Publications

Luthra, S., Crinnion, A. M., Saltzman, D., & Magnuson, J. S. (in press). Do they know it’s Christmash? Lexical knowledge directly impacts speech perception. Cognitive Science. [OSF]

Crinnion, A. M., Luthra, S., Gaston, P., & Magnuson, J. S. (2024). Resolving competing predictions in speech: How qualitatively different cues and cue reliability contribute to phoneme identification. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. [OSF]

Magnuson, J. S., Grubb, S., Crinnion, A. M., Luthra, S., & Gaston, P. (2024). Contra assertions, feedback improves word recognition: How feedback and lateral inhibition sharpen signals over noise. Cognition, 242, 105661.

Luthra, S. (2024). Why are listeners hindered by talker variability? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 31(1), 104-121.

Obasih, C. O., Luthra, S., Dick, F., & Holt, L. L. (2023). Auditory category learning is robust across training regimes. Cognition, 237, 105467. [OSF]. [Gorilla materials].

Luthra, S., Mechtenberg, H., Giorio, C., Theodore, R. M., Magnuson, J. S., & Myers, E. B. (2023). Using TMS to evaluate a causal role for right posterior temporal cortex in talker-specific phonetic processing.  Brain & Language, 240, 105264. [Supplementary materials]. [Video summary]. [OSF].

Luthra, S., Magnuson, J. S. , & Myers, E. B. (2023). Right posterior temporal cortex supports integration of phonetic and talker information. Neurobiology of Language, 4(1), 145-177. [Video summary]. [OSF].

Heffner, C. C., Fuhrmeister, P., Luthra, S., Mechtenberg, H., Saltzman, D., & Myers, E. B. (2022). Reliability for perceptual flexibility in speech: Identification, learning, and adaptation. Brain and Language, 226, 1-11.

Saltzman, D., Luthra, S., Myers, E. B., & Magnuson, J. S. (2021). Attention, task demands, and multi-talker processing costs in speech perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47(12), 1673-1680. [Video summary]. [GitHub].

Luthra, S., Saltzman, D., Myers, E. B., & Magnuson, J. S. (2021). Listener expectations and the perceptual accommodation of talker variability: A pre-registered replication. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83(6), 2367-2376. [GitHub].

Luthra, S., Li, M. Y. C., You, H., Brodbeck, C., & Magnuson, J. S. (2021). Does signal reduction imply predictive coding in models of spoken word recognition? Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28(4), 1381-1389. [Supplementary materials]. [Poster presentation]. [GitHub].

Luthra, S., Peraza-Santiago, G., Beeson, K., Saltzman, D., Crinnion, A. M., & Magnuson, J. S. (2021). Robust lexically-mediated compensation for coarticulation: Christmash time is here again. Cognitive Science, 45(4), 1-20. [Video summary]. [OSF preregistration]. [GitHub].

Luthra, S., Mechtenberg, H., & Myers, E. B. (2021) Perceptual learning of multiple talkers requires additional exposure. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83(5), 2217-2228. [Video summary]. [OSF repository].

Luthra, S. (2021) The role of the right hemisphere in processing phonetic variability between talkers. Neurobiology of Language, 2(1), 138-151.

Luthra, S., Magnuson, J. S. & Myers, E. B. (2021). Boosting lexical support does not enhance lexically guided perceptual learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 47(4), 685-704. [Poster presentation]. [OSF repository].

Luthra, S., You, H., Rueckl, J. G., & Magnuson, J. S. (2020). Friends in low-entropy places: Orthographic neighbor effects on visual word identification differ across letter positions. Cognitive Science, 44(12), 1-31. [Poster presentation]. [GitHub].

Luthra, S., Correia, J. M., Kleinschmidt, D. F., Mesite, L. & Myers, E. B. (2020). Lexical information guides retuning of neural patterns in perceptual learning for speech. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(10), 2001-2012. [Poster presentation]. [OSF repository].

Magnuson, J.S., You, H., Luthra, S., Li, M. Y. C., Nam, H., Escabí, M., Brown, K., Allopenna, P.D., Theodore, R.M., Monto, N., & Rueckl, J.G. (2020).  EARSHOT: A minimal neural network model of incremental human speech recognition. Cognitive Science, 44(4), 1-17. [Supplementary materials]. [Poster presentation]. [GitHub].

Luthra, S., Fuhrmeister, P., Molfese, P. J., Guediche, S., Blumstein, S. E., & Myers, E. B. (2019). Brain-behavior relationships in incidental learning of non-native phonetic categories. Brain & Language, 198. [Poster presentation].

Luthra, S., Guediche, S., Blumstein, S. E., & Myers, E. B. (2019). Neural substrates of subphonemic variation and lexical competition in spoken word recognition. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 34(2), 151-169. [Supplementary materials]. [Poster presentation].

Luthra, S., Fox, N. P., & Blumstein, S. E. (2018). Speaker information affects false recognition of unstudied lexical-semantic associates. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 80(4), 894-912. [Poster presentation]. [OSF Repository].

Magnuson, J. S., Mirman, D., Luthra, S., Strauss, T., & Harris, H. D. (2018). Interaction in spoken word recognition models: Feedback helps. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. 1-18.

Theodore, R. M., Blumstein, S. E., & Luthra, S. (2015). Attention modulates specificity effects in spoken word recognition: Challenges to the time-course hypothesis. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 77(5), 1674-1684.