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Overview

Howard C. Nusbaum is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research spans several fields, primarily focusing on neuroscience and psychology. Within these disciplines, Nusbaum's work is especially concentrated in cognitive neuroscience, with additional contributions to experimental and cognitive psychology, applied psychology, social psychology, and psychiatry and mental health.

Nusbaum's research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Neuroscience and Music Perception
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Free Will and Agency
  • Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation

The scientist has published papers in various prominent venues. Some of the frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Neuroscience
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • eLife

Recent published papers by Howard C. Nusbaum include the following:

  • The Science of Wisdom in a Polarized World: Knowns and Unknowns, 2020, Psychological Inquiry
  • Talker familiarity and the accommodation of talker variability, 2021, Attention Perception & Psychophysics
  • Measuring Cities with Software-Defined Sensors, 2020, Journal of Social Computing
  • Individual differences in human frequency-following response predict pitch labeling ability, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Emotional intelligence predicts wise reasoning, 2021, The Journal of Positive Psychology

Nusbaum frequently collaborates with several co-authors, among them are:

  • John P. Veillette
  • Shannon L. M. Heald
  • Katherine Reis
  • Stephen C. Van Hedger
  • Pedro Lopes

Best Publications

  • Explaining Math: Gesturing Lightens the Load

    Susan Goldin-Meadow;Howard Nusbaum;Spencer D. Kelly;Susan Wagner

  • Recursive syntactic pattern learning by songbirds.

    Timothy Q. Gentner;Kimberly M. Fenn;Daniel Margoliash;Howard C. Nusbaum

  • Consolidation during sleep of perceptual learning of spoken language

    Kimberly M. Fenn;Howard C. Nusbaum;Daniel Margoliash

  • What Are You Feeling? Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Assess the Modulation of Sensory and Affective Responses during Empathy for Pain

    Claus Lamm;Howard C. Nusbaum;Andrew N. Meltzoff;Jean Decety

  • Hearing Lips and Seeing Voices: How Cortical Areas Supporting Speech Production Mediate Audiovisual Speech Perception

    Jeremy I. Skipper;Virginie van Wassenhove;Howard C. Nusbaum;Steven L. Small

  • Offering a Hand to Pragmatic Understanding: The Role of Speech and Gesture in Comprehension and Memory

    Spencer D. Kelly;Dale J. Barr;R.Breckinridge Church;Katheryn Lynch

  • Sizing up the Hoosier Mental Lexicon: Measuring the Familiarity of 20,000 Words, Research on Speech Perception

    H. C. Nusbaum

  • Listening to talking faces: motor cortical activation during speech perception

    Jeremy I. Skipper;Howard C. Nusbaum;Steven L. Small

  • In the eye of the beholder: Individual differences in perceived social isolation predict regional brain activation to social stimuli

    John T. Cacioppo;Catherine J. Norris;Jean Decety;George Monteleone

  • Sports experience changes the neural processing of action language.

    Sian L. Beilock;Ian M. Lyons;Andrew Mattarella-Micke;Howard C. Nusbaum

  • Speech-associated gestures, Broca's area, and the human mirror system.

    Jeremy I. Skipper;Susan Goldin-Meadow;Howard C. Nusbaum;Steven L. Small

  • Speech perception, word recognition and the structure of the lexicon

    David B. Pisoni;Howard C. Nusbaum;Paul A. Luce;Louisa M. Slowiaczek

  • Probing the Mental Representation of Gesture: Is Handwaving Spatial?.

    Susan M Wagner;Howard Nusbaum;Susan Goldin-Meadow

  • Just because you're imaging the brain doesn't mean you can stop using your head: a primer and set of first principles.

    John T. Cacioppo;Gary G. Berntson;Tyler S. Lorig;Catherine J. Norris

  • Some Effects of Training on the Perception of Synthetic Speech

    Eileen C. Schwab;Howard C. Nusbaum;David B. Pisoni

  • The Science of Wisdom in a Polarized World: Knowns and Unknowns

    Igor Grossmann;Nic M. Weststrate;Monika Ardelt;Justin Peter Brienza

  • Selective attention and the acquisition of new phonetic categories.

    Alexander L. Francis;Howard C. Nusbaum

  • Acoustic differences, listener expectations, and the perceptual accommodation of talker variability.

    James S. Magnuson;Howard C. Nusbaum

  • The development of speech perception : the transition from speech sounds to spoken words

    Judith Goodman;Howard C. Nusbaum

  • The Absorption Hypothesis: Learning to Hear God in Evangelical Christianity

    T. M. Luhrmann;Howard Nusbaum;Ronald Thisted

  • Effects of training on attention to acoustic cues

    Alexander L. Francis;Kate Baldwin;Howard C. Nusbaum

Frequent Co-Authors

David B. Pisoni
David B. Pisoni Indiana University
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago
John T. Cacioppo
John T. Cacioppo University of Chicago
Jean Decety
Jean Decety University of Chicago
Marc G. Berman
Marc G. Berman University of Chicago
James S. Magnuson
James S. Magnuson University of Connecticut
Gary G. Berntson
Gary G. Berntson The Ohio State University
Paul A. Luce
Paul A. Luce University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Daniel Casasanto
Daniel Casasanto Cornell University
Sian L. Beilock
Sian L. Beilock Barnard College

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