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Holt, L. L. & Lotto, A. J. (submitted). Speech perception as categorization. Perception & Psychophysics. ( abstract | pdf )

Holt, L. L. & Lotto, A. J. (submitted). Reevaluating the evidence for gestural perception of speech. ( abstract | pdf )

Stephens, J. D. W., & Holt, L. L. (submitted). A standard set of American-English voiced stop consonant stimuli from morphed natural speech. ( abstract | pdf )

Stephens, J. D. W. & Holt, L. L. (submitted). A role for experience in multimodal perception: Acquisition of novel visual speech cues. ( abstract | pdf )

Hickok, G., Holt, L. L. & Lotto, A. J. (in press). Response to Wilson: What does motor cortex contribute to speech perception? Trends in Cognitive Sciences. ( abstract | pdf )

Holt, L. L. & Idemaru, K. (in press). Speech Perception. In Irving B. Weiner & W. Edward Craighead, Editors, Corsini’s Encyclopedia of Psychology, Fourth Edition. Wiley. ( abstract | pdf )

Holt, L. L. (in press). Psychophysics of Speech. In P. Hogan, Editor, Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. ( abstract | pdf )

Ming, V. & Holt, L. L. (2009). Efficient coding in human auditory perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 126, 1312-1320. ( abstract | pdf )

Huang, J. & Holt, L. L. (2009). General perceptual contributions to lexical tone normalization. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125, 3983-3994.( abstract | pdf )

Leech, R., Holt, L. L., Devlin, J. T., Dick, F. (2009). Expertise with artificial non-speech sounds recruits speech-sensitive cortical regions. Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 5234 –5239.( abstract | pdf | supplimental figure)

Lotto, A. J., Hickok, G. S., & Holt, L. L. (2009). Reflections on mirror neurons and speech perception. Trends in Cognitive Science, 13 110-114. ( abstract | pdf )

Holt, L. L. (2008). Speech Perception: Adult. In Larry R. Squire, Editor-In-Chief, Encyclopedia of Neuroscience, Vol. 9, Academic Press, Oxford, pp. 219-226. ( abstract | pdf )

Mirman, D., McClelland, J. L., Holt, L. L., and Magnuson, J. S. (2008). Effects of attention on the strength of lexical influences on speech perception: Behavioral experiments and computational mechanisms. Cognitive Science, 32, 398-417. ( abstract | pdf )

Holt, L. L. & Lotto, A. J. (2008). Speech perception within an auditory cognitive science framework. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17, 42-46. ( abstract | pdf )

Idemaru, K. & Holt, L. L. (2007). Relational timing or absolute duration? Cue weighting in the perception of Japanese singleton-geminate stops. International Congress of Phonetic Sciences 2007. ( abstract | pdf )

Mirman, D., McClelland, J. L. & Holt, L. L. (2006). Interactive activation and Hebbian learning produce lexically guided tuning of speech perception. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 13, 958-965. ( abstract | pdf )

Mirman, D., McClelland, J. L., & Holt, L. L. (2006). Response to McQueen et al.: Theoretical and empirical arguments support interactive processing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10, 534. ( abstract | pdf )

Holt, L. L. (2006). The mean matters: Effects of statistically-defined non-speech spectral distributions on speech categorization. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 120, 2801-2817 ( abstract | pdf )

McClelland, J. L., Mirman, D., & Holt, L. L. (2006). Are there interactive processes in speech perception? Trends in Cognitive Science, 10, 363-369. ( abstract | pdf )

Holt, L. L. (2006). Speech categorization in context: joint effects of non-speech and speech precursors. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 119, 4016-4026. ( abstract | pdf )

Holt, L. L. & Lotto, A. J. (2006). Cue weighting in auditory categorization: Implications for first and second language acquisition. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America , 119, 3059-3071. ( abstract | pdf )

Mirman, D., McClelland, J. L., & Holt, L. L. (2006). Attentional modulation of lexical effects on speech perception: Computational and behavioral experiments. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. ( abstract | pdf )

Lotto, A. J. & Holt, L. L. (2006). Putting phonetic context effects into context: A commentary on Fowler (2006). Perception & Psychophysics, 68, 178-183. ( abstract | pdf)

Holt, L. L., Stephens, J. D., & Lotto, A. J. (2005). A critical evaluation of visually-moderated phonetic context effects. Perception & Psychophysics, 67, 1102-1112. ( abstract | pdf )

Wade, T. & Holt, L. L. (2005c). Perceptual effects of preceding non-speech rate on temporal properties of speech categories. Perception & Psychophysics, 67, 939-950. ( abstract | pdf )

Wade, T. & Holt, L. L. (2005b). Incidental categorization of spectrally complex non-invariant auditory stimuli in a computer game task. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118, 2618-2633. ( abstract | pdf | stimuli )

Wade, T. & Holt, L. L. (2005). Effects of later-occurring non-linguistic sounds on speech categorization. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118, 1701-1710. ( abstract | pdf )

Holt, L. L. (2005). Temporally non-adjacent non-linguistic sounds affect speech categorization. Psychological Science, 16, 305-312. ( abstract | pdf)

Kluender, K. R., Lotto, A. J., & Holt, L. L. (2005). Contributions of nonhuman animal models to understanding human speech perception. In S. Greenberg and W. Ainsworth (Eds.) Listening to Speech: An Auditory Perspective, Oxford University Press: New York, NY. ( abstract | pdf )

Mirman, D., McClelland, J. M. & Holt, L. L. (2005). Computational and behavioral investigations of lexically induced delays in phoneme recognition. Journal of Memory and Language, 52, 424-443 ( abstract | pdf )

Holt, L. L., Lotto, A. J., & Diehl, R. L. (2004). Auditory discontinuities interact with categorization: Implications for speech perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116, 1763-1773. ( abstract | pdf)

Mirman, D., Holt, L. L. & McClelland, J. M. (2004). Categorization and discrimination of non-speech sounds: Differences between steady-state and rapidly-changing acoustic cues. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 116, 1198-1207. ( abstract | pdf )

Holt, L. L. & Wade, T. (2004). Non-linguistic sentence-length precursors affect speech perception: implications for speaker and rate normalization. Proceedings of From Sound to Sense: Fifty+ Years of Discoveries in Speech Communication. ( abstract | pdf )

Lacerda, F., Sundberg, U., Carlson, R. & Holt, L. L. (2004). Modeling interactive language learning: Project presentation. Proceedings of FONETIK 2004. ( abstract | pdf )

Diehl, R. L., Lotto, A. J. & Holt, L. L. (2004). Speech perception. Annual Review of Psychology, 55, 149-179. ( abstract | pdf )

Pollak, S. D., Holt, L. L. & Wismer Fries, A. B. (2004). Hemispheric asymmetries in children's perception of nonlinguistic human affective sounds. Developmental Science, 7, 10-18. ( abstract | pdf )

Lotto, A. J., Sullivan, S. C., & Holt, L. L. (2003). Central locus for non-speech effects on phonetic identification. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113, 53-56. ( abstract | pdf)

Stephens, J. D. W., & Holt, L. L. (2003). Preceding phonetic context affects perception of nonspeech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 114, 3036-3039. ( abstract | pdf )

Holt, L. L., & Lotto, A. J. (2002). Behavioral examinations of the neural mechanisms of speech context effects. Hearing Research, 167, 156-169. ( abstract | pdf )

Holt, L. L., Lotto, A. J., & Kluender, K. R. (2001). Influence of fundamental frequency on stop-consonant voicing perception: A case of learned covariation or auditory enhancement? Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 109, 764-774. ( abstract | pdf )

Holt, L. L. & Kluender, K. R. (2000). General auditory processes contribute to perceptual accommodation of coarticulation. Phonetica, 57, 170-180. Invited contribution to a special issue of Phonetica on Speech Communication and Language Development. ( abstract | pdf )

Lotto, A. J. & Holt, L. L. (2000). The illusion of the phoneme. In S. J. Billings, J. P. Boyle, & A. M. Griffith (Eds.), Chicago Linguistic Society, Volume 35: The Panels. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, 191-204. ( abstract | pdf )

Holt, L. L., Lotto, A. J., & Kluender, K. R. (2000). Neighboring spectral content influences vowel identification. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 108, 710-722. ( abstract | pdf )

Lotto, A. J., Kluender, K. R., & Holt, L. L. (2000). Effects of language experience on organization of vowel sounds. In M. Broe & J. Pierrehumber (Eds.), Laboratory Phonology V: Language Acquisition and the Lexicon. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 219-228. ( abstract | pdf )

Holt, L. L., Lotto, A. J., & Kluender, K. R. (1998). Incorporating principles of general learning in theories of language acquisition. In M. Gruber, C. Derrick Higgins, K. S. Olson & T. Wysocki (Eds.), Chicago Linguistic Society, Volume 34: The Panels. Chicago: Chicago Linguistic Society, 253-268. ( abstract | pdf )

Kluender, K. R., Lotto, A. J., Holt, L. L., & Bloedel, S. B. (1998). Role of experience for language-specific functional mappings for vowel sounds. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 104, 3568-3582. ( abstract | pdf )

Lotto, A. J., Kluender, K. R., & Holt, L. L. (1998). Depolarizing the perceptual magnet effect. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 103, 3648-3655. ( abstract | pdf )

Lotto, A. J., Kluender, K. R., & Holt, L. L. (1997). Animal models of speech perception phenomena. In K. Singer, R. Eggert, & G. Anderson (Eds.), Chicago Linguistic Society, Volume 33, 357-367, Chicago Linguistic Society: Chicago, IL. ( abstract | pdf )

Lotto, A. J., Kluender, K. R., & Holt, L. L. (1997). Effect of voice quality on perceived height of English vowels. Phonetica, 54, 76-93. ( abstract | pdf )

Lotto, A. J., Kluender, K. R., & Holt, L. L. (1997). Perceptual compensation for coarticulation by Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 102, 1134-1140. ( abstract | pdf )

Kluender, K. R., Lotto, A. J., & Holt, L. L. (1995). Effect of voice quality on the tense/lax distinction for English vowels. Proceedings of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, 4, 164-167. ( abstract | pdf )


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