James Magnuson

Ikerbasque Research Professor, BCBL

Ikerbasque Research Professor at the BCBL.

Research line:

Computational modeling of language and cognition.

Young Investigator Award in Experimental Psychology (2004) from the American Psychological Association; U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2008).

Previous research experience: Columbia University, University of Connecticut (USA).

PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences (2001) from University of Rochester (USA).

Publicaciones
Congresos y Proceedings

2024

Article / Resolving competing predictions in speech: How qualitatively different cues and cue reliability contribute to phoneme identification

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Crinnion, A.M.; Luthra, S.; Gaston, P.; Magnuson, J.S.

Article / Lexical Feedback in the Time-Invariant String Kernel (TISK) Model of Spoken Word Recognition

Journal of Cognition

Magnuson, J.S.; You, H.; Hannagan, T.

Letter / Do They Know It's Christmash? Lexical Knowledge Directly Impacts Speech Perception

Cognitive Science

Luthra, S.; Crinnion, A.M.; Saltzman, D.; Magnuson, J.S.

Note / Contra assertions, feedback improves word recognition: How feedback and lateral inhibition sharpen signals over noise

Cognition

Magnuson, J.S.; Crinnion, A.M.; Luthra, S.; Gaston, P.; Grubb, S.

Review / Spoken Word Recognition: A Focus on Plasticity

Annual Review of Linguistics

Kapnoula, E.C.; Jevtović, M.; Magnuson, J.S.

2023

Article / Investigating the Extent to which Distributional Semantic Models Capture a Broad Range of Semantic Relations

Cognitive Science

Brown, K.S.; Yee, E.; Joergensen, G.; Troyer, M.; Saltzman, E.; Rueckl, J.; Magnuson, J.S.; McRae, K.

Article / Using TMS to evaluate a causal role for right posterior temporal cortex in talker-specific phonetic processing

Brain and Language

Luthra, S.; Mechtenberg, H.; Giorio, C.; Theodore, R.M.; Magnuson, J.S.; Myers, E.B.

Article / Right Posterior Temporal Cortex Supports Integration of Phonetic and Talker Information

Neurobiology of Language

Luthra, S.; Magnuson, J.S.; Myers, E.B.

2022

Article / LexFindR: A fast, simple, and extensible R package for finding similar words in a lexicon

Behavior Research Methods

Li, Z.B.; Crinnion, A.M.; Magnuson, J.S.

2021

Article / Listener expectations and the perceptual accommodation of talker variability: A pre-registered replication

Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics

Luthra, S.; Saltzman, D.; Myers, E.B.; Magnuson, J.S.

Article / Does signal reduction imply predictive coding in models of spoken word recognition?

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Luthra, S.; Li, M.Y.C.; You, H.; Brodbeck, C.; Magnuson, J.S.

Article / Robust Lexically Mediated Compensation for Coarticulation: Christmash Time Is Here Again

Cognitive Science

Luthra, S.; Peraza-Santiago, G.; Beeson, K.; Saltzman, D.; Crinnion, A.M.; Magnuson, J.S.

2023

Poster presentation | Situating the Neural Basis of Adjectival Modification Across Typologically Diverse Languages.

Society for the Neurobiology of Language (SNL), Marseille, France. - Poster presentation

Bekemeier, N., Hundt, M., Jäger, L., Zúñiga, F., Sennrich, X., Lapresa-Serrano, J., Magnuson, J., Molinaro, N., & Hervais-Adelman, A.

2021

Conference Paper | Lexically-Mediated Compensation for Coarticulation in Older Adults

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Comparative Cognition: Animal Minds, CogSci 2021 - Conference Paper

Luthra, S.; Peraza-Santiago, G.; Saltzman, D.; Crinnion, A.M.; Magnuson, J.S.