Peer Reviewed Manuscripts

• Rost, G., and McMurray, B. (2009) Speaker variability augments phonological processing in early word learning. Developmental Science, 12(2), 339-349
  
  
• McMurray, B., Tanenhaus, M.K., and Aslin, R.N. (2009) Within-category VOT affects recovery from "lexical" garden paths: Evidence against phoneme-level inhibition Journal of Memory and Language, 60(1), 65-91
  
  
• McMurray, B., Clayards, M., Tanenhaus, M., and Aslin, R. (2008) Tracking the timecourse of phonetic cue integration during spoken word recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 15(6), 1064-1071.
  
  
• McMurray, B., Aslin, R., Tanenhaus, M., Spivey, M., and Subik, D. (2008). Gradient sensitivity to within-category variation in speech: Implications for categorical perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology, Human Perception and Performance, 34(6), 1609-1631
  
  
• McMurray, B., Dennhardt, J., and Struck-Marcell, A. (2008) Context effects on musical chord categorization: Different forms of top-down feedback in speech and music? Cognitive Science, 32(5), 893 – 920.
  
  
• McMurray, B. (2007) Defusing the childhood vocabulary explosion. Science, 317(5838), 631
  
  
• Gow, D.,W., and McMurray, B. (2007) Word recognition and phonology: The case of English coronal place assimilation. J.S. Cole & J. Hualdo (Eds.) Papers in Laboratory Phonology 9. (pp 173-200). New York: Mouton de Gruyter PDF
  
  
• McMurray, B., and Aslin, R.N. (2005) Infants are sensitive to within-category variation in speech perception. Cognition, 95/2, B15-B26. PDF / Supplement
  
  
• McMurray, B. and Gow, D.W. (2005) It’s not how many dimensions you have, its what you do with them. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28(1), 31. PDF
  
  
• McMurray, B. and Aslin, R.N. (2004). Anticipatory eye movements reveal infants’ auditory and visual categories. Infancy, 6(2), 203-229.
  
  
• Aslin, R.N., and McMurray, B. (2004). Automated corneal-reflection eye-tracking in infancy: Methodological developments and applications to cognition. Infancy, 6(2) PDF
  
  
• Jordan, K., Weiss, D., Hauser, M. and McMurray, B. (2004). Antiphonal responses to loud contact calls produced by cotton-top tamarins (Saguinus oedipus). International Journal of Primatology, 25(2), 465-475. PDF
  
  
• McMurray, B., Tanenhaus, M., Aslin, R. and Spivey, M. (2003). Probabilistic constraint satisfaction at the lexical/phonetic interface: Evidence for gradient effects of within-category VOT on lexical access. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 32(1), 77-97. PDF
  
  
• Magnuson, J., McMurray, B., Tanenhaus, M. and Aslin, R. (2003). Lexical effects on compensation for coarticulation: A tale of two systems? Cognitive Science, 27(5), 801-805. PDF / McQueen's Critique
  
  
• 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. PDF
  
  
• McMurray, B., Tanenhaus, M., and Aslin, R. (2002). Gradient effects of within-category phonetic variation on lexical access, Cognition, 86(2), B33-B42. PDF
  
  
• McMurray, B., and Spivey, M. (2000). The categorical perception of consonants: the interaction of learning and processing. Proceedings of the Chicago Linguistics Society, 34(2), 205-220. PDF
  
  
• Tanenhaus, M., Magnuson, J., McMurray, B., and Aslin, R. (2000). No compelling evidence against feedback in spoken word recognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 23(3), 348-349. PDF
  
  
• Tanenhaus, M., Magnuson, J., McMurray, B., and Aslin, R. (2000). No compelling evidence against feedback in spoken word recognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 23(3), 348-349. PDF
  
  

Coming Soon

• McMurray, B., Horst, J., Toscano, J., and Samuelson, L. (in press) Towards an integration of connectionist learning and dynamical systems processing: case studies in speech and lexical development. In Spencer, J., and Thomas, M,. and McClelland, J. (Eds) Toward a new grand theory of development? Connectionism and Dynamic Systems Theory reconsidered.
  
  
• McMurray, B., Aslin, R.N., and Toscano, J. (in press) Statistical learning of phonetic categories: Computational insights and limitations. Contribution to special section of Developmental Science.
  
  
• McMurray, B., and Hollich, G. (in press) Core Computational Principles of Language Acquisition: Can Statistical Learning do the Job? Introduction to special section of Developmental Science.
  
  
• Horst, J.S., McMurray, B., and Samuelson, L.K. (in press) Online processing is essential for learning: Understanding fast mapping and word learning in a dynamic connectionist architecture. The proceedings of the 28th meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
  
  
• McMurray, B. (in preparation). KlattWorks: a [somewhat] new systematic approach to formant-based speech synthesis for empirical research.

Other Manuscripts

• McMurray, B. (2004) Within-category variation is used in spoken word recognition: Temporal integration at two time scales. Doctoral Dissertation for the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester. PDF / PPT of defense.
  
  
• Gow, D., and McMurray, B., (2004) From sound to sense and back again: the integration of lexical and speech processes. The proceedings of From Sound to Sense: 50+ years of discoveries in Speech Communication. PDF / PPT of conference presentation.
  
  
• McMurray, B., Spivey, M., and Aslin, R. (2000). The Perception of Consonants by Adults and Infants: Categorical or Categorized? Preliminary Results. In Crosswhite, K., and Magnuson, J., eds., The University of Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences, 2000(2), 215-256. PDF
  
  
• McMurray, B. (2000). Connectionism for ...er... linguists. In Crosswhite, K., and McDonough, J., eds., The University of Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences, 2000(1), 72-96. PDF
  

Invited Presentations

• 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 University of Iowa Department of Linguistics. PPT
  
  
• McMurray, B. (2006, February) Perceptual Categories: Old and gradient, young and sparse. Invited colloquium presented at the Texas A&M Department of Psychology PPT
  
  
• 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. PPT
  
  
• McMurray, B. (2006, January) Continuous detail is used in language comprehension and language learning: Temporal Integration at two time scales. Invited colloquium presented at the University of Illinois Department of Psychology. PPT
  
  
• McMurray, B. (2005, September) Continuous acoustic detail affects spoken word recognition Implications for cognition, development and language disorders. Invited colloquium presented at the University of Indiana University School of Medicine. PPT
  
  
• McMurray, B. (2005, February) Perception & Cognition: One at last in spoken word recognition. Invited talk presented at the University of Iowa Dept. of Otolaryngology and Cochlear Implant Group PPT
  
  
• McMurray, B. (2005, February) Within-category information is used in language processing: Temporal Integration at two timescales. Invited talk presented at the Purdue University Dept. of Psychology PPT
  
  
• Gow, D. and McMurray, B. (2004, June) From sound to sense and back again: the integration of lexical and speech processes. Invited paper for From Sound to Sense: 50+ Years of Discoveries in Speech Communication, Boston, Massachusetts. PPT
  
  
• McMurray, B. (2003, September). Within-category acoustic variation is signal, not noise: A new look at Categorical Perception and the problem of covariance. Invited talk presented at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Speech Communication Group. PPT
  
  
• McMurray, B. (2002, April). Two B or not two B: categorical perception in lexical and non-lexical tasks. Invited talk presented at the Brown University Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences PPT
  
  
• McMurray, B. (2001, July). The eyes betray the ears. Speech perception: categorical or categorized? Invited talk presented at the University of Calgary Department of Psychology

Conference Presentations

• Cole, J.S., McMurray, B., Linebaugh, G., and Munson, C. (2007, October) Parsing acoustic variability as a mechanism for feature abstraction. Paper presented at Where do features come from? Phonological primitives in the brain, the mouth and the ear. Paris, France. PPT.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• McMurray, B., Tanenhaus, M., and Aslin, R.N. (2006, June) Garden-path phenomena in spoken word recognition: Gradient sensitivity to continuous acoustic detail facilitates ambiguity resolution. Paper presented at the 151st meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. Providence, RI.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• 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.
  
  
• Horst, J.S., Samuelson, L.K., and McMurray, B. (2005, October) Real-Time Dynamics of Language Acquisition in Two-Year-Old Children and Connectionist Models. Poster presented at the 3rd Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society. San Diego, CA. PPT
  
  
• Horst, J. S., McMurray, B., and Samuelson, L.K., (2005, June) Connectionist Time and Dynamic Systems Time in One Architecture? Modeling Word Learning at Two Time Scales. Poster presented at Connectionist and Dynamic Systems Approaches to Development: On the Cusp of a New Grand Theory or Still Too Distributed? Iowa City, IA. PPT
  
  
• Toscano, J., and McMurray, B. (2005, November) Statistical learning cross-constraints and the acquisition of speech categories: a computational approach. Paper presented at the 11th Meeting of the Midcontinental Workshop on Phonology. Ann Arbor, Michigan. PPT
  
  
• Clayards, M. and McMurray, B. (2005, November) Can the temporal unfolding of gradient lexical activation reveal the grain of phonological units? Paper presented at the 11th Meeting of the Midcontinental Workshop on Phonology. Ann Arbor Michigan. McMurray, B, Gow, D.W., and Tanenhaus, M.K (2004, June) Tracking the timecourse of multiple context effects in assimilated speech. Paper presented at the Ninth Conference on Laboratory Phonology, Urbana-Champaign, IL. PPT
  
  
• McMurray, B., Clayards, M.A., Aslin, R.N., and Tanenhaus, M.K. (2004, May) Gradient sensitivity to acoustic detail and temporal integration of phonetic cues. Poster presented at the 75th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, New York. PDF
  
  
• McMurray, B., and Aslin, R.N. (2004, May) Stop-consonant perception in 7.5-month-olds:evidence for gradient categories. Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Chicago, IL. PPT
  
  
• McMurray, B., Maye, J., Lathrop, A., and Aslin, R.N. (2003, November) Categorical Perception of Speech: Task Variations in Infants and Adults. Paper presented at Auditory Perception, Cognition, and Action Meeting, Vancouver, Canada. PPT
  
  
• Gow, D., McMurray, B., and Tanenhaus (2003, November) Eye Movements Reveal the Time Course of Multiple Context Effects in the Perception of Assimilated Speech. Poster presented at The 44th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Vancouver, Canada. PDF
  
  
• McMurray, B., and Aslin, R. (2003, July) Anticipatory eye movements reveal infants’ auditory and visual categories. Poster presented at UQÀM Summer Institute in Cognitive Sciences, Montreal, Canada. PDF
  
  
• McMurray, B. (2002, October) Object Comprehension: it’s more than it looks. Commentary given at the University of Rochester Graduate Conference in Epistemology, Rochester, NY. PPT
  
  
• McMurray, B., and Aslin, R. (2002, April) Anticipatory eye movements (AntiEM): A new method for assessing multi-dimensional categorization in 6-month-olds. Poster presented at International Conference on Infant Studies. Toronto, Canada. PDF
  
  
• McMurray, B., Tanenhaus, M.K., Aslin, R.N., and Spivey, M.J. (2002, April) Gradient effects of within-category VOT differences on lexical activation as measured by eye fixations. Poster presented at Temporal Integration in the Perception of Speech, Aix-en-Provence, France. PDF
  
  
• McMurray, B., Tanenhaus, M.K., and Aslin, R.N. (2002, March) The lexical/phonetic interface: Evidence for gradient effects of within-category VOT on lexical access. Paper presented at the CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, New York, NY. PPT slides.
  
  
• McMurray, B., Magnuson, J.S., Tanenhaus, M.K. and Aslin, R.N. (2001, March) Transitional Probabilities and Lexical Status in Spoken Word Recognition. Poster presented at CUNY Sentence Processing Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
  
  
• McMurray, B., and Aslin, R.N. (2000, July) Anticipatory eye movements: a technique for assessing auditory categorization in 5-month-old infants. Poster presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Brighton, England. PDF
  
  
• Tanenhaus, M.K., Magnuson, J.S., McMurray, B., and Aslin, R.N. (2000, May) Does lexical knowledge mediate perceptual effects of compensatory coarticulation? Evidence from research with an artificial lexicon. Paper presented at the Workshop on Spoken Word Access Processes, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
  
  
• McMurray, B. and Spivey, M.J. (1999, July) The categorical perception of consonants: the interaction of learning and processing. Paper presented at the Empire State Speech Research Conference, Binghamton, NY.
  
  
• McMurray, B. and Spivey, M.J. (1999, May) The categorical perception of consonants: the interaction of learning and processing. Paper presented at the 34th Meeting of the Chicago Linguistics Society, Chicago, IL.
  
  
• McMurray, B., and Spivey M.J. (1999, April) The categorical perception of consonants: the interaction of learning and processing. Paper presented at the Second Meeting of the Northeast Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, PA.