Twelve students have completed their dissertations from work in our lab. In addition we have been fortunate to have PostDocs, research assistants and high school students contribute their ideas and work. This is a brief summary of the papers and students who have published based on work done in our lab. (Papers marked with "**" are based on the student's dissertation).
Lucinda DeWitt (1989) Mark Pitt (1990) Lee Wurm (1996) Sven Mattys (1997)
Stuart Silverberg (2002)
Siyun Liu (2004)
Tanya Kraljic (2005)
Meghan Sumner (PostDoc 2003-6)
Philip Monahan (PostDoc 2010-2013)
Melissa Baese-berk (PostDoc 2011-2012)
Mellisa Gregg (2011)
Martijn Baart (PostDoc 2012-2017)
Saioa Larraza(2013)
April Pufahl (2014)
  • Pufahl, A., & Samuel, A.G. (2014). How lexical is the lexicon? Evidence for integrated auditory memory representations. Cognitive Psychology, 70, 1-30.
Julia Zhang (2015)
  • Zhang, X., Samuel, A.G., & Liu, S. (2012). The perception and representation of segmental and prosodic Mandarin contrasts in native speakers of Cantonese. Journal of Memory and Language, 66, 438-457.
  • Zhang, X., & Samuel, A.G. (2014). Perceptual learning of speech under optimal and adverse conditions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 40, 200-217.
  • Zhang, X., & Samuel, A.G. (2015). The activation of embedded words in spoken word recognition. Journal of Memory and Language, 79-80, 53-75.
  • **Zhang, X., & Samuel, A.G. (2018). Is speech recognition automatic? Lexical competition, but not initial lexical access, requires cognitive resources. Journal of Memory and Language, 100, 32-50.
Rocio Lopez Zunini (2017)
Yi Zheng (2018)
  • Zheng, Y., & Samuel, A.G. (2017). Does seeing an Asian face make speech sound more accented? Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 79, 1841-1859.
  • Zheng, Y., & Samuel, A.G. (2018). The effects of ethnicity, musicianship, and tone language experience on pitch perception. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 2627-2642.
  • Zheng, Y., & Samuel, A.G. (2019). How much do visual cues help listeners in perceiving accented speech? Applied Psycholinguistics, 40, 93-109.
  • **Zheng, Y., & Samuel, A.G. (2019). The relationship between phonemic category boundary changes and perceptual adjustments to natural accents. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, in press.
Sara Guediche (PostDoc 2016-)
Effie Kapnoula (PostDoc 2016-)
  • Samuel, A.G., & Sumner, M. (2012). Kapnoula, E.C.., & Samuel, A.G. (2019). Voices in the mental lexicon: Words carry indexical information that can affect access to their meaning. Journal of Memory and Language, 107, 111-127.
Leona Polyanskaya (PostDoc 2017-)
  • Samuel, A.G., & Sumner, M. (2012). Ordin, M. , Polyanskaya, L., Gomez, D.M., & Samuel, A.G. (2019). The role of native language and fundamental design of the auditory system in detecting rhythm changes. Journal of Speech, Hearing, and Language Research, 62(4), 835-852.
  • Samuel, A.G., & Sumner, M. (2012). Polyanskaya, L., Samuel, A.G., & Ordin, M. (2019). Regularity in speech rhythm as a social coalition signal. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1453, 153-165.
  • Samuel, A.G., & Sumner, M. (2012). Polyanskaya, L., Samuel, A.G., & Ordin, M. (2019). Speech rhythm convergence as a social coalition signal. Evolutionary Psychology, in press.

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High school students participating in the Intel National Science Talent Search
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Matt Troicki (1997) - Kings Park High School > Dartmouth
  • Samuel, A.G., and Troicki, M. (1998). Articulation quality is inversely related to redundancy when children or adults have verbal control. Journal of Memory and Language, 39, 175-194.
Schuyler Weiner (2000) - Kings Park High School > John Hopkins
  • Samuel, A. G., and Weiner, S.K. (2001). Attentional consequences of object appearance and disappearance. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 1433-1451.
Jerrold Lieblich (2005) - Ward Melville High School > Yale University (Finalist Intel National Science Talent Search 2005)
  • Samuel, A.G., & Lieblich, J. (2007). When the mind's ear doesn't hear what the brain's ear does: McGurk effect clues to the role of lexical information in spoken word recognition.
Kalyan Ray-Mazumder (2007) - Ward Melville > Yale University (Semi-Finalist Intel National Science Talent Search 2008)

Yuval Calev (2009) - Finalist (top 40 of 1600)
  • Title of project: “Language Perception, Production, and Memory: A Comparison of Older and Younger Adults”
Ryan Paragoris (2010)
  • Title of project: “The Effect of Dialect Representation on the Perception of Phonemic Variation”
Vivian Zhong (2014) Semi-finalist (top 300 of 1600 highly selected students nationally)
  • Title of project: “Describing Images: The Effect of Modern Communication on Personal Lexicon”
Kavya Tangella (2016) Semi-finalist (top 300 of 1600 highly selected students nationally)
  • Title of project: “Hearing Sounds, and the Illusion of Seeing Longer-Lasting Shapes”
  • Samuel, A.G., & Tangella, K. (2018). Sound changes that lead to seeing longer-lasting shapes. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 80, 986-998.