Media

• While a doctoral student at the University of Rochester, my research on infant eye-movements was features on ABC News (story developed by the Science and Technology News Network). Click here to see me with long hair!
• In 2007 I was interviewed for an excellent piece in the NY Times on infant eye-movements.

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Papers

• McMurray, B. (2007) Defusing the childhood vocabulary explosion. Science
• McMurray, B., and Aslin, R.N. (2005) Infants are sensitive to within-category variation in speech perception. Cognition, 95/2, B15-B26.
• McMurray, B. and Aslin, R.N. (2004). Anticipatory eye movements reveal infants’ auditory and visual categories. Infancy, 6(2), 203-229.
• Magnuson, J., McMurray, B., Tanenhaus, M. and Aslin, R. (2003). Lexical effects on compensation for coarticulation: The ghost of Christmash past. Cognitive Science, 27(2), 285-298.
• McMurray, B., Tanenhaus, M., and Aslin, R. (2002). Gradient effects of within-category phonetic variation on lexical access, Cognition, 86(2), B33-B42.

Presentations

• McMurray, B., Horst, J., and Samuelson, L. (2007, April) The interdependence of long-term learning and real-time behavior: computational investigations with a word learning model. In L. Sameulson & L.Smith (chairs) It's About Time: New Approaches to Timescales, Computation and Processes in Early Word Learning. Symposium presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.
• McMurray, B. (2007, March) Spoken language comprehension at two time scales: developmental, and momentary. Invited colloquium presented at the Grinnell University Department of Psychology.
• McMurray, B. (2006, February) Back to the future: Where we’re going, we don’t need phonemes. Implications of a gradient lexicon. Invited colloquium presented at the Rice University Department of Linguistics.
• McMurray, B., Samelson, V., Lee, S.H., and Tomblin, J.B. (2006, June) Eye-movements reveal the timecourse of spoken word recognition in normal and language-impaired adolescents. Poster presented at the Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI.
• Dennhardt, J., McMurray, B., Luck, S., and Toscano, J. (2006, June) Gradient effects of continuous acoustic detail revealed by event-related potentials. Poster presented at the 151st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Providence, RI.
• Toscano, J., 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. Won best student poster award!
• Munson, C., McMurray, B., and Gow, D.W. (2006, June) Lexical influences on the progressive facilitation during perception of assimilated speech. Paper presented at the 151st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Providence, RI.
• Horst, J.S., McMurray, B., and Samuelson, L.K. (2006, July) Online processing is essential for learning: Understanding fast mapping and word learning in a dynamic connectionist architecture. Paper presented at the 28th meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Vancouver, British Columbia.
• Toscano, J., and McMurray, B. (2007, April) Taking Statistical Learning to the Next Level: A Computational Approach to the Acquisition of Multi-Dimensional Categories. Poster to be presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.
• Samelson, V., McMurray, B., Lee, S., and Tomblin, J.B. (2007, April) Eye Movement During Spoken Word Recognition in Normal and Language-Impaired Adolescents: Activation and Inhibition Effects. Poster to be presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA.