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Journal Articles

  Crinnion A.M., Toscano J.C., & Toscano C.M. (2022). Effects of experience on recognition of speech produced with a face mask. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7, 46.
  Biro T., Viswanathan N., & Toscano J.C. (2022). The influence of task engagement on phonetic convergence. Speech Communication, 138, 50-66.
  Getz, L.M. & Toscano, J.C. (2021). Rethinking the McGurk effect as a perceptual illusion. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 83, 2583-2598.
  Getz, L.M., Toscano, J.C. (2021). The time-course of speech perception revealed by temporally-sensitive neural measures. WIREs Cognitive Science, 12, e1541.
  Toscano, J.C., Toscano, C.M. (2021). Effects of face masks on speech recognition in multi-talker babble noise. PLOS ONE, 16, e0246842.
  Crinnion, A.M., Malmskog, B., Toscano, J.C. (2020). A graph-theoretic approach to identifying acoustic cues for speech sound categorization. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 27, 1104-1125.
  Falandays, J.B., Brown-Schmidt, S., Toscano, J.C. (2020). Long-lasting gradient activation of referents during spoken language processing. Journal of Memory and Language, 112.
  Getz L.M., Toscano J.C. (2019). Electrophysiological evidence for top-down lexical influences on early speech perception. Psychological Science, 30, 830-841.
  Toscano, J.C. & Lansing, C. (2019). Age-Related Changes in Temporal and Spectral Cue Weights in Speech. Language and Speech, 62, 61-79.
  Gao, A., Toscano, J.C., Chillin, S., & Darren, T. (2019). Reassessing the electrophysiological evidence for categorical perception of Mandarin lexical tone: ERP evidence from native and naive non-native Mandarin listeners. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81, 543-557.
  Pereira, O., Gao, A., & Toscano, J.C. (2018). Perceptual encoding of natural speech sounds revealed by the N1 event-related potential response. Auditory Perception and Cognition, 1, 112-130.
  Tabachnick A.R. & Toscano J.C. (2018). Perceptual encoding in auditory brainstem responses: Effects of stimulus frequency. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61, 2364-2375.
  Toscano J.C., Anderson N.D., Fabiani M., Gratton G., & Garnsey S.M. (2018). The time-course of cortical responses to speech revealed by fast optical imaging. Brain & Language, 184, 32-42.
  Buxo-Lugo, A., Toscano, J.C., & Watson, D.G. (2018). Effects of participant engagement on prosodic prominence. Discourse Processes, 55, 305-323.
  Brown-Schmidt S., Toscano J.C. (2017). Gradient acoustic information induces long-lasting referential uncertainty in short discourses. Language, Cognition, & Neuroscience, 32, 1211-1228.
  Getz, L.M., Nordeen, E.R., Vrabic, S.C., & Toscano, J.C. (2017). Modeling the Development of Audiovisual Cue Integration in Speech Perception. Brain Sciences, 7, 32.
  Toscano, J.C., & McMurray, B. (2015). The time-course of speaking rate compensation: Effects of sentential rate and vowel length on voicing judgments. Language, Cognition, and Neuroscience, 30, 529-543. PubMed Central
  McMurray, B., Munson, C., & Tomblin, J.B. (2014). Individual differences in language ability are related to variation in word recognition, not speech perception: Evidence from eye movements. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 57, 1344-1362. PubMed Central
  Toscano, J.C., & Allen, J.B. (2014). Across and within consonant errors for isolated syllables in noise. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 57, 2293-2307. PubMed Central
  Toscano, J.C., Anderson, N.D., & McMurray, B. (2013). Reconsidering the role of temporal order in spoken word recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 20. 981-987. PubMed Central
  Toscano, J.C., & McMurray, B. (2012). Cue-integration and context effects in speech: Evidence against speaking-rate normalization. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 74, 1284-1301. PubMed Central
  Munson, C.M. (2011). Perceptual learning in speech reveals pathways of processing. Doctoral dissertation, University of Iowa.
  Toscano, J.C. (2011). Perceiving speech in context: Compensation for contextual variability at the level of acoustic cue encoding and categorization. Doctoral dissertation, University of Iowa.
  Cole, J., Linebaugh, G., Munson, C., & McMurray, B. (2010). Unmasking the acoustic effects of vowel-to-vowel coarticulation: A statistical modeling approach. Journal of Phonetics, 38, 167-184. PubMed Central
  Toscano, J.C., McMurray, B., Dennhardt, J., & Luck, S.J. (2010). Continuous perception and graded categorization: Electrophysiological evidence for a linear relationship between the acoustic signal and perceptual encoding of speech. Psychological Science, 21, 1532-1540. PubMed Central
  Toscano, J.C., & McMurray, B. (2010). Cue integration with categories: Weighting acoustic cues in speech using unsupervised learning and distributional statistics. Cognitive Science, 34, 434-464. PubMed Central
  McMurray, B., Aslin, R.N., & Toscano, J.C. (2009). Statistical learning of phonetic categories: Insights from a computational approach. Developmental Science, 12, 369-378. PubMed Central
  Toscano, J.C., Perry, L.K., Mueller, K.L., Bean, A.F., Galle, M.E., & Samuelson, L.K. (2008). Language as shaped by the brain; the brain as shaped by development. Commentary on Christiansen & Chater, "Language as shaped by the brain", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 535-536.

Book Chapters

  Toscano, J.C., Buxo-Lugo, A., & Watson, D.G. (2015). Using game-based approaches to increase level of engagement in research and education. In S. Dikkers (Ed.), TeacherCraft: How Teachers Learn to Use Minecraft in Their Classrooms. Pittsburgh: ETC Press.
  McMurray, B., Cole, J.S., & Munson, C. (2011). Features as an emergent product of computing perceptual cues relative to expectations. In G. Nick Clements & Rachid Ridouane, Where Do Features Come From?, pp. 197-236.
  McMurray, B., Horst, J., Toscano, J.C., & Samuelson, L.K. (2009). Towards an integration of connectionist learning and dynamical systems processing: Case studies in speech and lexical development. In J.P. Spencer, M. Thomas, & J. McClelland (Eds.), Toward a Unified Theory of Development: Connectionism and Dynamic Systems Theory Re-Considered. New York: Oxford University Press.

Conference Proceedings

  Toscano, J.C., Mueller, K.L, McMurray, B., & Tomblin, J.B. (2010). Simulating individual differences in language ability and genetic differences in FOXP2 using a neural network model of the SRT task. In S. Ohlsson & R. Catrambone, Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2230-2235). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
  Toscano, J.C. & McMurray, B. (2008). Using the distributional statistics of speech sounds for weighting and integrating acoustic cues. In B.C. Love, K. McRae, & V.M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 433-438). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (2008 Computational Modeling Prize in Perception and Action)

Talks and Conference Presentations

  Sarrett, M.E., McMurray, B., & Toscano, J.C. (2021, December). Neural representations of speech: decoding bottom-up acoustics and examining top-down effects using electroencephalography. Poster presented at the 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, WA.
  Sarrett ME, McMurray B, & Toscano JC (2021, November). Contributions of bottom-up and top-down processes in speech cue encoding: evidence from EEG and machine learning techniques. Poster presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (virtual).
  Sarrett, M.E. & Toscano, J.C. (2021, May). Decoding speech information from neurophysiological data. Invited talk presented at Center for Mind & Brain. University of California, Davis, Davis, CA (virtual).
  Toscano, J.C. (2021, February). Tracking the time-course of spoken language as it happens. Invited talk presented at University of California, Davis, Davis, CA (virtual).
  Toscano, J.C. (2020, December). Cues and context in speech perception: Integrating bottom-up input with top-down expectations to recognize speech. Invited talk presented at Dept. of Linguistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (virtual).
  Black, J.E.S. & Toscano, J.C. (2020, November). Effects of visual context on maintenance of subphonemic information over time. Poster presented at 61st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society (virtual).
  Swartz, A. & Toscano, J.C. (2020, November). Lexical influences on speech perception: New neural network without separate phonological and lexical layers exhibits the Ganong effect. Poster presented at the 19th Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting (virtual).
  Toscano, J.C. (2020, September). What's in a word? How perception and expectation shape language processing. Talk presented at Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Villanova University, Villanova, PA (virtual).
  Martinez, E.L., Ruggiero, A.M., Javardian, A.N., Feeley, N.F., Morlet, T., & Toscano, J.C. (2019, November). Electrophysiological measures of speech sound encoding in background noise reflect accuracy and self-reported hearing difficulty. Poster presented at the 60th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Montrèal, QC, Canada.
  Henderson, M.R. & Toscano, J.C. (2019, November). Fricative/affricate perception measured using auditory brainstem responses. Poster presented at the 18th Annual Auditory Perception, Cognition and Action Meeting, Montrèal, QC, Canada.
  Saccocia, G.O. &l; Toscano J.C. (2019, May). Effects of self-reported hearing difficulty on intensity discrimination judgments. Poster presented at the 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Louisville, KY.
  Getz, L.M. & Toscano, J.C. (2019, May). Semantic context influences early spech perception: Evidence from electrophysiology. Paper presented at the 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Louisville, KY.
  Feeley, N. & Toscano, J.C. (2019, April). Influence of dialect region on vowel perception and vowel production. Paper presented at the 2019 Linguistics and Cognitive Science Student Conference, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
  Getz L, Toscano JC (2018, November). McGurk doesnt work: Evidence against the McGurk effect as a perceptual illusion. Poster presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.
  Gao YA, Pereira O, Toscano JC (2018, November). Sensitivity to continuous acoustic cues across spectral and temporal dimensions in speech. Poster presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.
  Getz L, Toscano JC (2018, November). Top-down lexical knowledge directly influences early speech perception. Paper presented at the 17th Annual Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
  Toscano JC, Saccocia G (2018, November). Differences in intensity discrimination predicted by self-reported speech recognition difficulty. Paper presented at the 17th Annual Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
  Feeley N, Toscano JC (2018, November). Influence of dialect region on vowel perception and vowel production. Poster presented at the 17th Annual Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
  Falandays JB, Spivey MB, Toscano JC (2018, July). Phonological representations in Spanish-English bilinguals: Unitary or dual sets? Poster presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, WI.
  Thomas C, Morlet T, Toscano JC (2018, April). The effects of hearing loss on speech sound processing: Is the N100 measure a more sensitive tool? Poster presented at the 2018 Linguistics and Cognitive Science Student Conference, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
  Falandays JB, Spivey MJ, Toscano JC (2018, March). Investigating phonemic representations in SpanishEnglish bilinguals using mouse-tracking: A laboratory/MTurk comparative study. Paper presented at the 60th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP 2018), Marburg, Germany.
  Getz L, Toscano JC (2018, March). Top-Down semantic information influences early speech sound encoding. Talk presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA.
  Thomas C, Morlet T, Toscano JC (2018, March). Electrophysiological measures of speech sound encoding and the effects of hearing loss. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Philadelphia, PA.
  Benecke A, Toscano JC (2018, January). How far can VOT take us? Voicing categorization with and without the use of VOT. Poster presented at the Society for Computation in Linguistics, Salt Lake City, UT.
  Crinnion AM, Malmskog B, Toscano JC (2018, January). A graph theoretic approach for generating hypotheses about phonetic cues in speech. Paper presented at Society for Computation in Linguistics, Salt Lake City, UT.
  Gao YA, Pereira O, Toscano, JC (2017, November). Encoding acoustic cues in speech: Electrophysiological measurements. Poster presented at the 16th Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Vancouver, BC.
  Toscano, JC, Folk E (2017, November). From sounds to words in 90 milliseconds: The time-Course of spoken word recognition. Paper presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC.
  Fischer-Baum S, Toscano JC (2017, November). Dissociation between lexical and indexical processing during speech perception. Poster presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Aphasia, Baltimore, MD.
  Benecke A, Toscano JC (2017, November). Classification of English stop consonants: A comparison of multiple models of speech serception. Poster presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC. (Recipient of a Graduate Student Travel Award from the Psychonomic Society)
  Falandays JB, Brown-Schmidt S, Toscano JC (2017, November). Long-Lasting gradient activation of referents during spoken sentence processing. Poster presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC.
  Biro T, Viswanathan N, Toscano JC (2017, November). How task engagement influences speech Production: A look at phonetic convergence. Poster presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC.
  Getz L, Toscano JC (2017, November). Marching bands and butter bombs: Semantic association modulates the auditory N100 response to speech sounds. Poster presented at the 58th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, BC.
  Folk E, Toscano JC (2016, November). Event-related potential responses reveal simultaneous processing across multiple levels of representation in spoken word recognition. Poster presented at the 5th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, HI.
  Tabachnick AR, Toscano JC (2016, November). High-pass filtering distorts auditory brainstem responses: Evidence from click and tone stimuli. Poster presented at the 5th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, HI.
  Pereira O, Toscano JC (2016, November). The N1 Event-Related Potential Component as an Index of Speech Sound Encoding for Multiple Phonetic Contrasts. Poster presented at the 5th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, HI.
  Falandays JB, Brown-Schmidt S, Toscano JC (2016, November). Time Course of Maintenance and Use of Gradient Acoustic Information During Pronoun Referent Interpretation. Poster presented at the 5th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, HI.
  Biro T, Toscano JC, Viswanathan N (2016, November). Phonetic convergence in an immersive game-based task. Poster presented at the 5th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan, Honolulu, HI.
  Toscano J, Allen JB (2016, October). Idiosyncratic effects in speech-based hearing tests. In J Toscano, B McMurray, E Myers, & M Goldrick, "Unifying principles and individual differences: What should we focus on to understand speech?" 15th Annual Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Boston, MA.
  Saltzman D, Rhone A, McMurray B, Toscano JC (2016, October). Listeners use sentential rate, but not envelope information, to compensate for speaking rate during spoken word recognition. Poster presented at the 57th Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.
  Getz LM, Nordeen E, Vrabic S, Toscano JC (2016, October). Modeling Audiovisual Cue Integration in Speech Perception. Poster presented at the 15th Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Boston, MA.
  Crinnon AM, Malmskog B, Toscano JC (2016, October). Which cues do listeners use? Discovering networks of phonetic cues for speech sound categorization using a graph theoretic approach. Poster presented at the 15th Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Boston, MA.
  Pereira, O., & Toscano, J.C. (2016, August). Auditory N1 Amplitude Varies Across Multiple Acoustic and Phonological Dimensions in Speech. Poster presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, PA.
  Vrabic, S., Nordeen, E., & Toscano, J.C. (2016, August). Speech Perception Across the Lifespan: Using a Gaussian Mixture Model to Understand Changes in Cue Weighting Between Younger and Older Adults. Poster presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, PA.
  Biro T, Viswanathan N, Toscano JC (2016, March). Using naturalistic and engaging tasks to measure phonetic convergence. Poster presented at the Sociolinguistic Variation and Language Processing Conference, Blacksburg, VA.
  Toscano JC (2015, November). Encoding continuous acoustic cues in speech: An approach for understanding speech perception and development. Invited colloquium presented at Nemours duPont Hospital for Children Translational Research Seminar, Wilmington, DE.
  Biro T, Viswanathan N, Toscano JC (2015, November). Measuring phonetic convergence and acoustic properties of speech with engaging, naturalistic tasks. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Chicago, IL.
  Curley T, Toscano JC (2015, November). Overcoming talker variability when learning speech sound categories: A computational approach. Poster presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL. (Recipient of a Graduate Student Travel Award from the Psychonomic Society)
  Folk E, Toscano JC (2015, November). Rapid lexical processing revealed by the time-course of ERP responses. Poster presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.
  Saltzman D, Rhone A, McMurray B, Toscano JC (2015, November). Artificially natural: Creating carefully-controlled acoustic cue continua from natural speech. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Chicago, IL.
  Tabachnick A, Brooks B, Allen JB, Toscano JC (2015, Novemer). Speech testing using token-level error thresholds: Comparison with pure-tone audiograms. Poster presented at the 14th Annual Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Chicago, IL.
  Toscano, J.C. (2014, October). The neural organization of speech perception. Invited paper presented at the Beckman Institute 25th Anniversary Symposium, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.
  Toscano, J.C. (2014, October). Continuity in spoken word recognition revealed in the time-course of processing. Invited colloquium presented at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
  Anderson, N.D., Toscano, J.C., Garnsey, S.M., Fabiani, M., & Gratton, G. (2014, May). Gradient coding of voice onset time in posterior temporal cortext. Poster presented at the 167th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Providence, RI.
  Toscano, J.C. (2014, April). The time-course of spoken word recognition. Invited talk presented at the Volen National Center for Complex Systems at Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
  Anderson, N.D., Toscano, J.C., Garnsey, S.M., Fabiani, M., & Gratton, G. (2014, April). Graded representations of voice onset time: Evidence from optical imaging. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society,, Boston, MA.
  Brown-Schmidt, S., & Toscano, J.C. (2014, March). Continuous acoustic information trickles up; discourse information trickles down. Poster presented at the 27th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Columbus, OH.
  Toscano, J.C., Trevino, A., & Allen, J.B. (2013, October). Assessing the assessment: Measuring listeners' speech recognition errors for specific consonants and tokens. Poster presented at the 2013 Aging and Speech Communication Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
  Toscano, J.C. (2013, May). Computing the reliability of acoustic information in speech. Invited talk presented at the Dept. of Linguistics, Northwestern University.
  Toscano, J.C. (2013, April). Acquiring and adapting phonetic categories in a computational model of speech perception. Invited paper presented at the Workshop on Current Issues and Methods in Speaker Adaptation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
  Buxo-Lugo, A., Toscano, J.C., & Watson, D.G. (2013, March). Task effects on prosodic prominence. Paper presented at the 26th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing, Columbia, SC.
  Toscano, J.C. (2013, February). A common mechanism for the acquisition of phonetic categories during development and perceptual learning in adulthood. Invited talk presented at the Dept. of Linguistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL.
  Toscano, J.C., & McMurray, B. (2012, November). Combining cues to recognize speech: Acoustic measurements of phonetic cues to word-medial voicing. Poster presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Minneapolis, MN.
  Toscano, J.C., & McMurray, B. (2012, November). An approach for manipulating the perceived gender of a talker's voice for studies of indexical effects in speech perception. Paper presented at the 11th Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Minneapolis, MN.
  Toscano, J.C., & McMurray, B. (2012, October). Perception of continuous acoustic cues in speech revealed by the auditory N1 and P3 ERP components. Poster presented at the 2012 Neurobiology of Language Conference, San Sebastian, Spain.
  McMurray, B., & Toscano, J.C. (2012, October). The consequences of lexical sensitivity to fine grained detail: Solving the problems of integrating cues and processing speech in time. In A. Jongman and J. Sereno (Chairs), The nature of lexical representations in the perception and production of speech. Symposium presented at the 164th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Kansas City, MO.
  Toscano, J.C., & McMurray, B. (2012, October). Voicing in English revisited: Measurement of acoustic features signaling word-medial voicing in trochees. Poster presented at the 164th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Kansas City, MO.
  Toscano, J.C., & McMurray, B. (2012, January). Measuring perceptual encoding and categorization of speech sounds using an ERP approach. Poster presented at the 6th Conference of the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Tucson, AZ.
  Toscano, J.C., & McMurray, B. (2011, November). Measuring acoustic cue encoding and categorization during speech processing using the auditory N1 and P3 ERP components. Paper presented at the 10th Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Seattle WA.
  Toscano, J.C., Anderson, N.D., & McMurray, B. (2011, November). The role of time in spoken word recognition: Evidence against temporal order in lexical representations. Poster presented at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA.
  Toscano, J.C., Anderson, N.D., & McMurray, B. (2011, October). The role of phoneme order and phonetic detail in spoken word recognition. Paper presented at the 17th Mid-Continental Phonetics and Phonology Conference, Urbana, IL.
  Clayards, M. & Toscano, J.C. (2010, August). Modeling age of exposure in L2 learning of vowel categories. Poster presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Portland, OR.
  McMurray, B., Apfelbaum, K.S., Toscano, J.C., & Samuelson, L.K. (2010, March). Something old and something new: Word learning as the interaction of statistical association and dynamic competition. In C. Yu (Chair), Modeling statistical word learning. Symposium presented at the 2010 International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore, MD.
  Toscano, J.C., McMurray, B., Luck, S.J., & Dennhardt, J. (2009, April). Listeners' sensitivity to acoustic detail in speech at the level of both early encoding and categorization. Poster presented at the 15th International Congress on Event-Related Potentials of the Brain, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
  Toscano, J.C. & McMurray, B. (2008, November). Online processing of acoustic cues in speech perception: Comparing statistical and neural network models. Poster presented at the 156th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Miami, FL. (Best Student Paper in Speech Communication — Second Prize)
  Toscano, J.C. & McMurray, B. (2008, October). Perception of voicing is graded all the way down: Evidence from electrophysiology. Talk presented at the 14th Midcontinental Workshop on Phonology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
  Toscano, J.C., Galle, M.E., and McMurray, B. (2007, October). Learning positional variation and place of articulation in stop consonants from the distributional statistics of acoustic cues. Poster presented at the 13th Midcontinental Workshop on Phonology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
  Toscano, J.C. and McMurray, B. (2007, October). Integrating acoustic cues to phonetic features: A computational approach to cue weighting. Poster presented at Where Do Features Come From? Phonological Primitives in the Brain, the Mouth, and the Ear. Paris, France.
  Toscano, J.C. and McMurray, B. (2007, March). Taking statistical learning to the next level: A computational approach to the acquisition of multi-dimensional categories. Poster presented at the 2007 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.
  Toscano, J.C. and McMurray, B. (2006, October). Acoustic cue integration in natural speech: Empirical and computational results. Talk presented at the 12th Midcontinental Workshop on Phonology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
  Toscano, J.C. and McMurray, B. (2006, June). A lexical locus for the integration of asynchronous cues to voicing: An investigation with natural stimuli. Poster presented at the 151st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Providence, RI. (Best Student Paper in Speech Communication — First Prize)
  Dennhardt, J., McMurray, B., Luck, S.J., and Toscano, J.C. (2006, June). Gradient effects of continuous acoustic detail revealed in event-related potentials. Poster presented at the 151st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Providence, RI.
  Toscano, J.C. (2005, November). Category acquisition through statistical learning using a mixture of Gaussians model. Invited talk presented at the University of Rochester Speech Group, Rochester NY.
  Toscano, J.C. and McMurray, B. (2005, November). Statistical learning, cross-linguistic constraints, and the acquisition of speech categories: a computational approach. Talk presented at the 11th Midcontinental Workshop on Phonology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.
  Beutter, B.R., Toscano, J.C., and Stone, L.S. (2005, May). Top-down and bottom-up influences on saccades in a visual search task. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.