St. Olaf Speech and Cognition Lab

Publications

Music

  • Straehley, I. & Loebach, J.L. (2014). The influence of mode and musical experience on the attribution of emotions to melodic sequences. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind & Brain. 24(1), 21-34.

Perceptual Learning

  • Bent, T., Loebach, J.L., Phillips, L.* & Pisoni, D.B. (2011). Perceptual adaptation to sinewave-vocoded speech across languages. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 37(5) 1607-1616. Pubmed
  • Loebach, J.L., Pisoni, D.B., & Svirsky, M.A. (2010). Effects of semantic context and feedback on perceptual learning of speech processed through an acoustic simulation of a cochlear implant. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 36(1), 224-234. Pubmed
  • Loebach, J.L., Pisoni, D.B., & Svirsky, M.A. (2009). Transfer of auditory perceptual learning with spectrally reduced speech to speech and nonspeech tasks: Implications for cochlear implants. Ear and Hearing. 30(6), 662-674.  Pubmed
  • Loebach, J.L., Bent, T., & Pisoni, D.B. (2008). Multiple routes to the perceptual learning of speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,124(1), 552-562.  Pubmed
  • Loebach, J.L. & Pisoni, D.B. (2008). Perceptual learning of spectrally degraded speech and environmental sounds. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 123(2), 1126-1139.  Pubmed

Neural Encoding of Vocoded Speech

  • Loebach, J.L. & Wickesberg, R.E. (2008). The psychoacoustics of noise vocoded speech: A physiological means to a perceptual end. Hearing Research, 241, 87-96.  Pubmed PDF
  • Loebach, J.L. & Wickesberg, R.E. (2006). The encoding of noise vocoded speech in the auditory nerve of the Chinchilla: Physiological correlates of the perception of spectrally reduced speech. Hearing Research, 213(1-2), 130-144.  Pubmed PDF

Speech Perception and Auditory Cognition

  • Loebach, J.L., Conway, C.M., & Pisoni, D.B. (2010). Audition: Cognitive Influences. In E. Bruce Goldstein (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Perception, London, UK: Sage. 1: 138-141. Google
  • Conway, C.M., Loebach, J.L., & Pisoni, D.B. (2010). Speech Perception. In E. Bruce Goldstein (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Perception, London, UK: Sage. 2: 918-923. Google