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.

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. (MATLAB code for the mixture models is also available. Please email me if you're interested in it.)

McMurray, B., Aslin, R. N., & Toscano, J. C. (2009). Statistical learning of phonetic categories: Computational insights and limitations. Developmental Science, 12, 369-378.

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. Oxford University Press.

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.

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.

Clayards, M. & Toscano, J. C. (2010, August). Modeling age of exposure in L2 learning of vowel categories. Poster to be 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. Paper 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.

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. (Abstract)

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. (Abstract)

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. (Abstract)

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.

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. 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. (Abstract)

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.

Toscano, J. C. (2005). Effect of object salience on eye movements in a visual-linguistic task. Honors thesis for the B.S. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester.

Toscano, J. C., & Beutter, B. R. (2005). Performance during visual search: Designing spacecraft with humans in mind. Univeristy of Rochester Journal of Undergraduate Research, 3(2), 8-12.

Toscano, J. C. (2004). Effect of salience on saccadic performance during visual search. Research report for NASA Undergraduate Student Research Program.