray;Michael K. Tanenhaus;Richard N. Aslin

  • Word learning emerges from the interaction of online referent selection and slow associative learning.

    Bob McMurray;Jessica S. Horst;Larissa K. Samuelson

  • Speaker Variability Augments Phonological Processing in Early Word Learning.

    Gwyneth C. Rost;Bob McMurray

  • What information is necessary for speech categorization? Harnessing variability in the speech signal by integrating cues computed relative to expectations

    Bob McMurray;Allard Jongman

  • Defusing the Childhood Vocabulary Explosion

    Bob McMurray

  • Within-category VOT affects recovery from “lexical” garden-paths: Evidence against phoneme-level inhibition

    Bob McMurray;Michael K. Tanenhaus;Richard N. Aslin

  • Individual Differences in Online Spoken Word Recognition: Implications for SLI.

    Bob McMurray;Vicki M. Samelson;Sung Hee Lee;J. Bruce Tomblin

  • How Can Hearing Loss Cause Dementia

    Timothy D. Griffiths;Timothy D. Griffiths;Timothy D. Griffiths;Meher Lad;Sukhbinder Kumar;Emma Holmes

  • Cue integration with categories: Weighting acoustic cues in speech using unsupervised learning and distributional statistics.

    Joseph C. Toscano;Bob McMurray

  • Short arms and talking eggs: Why we should no longer abide the nativist-empiricist debate

    John P. Spencer;Mark S. Blumberg;Bob McMurray;Scott R. Robinson

  • Infant directed speech and the development of speech perception: Enhancing development or an unintended consequence?

    Bob McMurray;Kristine A. Kovack-Lesh;Dresden Goodwin;William McEchron

  • Statistical learning of phonetic categories: insights from a computational approach.

    Bob McMurray;Richard N. Aslin;Joseph C. Toscano

  • Longitudinal speech perception and language performance in pediatric cochlear implant users: the effect of age at implantation.

    Camille C Dunn;Elizabeth A Walker;Jacob Oleson;Maura Kenworthy

  • Continuous Perception and Graded Categorization Electrophysiological Evidence for a Linear Relationship Between the Acoustic Signal and Perceptual Encoding of Speech

    Joseph C. Toscano;Bob McMurray;Joel Dennhardt;Joel Dennhardt;Steven J. Luck

  • Finding the signal by adding noise: The role of noncontrastive phonetic variability in early word learning

    Gwyneth C. Rost;Bob McMurray

  • Unmasking the acoustic effects of vowel-to-vowel coarticulation: A statistical modeling approach

    Jennifer Cole;Gary Linebaugh;Cheyenne Munson;Bob McMurray

  • Gradient sensitivity to within-category variation in words and syllables

    Bob McMurray;Richard N. Aslin;Michael K. Tanenhaus;Michael J. Spivey

  • Infants Are Sensitive to Within-Category Variation in Speech Perception.

    Bob McMurray;Richard N. Aslin

  • Rate effects on Swedish VOT : Evidence for phonological overspecification

    Jill Beckman;Pétur Helgason;Bob McMurray;Catherine Ringen

  • Lexical effects on compensation for coarticulation: the ghost of Christmash past

    James S. Magnuson;Bob McMurray;Michael K. Tanenhaus;Richard N. Aslin

  • Anticipatory Eye Movements Reveal Infants' Auditory and Visual Categories

    Bob McMurray;Richard N. Aslin

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard N. Aslin
Richard N. Aslin Yale University
Michael K. Tanenhaus
Michael K. Tanenhaus University of Rochester
Eliot Hazeltine
Eliot Hazeltine University of Iowa
James S. Magnuson
James S. Magnuson University of Connecticut
Edward A. Wasserman
Edward A. Wasserman University of Iowa
Steven J. Luck
Steven J. Luck University of California, Davis
Lisa M. Oakes
Lisa M. Oakes University of California, Davis
John P. Spencer
John P. Spencer University of East Anglia
Michael J. Spivey
Michael J. Spivey University of California, Merced
M. Gareth Gaskell
M. Gareth Gaskell University of York

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