Selected Publications

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Papers

2018 to Present

• Finkelstein, S.R., & Nygaard, L.C. (in press).  The neurolinguistics of expressivity: A cognitive-pragmatic perspective.  In Gutzmann, D. & Turgay, K. (Eds.) The Oxford handbook of expressivity in language. Oxford University Press.
• Lacey, S., Matthews, K.L., Hoffmann, A.M., Sathian, K., & Nygaard, L.C. (2024). Differential contributions of the spectro-temporal and vocal characteristics of auditory pseudowords to multiple sound-symbolic mappings. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2024.09.03.610973.
• Lacey, S., Matthews, K.L., Sathian, K., & Nygaard, L.C. (2024). Phonetic underpinnings of sound symbolism across multiple domains of meaning. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2024.09.03.610970.
• Kumar, G.V., Lacey, S., Dorsi, J., Hoffmann, A.M., Nygaard, L.C., & Sathian, K. (2024). Acoustic parameter combinations underlying mapping of pseudoword sounds to multiple domains of meaning: a machine learning approach. bioRxiv doi: 10.1101/2024.09.03.610973
• Tzeng, C.Y., Russell, M.L., & Nygaard, L.C. (2024). Attention modulates perceptual learning of non-native accented speech. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 86(1), 339
• Barany, D. A., Lacey, S., Matthews, K.L., Nygaard, L.C., and Sathian, K. (2023).  Neural basis of sound-symbolic pseudoword-shape correspondences.  Neuropsychologia, 188, 108657.
• McCormick, K.R., Lacey, S., Stilla, R., Nygaard, L.C., & Sathian, K.  (2021). Neural basis of the sound-symbolic crossmodal correspondence between auditory pseudowords and visual shapes. Multisensory Research, 35(1), 29-78.
• Lacey, S., Martinez, M., Steiner, N., Nygaard, L.C., & Sathian, K.  (2021).  Consistency and strength of grapheme-color associations are separable aspects of synesthetic experience.  Consciousness and Cognition, 91, 103137.
• Tzeng, C.Y., Nygaard, L.C., & Theodore, R.M. (2021). A second chance for a first impression:  Sensitivity to cumulative input statistics for lexically guided perceptual learning. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 28(3), 1003-1014.
• Nygaard, L.C., & Tzeng, C.Y. (2021). Linguistic and nonlinguistic factors in speech perception.  In Pardo, J. S., Nygaard, L.C., Pisoni, D. B., & Remez, R. E. (Eds.) The handbook of speech perception, Second Edition. Wiley.
• Pardo, J. S., Nygaard, L.C., Pisoni, D. B., & Remez, R. E. (Eds.) (2021). The handbook of speech perception, Second Edition. Wiley.
• Lacey, S., Jamal, Y., List, S.M., McCormick, K., Sathian, K., & Nygaard, L.C. (2020).  Acoustic and visual stimulus parameters underlying sound symbolic crossmodal correspondences.  Cognitive Science. 44(9), e12883.
• Tzeng, C.Y., Namy, L.L., & Nygaard, L.C.  (2019).  Communicative context affects use of referential prosody.
• Alexander, J.E.D., & Nygaard, L.C. (2019).  Specificity and generalization in perceptual adaptation to accented speech.
• Lewandowski, E.M., & Nygaard, L.C.  (2018).  Vocal alignment to native- and non-native speakers of English.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144(2), 620-633.
• McCormick, K.R., Lacey, S., Stilla, R., Nygaard, L.C., & Sathian, K.  (2018). Neural basis of the crossmodal correspondence between auditory pitch and visuospatial elevation. Neuropsychologia, 112, 19-30.
• Tzeng, C.Y., Duan, J., Namy, L.L., & Nygaard, L.C. (2018). Prosody in speech as a source of referential information. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 33, 512-526. 
• Revill, K.P., Namy, L.L., & Nygaard, L.C.  (2018).  Eye movements reveal persistent sensitivity to sound symbolism in online lexical processing.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 44(5), 680-698.

2007 to 2017

• Tzeng, C.Y., Nygaard, L.C., & Namy, L.L.  (2017).  Developmental change in children’s sensitivity to sound symbolism.  Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 160, 107-118.
• Jamal, Y., Lacey, S., Nygaard, L.C., Sathian, K.  (2017).  Interactions between auditory elevation, auditory pitch and visual elevation during multisensory perception.  Multisensory Research, 30(3-5), 287-306. 
• Tzeng, C.Y., Nygaard, L.C., & Namy, L.L. (2016).  The specificity of sound symbolic correspondences in spoken language.  Cognitive Science, 33(1), 1-30.
• Tzeng, C.Y., Alexander, J.E.D., Sidaras, S.K., & Nygaard, L.C.  (2016).  The role of training structure in perceptual learning of accented speech.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Human Perception and Performance, 42(11), 1793-1805.
• Revill, K.P., Namy, L.L., DeFife, L.C., & Nygaard, L.C. (2014). Cross-linguistic sound symbolism and crossmodal correspondence:  Evidence from fMRI and DTI.  Brain and Language, 128, 18-24. 
• Reinisch, E., Jesse, A., & Nygaard, L.C. (2013). Tone of voice guides word learning in informative referential contexts.  The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 66, 1227-1240. 
• Herold, D.S., Nygaard, L.C., & Namy, L.L. (2012). Say it like you mean it: Mothers’ use of prosody to convey word meaning.  Language and Speech. 55(3), 423-436.
• Heaton, H., & Nygaard, L.C. (2011). Charm or harm: Effect of passage content on listener attitudes toward American English accents.   Journal of Language and Social Psychology 30(2), 202-211.
• Herold, D.S., Nygaard, L.C., Chicos, K., & Namy, L.L. (2011).  The developing role of prosody in novel word interpretation.  Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 108(2), 229-241. 
• Nygaard, L.C., Cook, A.E., & Namy, L.L.  (2009).  Sound to meaning correspondences facilitate word learning.  Cognition, 112, 181-186. 
• Sidaras, S.K., Alexander, J.D., & Nygaard, L.C.  (2009).  Perceptual learning of an accent category in speech.   Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 125, 3306-3316.  DOI: 10.1121/1.3101452.
• Nygaard, L.C., Herold, D.S., & Namy, L.L.  (2009).  The semantics of prosody: Acoustic and perceptual evidence of prosodic correlates to word meaning.  Cognitive Science, 33, 127-146.  DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2008.01007.x
• Namy, L.L., & Nygaard, L.C.  (2008).  Perceptual-motor constraints on sound to meaning correspondence in language.  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31, 528-529.
• Fugate, J.M.B., Gouzoules, H., & Nygaard, L.C.   (2008).  Recognition of rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) noisy screams:  Evidence from conspecifics and human listeners.  American Journal of Primatology, 70, 594-604.
• Nygaard, L.C., & Queen, J.S.  (2008).  Communicating emotion:  Linking affective prosody and word meaning.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Human Perception and Performance, 34, 1017-1030.
• Alexander, J.E.D.,  & Nygaard, L.C.  (2008).  Reading voices and hearing text:  Talker-specific auditory imagery in reading.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Human Perception and Performance, 34, 446-459.

1996 to 2006

• Nygaard, L.C.  (2005). Linguistic and nonlinguistic factors in speech perception.  In D.B. Pisoni & R.E. Remez (Eds.), Handbook of speech perception.  Oxford, England:  Blackwell Publishers.
• Nygaard, L.C.  (2003).  Perceptual stability and informative variation:  A commentary on Remez, Goldinger & Azuma, and Local.  Journal of Phonetics, 30, 345-349.
• Namy, L. L., Nygaard, L.C., & Sauerteig, D.  (2002).  Gender differences in vocal accommodation:  The role of perception.  Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 21, 422-432.
• Nygaard, L. C., & Lunders, E.R.  (2002).  Resolution of lexical ambiguity by emotional tone of voice.  Memory & Cognition, 30, 583-593.
• Nygaard, L. C., Burt, S.A., & Queen, J.S.  (2000).  Surface form typicality and asymmetric transfer in episodic memory for spoken words.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 1228-1244.
• Bradlow, A. R., Nygaard, L. C., & Pisoni, D. B.  (1999).  Effects of talker, rate, and amplitude variation on recognition memory for spoken words.  Perception & Psychophysics, 61, 206-219.
• Forrest, K., Nygaard, L.C., Pisoni, D.B., & Siemers, E.  (1998).  Effects of speaking rate on word recognition in Parkinson’s Disease and normal aging.  Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology, 6, 1-12.
• Nygaard, L. C., & Pisoni, D. B.  (1998).  Talker-specific learning in speech perception.  Perception & Psychophysics, 60, 355-376.
• Saldaña, H.M., Nygaard, L.C., & Pisoni, D.B. (1996).  Episodic encoding of visual speaker attributes and recognition memory for spoken words.  In D. Stork & M. E. Hennecke (Eds.), Speechreading by man and machine:  Models, systems, and applications.  New York:  Springer.
• Eimas, P.D., Tajchman, G., Nygaard, L.C., & Marcus, D.J.  (1996).  Phonemic restoration and integration during dichotic listening.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 99, 1141-1147.

1985 to 1995

• Bradlow, A. R., Nygaard, L. C., & Pisoni, D. B. (1995). On the contribution of instance-specific characteristics to speech perception.  In C. Sorin, J. Mariani, H. Meloni, & J. Schoentgen (Eds.), Levels in speech communication: Reactions and interactions. The Netherlands:  Elsevier.
• Nygaard, L. C., Sommers, M. S., & Pisoni, D. B. (1995). Effects of stimulus variability on perception and representation of spoken words in memory.  Perception & Psychophysics, 57, 989-1001.
• Nygaard, L. C., & Pisoni, D. B.  (1995). Speech perception: New directions in research and theory. In J. L. Miller & P. D. Eimas (Eds.), Handbook of perception and cognition, volume II: Speech, language, and communication. New York: Academic Press.
• Sommers, M. S., Nygaard, L. C., & Pisoni, D. B. (1994). Stimulus variability and spoken word recognition: I. Effects of variability in speaking rate and overall amplitude. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 96, 1314-1324.
• Nygaard, L. C., Sommers, M. S., & Pisoni, D. B. (1994). Speech perception as a talker-contingent process.  Psychological Science, 5, 42-46. PMCID: PMC3081685.
• Nygaard, L. C. (1993).  Phonetic coherence in duplex perception:  Effects of acoustic differences and lexical status.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Human Perception and Performance, 19, 268-286.
• Nygaard, L. C.  (1992).  Is speech special?  [Review of  I.G. Mattingly & M. Studdert-Kennedy (Eds.), Modularity and the motor theory of speech perception ]. Contemporary Psychology, 37, 52-53.
• Eimas, P. D., & Nygaard, L. C.  (1992).  Contextual coherence and attention in phoneme monitoring.  Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 375-395.
• Nygaard, L. C., & Eimas, P. D.  (1990).  A new version of duplex perception:  Evidence for phonetic and nonphonetic fusion.  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 88, 75-86.
• Remez, R. E., Rubin, P. E., Nygaard, L. C., & Howell, W. A.  (1987).  Perceptual normalization of vowels produced by sinusoidal voices.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 13, 40-61.

Selected Presentations

2014 to Present