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Learning

Veillette, J. P., Ho, L., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2023). Metacognition bridges experiences and beliefs in Sense of Agency. PsyArXiv.https://psyarxiv.com/4z2rj/[PDF]

Van Hedger, S. C., Bongiovanni, N. R., Heald, S. L. M., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2023). Absolute pitch judgments of familiar melodies generalize across timbre and octave. Memory & Cognition.https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-023-01429-z [PDF]

Bongiovanni, N. R., Heald, S. L. M., Nusbaum, H. C., & Van Hedger, S. C. (2023). Generalizing across tonal context, timbre, and octave in rapid absolute pitch training. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 85, 525–542. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02653-0 [PDF]

Heald, S. L. M., Van Hedger, S. C., Veillette, J., Snyder, J. S., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2021). Going beyond rote auditory learning: Neural patterns of generalized auditory learning. bioRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.30.424903

Brookshire, G., Mangelsdorf, H. H, Sava-Segal, C., Reis, K., Nusbaum, H., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Casasanto, D. (2021). Expertise modulates neural tracking of dance and sign language. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6x20792j

Reis, K. S., Heald, S. L. M., Veillette, J. P., Van Hedger, S. C., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2021). Individual differences in human frequency-following response predict pitch labeling ability. Scientific Reports, 11, 14290. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-93312-7

Van Hedger, S. C., & Nusbaum, H. C. (under review). Individual differences in absolute pitch performance: Contributions of working memory, musical expertise, and tonal language background.

Van Hedger, S. C., Huang, A., Nusbaum, H. C., Kotabe, H., Heald, S. L., & Berman, M. G. (under review). Perceptual and conceptual foundations of the aesthetic preference for nature sounds. [repository]

Heald, S. L. M., Uddin, S., Van Hedger, S. C., Snyder, J., & Nusbaum, H. C. (under review). Rapid generalized perceptual learning affects early sensory changes in neural processing.

Zhen, A., Van Hedger, S. C., Heald, S. L. M., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Tian, X. (under review). Manual directional gestures facilitate cross-modal perceptual learning.

Stock, R. M., Heald, S. L. M., Holthaus, C., Gillert, N., & von Hippel, E. A. (2020). Need-solution pair recognition by household sector individuals: Evidence, and a cognitive mechanism explanation. Research Policy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2020.104068 [PDF]

Brawn, T. P., Nusbaum, H. C., & Margoliash, D. (2018). Sleep-dependent reconsolidation after memory destabilization in starlings. Nature Communications, 9(3093), 1-11. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05518-5 [PDF]

Nusbaum, H. C., Uddin, S., Van Hedger, S. C., & Heald, S. L. M. (2018). Consolidating skill learning through sleep. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 20, 174-182. doi: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2018.01.013 [PDF]

Stock, R. M., Heald, S. L. M., Holthaus, C., Gillert, N., & von Hippel, E. A. (2018). Need-solution pair recognition driven by object oriented solution-finding. Social Science Research Network, 1-38. doi: 10.2139/ssrn.2902117 [PDF]

Uddin, S., Heald, S. L. M., Van Hedger, S. C., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2018). Hearing sounds as words: Neural responses to environmental sounds in the context of fluent speech. Brain and Language, 179, 51-61. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2018.02.004 [PDF]

Uddin, S., Heald, S. L. M., Van Hedger, S. C., Klos, S., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2018). Understanding environmental sounds in sentence context. Cognition, 172, 134-143. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.12.009 [PDF]

Van Hedger, S. C., Heald, S. L. M., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2018). Absolute pitch can be learned by some adults. bioRxiv, 325050, 1-22. doi: 10.1101/325050 [PDF]

Van Hedger, S. C., Heald, S. L. M., Uddin, S., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2018). A note by any other name: Intonation context rapidly changes absolute note judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance. doi: 10.1037/xhp0000536 [repository] [PDF]

Van Hedger, S., Nusbaum, H., Clohisy, L., Jaeggi, S. M., Buschkuehl, M., & Berman, M. (2018). Of cricket chirps and car horns: The effect of nature sounds on cognitive performance. PsyArXiv. doi: 10.17605/OSF.IO/F5HCZ [repository] [PDF]

Heald, S. L. M., Van Hedger, S.C., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2017). Perceptual plasticity for auditory object recognition. Frontiers in Psychology, 8(781), 1-16. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00781 [PDF]

Heald, S. L. M., Van Hedger, S. C., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2017). Understanding sound: Auditory skill acquisition. Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 67, 53-93. doi: 10.1016/bs.plm.2017.03.003 [PDF]

Van Hedger, S.C., Heald, S. L. M., Huang, A., Rutstein, B., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2017). Telling in-tune from out-of-tune: Widespread evidence for implicit absolute intonation. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 24, 481-488. doi: 10.3758/s13423-016-1099-1 [repository] [PDF]

Van Hedger, S.C., Heald, S.L.M., & Nusbaum, H.C. (2017). Long-term pitch memory for music recordings is related to auditory working memory precision. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 71, 879-891. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2017.1307427 [repository] [PDF]

Tong, L. C. P., Ye, K. J., Asai, K., Ertac, S., List, J. A., Nusbaum, H. C., & Hortaçsu, A. (2016). Trading experience modulates anterior insula to reduce the endowment effect. PNAS, 113(33), 9238-9243. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1519853113 [PDF]

Van Hedger, S. C., Heald, S. L. M., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2015). The effects of acoustic variability on absolute pitch categorization: Evidence of contextual tuning. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138(1), 436-446. doi: 10.1121/1.4922952 [PDF]

Fenn, K. M., Margoliash, D., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2013). Sleep restores loss of generalized but not rote learning of synthetic speech. Cognition, 128(3), 280-286. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2013.04.007 [PDF]

Hedger, S. C., Heald, S. L. M., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2013). Absolute pitch may not be so absolute. Psychological Science, 24(8), 1496-1502. doi: 10.1177/0956797612473310 [PDF]

Aue, T., Nusbaum, H. C., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2012). Neural correlates of wishful thinking. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 7(8), 991-1000. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsr081 [PDF]

Coelho, C. J., Nusbaum, H. C., Rosenbaum, D. A., & Fenn, K. M. (2012). Imagined actions aren’t just weak actions: Task variability promotes skill learning in physical practice but not in mental practice. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 38(6), 1759-1764. doi: 10.1037/a0028065 [PDF]

Brawn, T. P., Fenn, K. M., Nusbaum, H. C., & Margoliash, D. (2010). Consolidating the effects of waking and sleep on motor-sequence learning. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(42), 12977-13982. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3295-10.2010 [PDF]

Luhrmann, T., M., Nusbaum, H., & Thisted, R. (2010). The Absorption Hypothesis: Learning to hear god in Evangelical Christianity. American Anthropologist, 112(1), 66-78. doi: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2009.01197.x [PDF]

Hasson, U., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2009). Task-dependent organization of brain regions active during rest. PNAS, 106(26), 10841-10846. doi: 10.1073pnas.0903253106 [PDF]

Brawn, T. P., Fenn, K. M., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2008). Consolidation of sensorimotor learning during sleep. Learning and Memory, 15, 815-819. Doi:10.1101/lm.1180908 [PDF]

Beilock, S. L., Lyons, I. M., Mattarella-Micke, A., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2008). Sports experience changes the neural processing of action language. PNAS, 105(36), 13269-13273. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803424105 [PDF]

Shintel, H., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2008). Moving to the speed of sound: Context modulation of the effect of acoustic properties of speech. Cognitive Science, 32(6), 1063-1074. doi: 10.1080/03640210801897831 [PDF]

Gentner, T. Q., Fenn, K. M., Margoliash, D., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2006). Recursive syntactic pattern learning by songbirds. Nature, 440(7088), 1204-1207. doi: 10.1038/nature04675 [PDF]

Sleep

Nusbaum, H. C., Uddin, S., Van Hedger, S. C., & Heald, S. L. M. (2018). Consolidating skill learning through sleep. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 20, 174-182. Doi: 10.1016/j.cobeha.2018.01.013 [PDF]

Van Hedger, S. C., Palmer, C., Hogstrom, A., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2015). Sleep consolidation of musical competence. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 33(2), 163-178. doi: 10.1525/MP.2015.33.2.163 [PDF]

Brawn, T. P., Nusbaum, H. C., & Margoliash, D. (2013). Sleep consolidation of interfering auditory memories in starlings. Psychological Science, 24(4), 439-447. doi: 10.1177/0956797612457391 [PDF]

Brawn, T. P., Nusbaum, H. C., & Margoliash, D. (2010). Sleep-dependent consolidation of auditory discrimination learning in adult starlings. The Journal of Neuroscience, 30(2), 609-613. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4237-09.2010 [PDF]

Fenn, K. M., Gallo, D. A., Margoliash, D., Roediger, H. L. 3rd, & Nusbaum, H. C. (2009). Reduced false memory after sleep. Learning and Memory, 16, 509-513. doi: 10.1101/lm.1500808 [PDF]

Brawn, T. P., Fenn, K. M., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2008). Consolidation of sensorimotor learning during sleep. Learning and Memory, 15, 815-819. Doi:10.1101/lm.1180908 [PDF]

Speech

Magnuson, J. S., Nusbaum, H. C., Akahane-Yamada, R., & Saltzman, D. (2021). Talker familiarity and the accommodation of talker variability. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83, 1842–1860. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-020-02203-y

Brookshire, G., Mangelsdorf, H. H., Sava-Segal, C., Reis, K., Nusbaum, H., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Casasanto, D. (2021). Expertise modulates neural stimulus-tracking. eNeuro, 8(4), ENEURO.0065-21.2021. https://dx.doi.org/10.1523%2FENEURO.0065-21.2021

Heald, S. L. M., Van Hedger, S. C., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2017). Understanding sound: Auditory skill acquisition. Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 67, 53-93. doi: 10.1016/bs.plm.2017.03.003 [PDF]

Williams, P. B., Poljacik, G., Decety, J., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2017). Loving-kindness language exposure leads to changes in sensitivity to imagined pain. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 13(4), 429-433. doi: 10.1080/17439760.2017.1315648 [PDF]

Heald, S., Klos, S., & Nusbaum, H. (2016). Understanding speech in the context of variability. In Neurobiology of language (pp. 195-208). Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-407794-2.00017-1

Van Hedger, S. C., Heald, S. L. M., &Nusbaum, H. C. (2016). What the [bleep?]: Enhanced absolute pitch memory for a 1000 Hz sine tone. Cognition, 154, 139-150. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.06.001 [repository] [PDF]

Heald, S. L. M., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2015). Variability in vowel production within and between days. PLOS ONE, 10(9): e0136791. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0136791 [PDF]

Heald, S. L. M., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2014). Talker variability in audio-visual speech perception. Frontiers in Psychology, 5(698), 1-9. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00698 [PDF]

Heald, S. L. M., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2014). Speech perception as an active cognitive process. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 8(35), 1-15. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00035 [PDF]

Egidi, G., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2012). Emotional language processing: How mood affects integration processes during discourse comprehension. Brain and Language, 122(3), 199-210. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.12.008 [PDF]

Fenn, K. M., Shintel, H., Atkins, A. S., Skipper, J. I., Bond, V. C., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2011). When less is heard than meets the ear: Change deafness in a telephone conversation. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64(7), 1442-1456. doi: 10.1080/17470218.2011.570353 [PDF]

Dick, F., Lee, H. L., Nusbaum, H., & Price, C. J. (2010). Auditory-motor expertise alters “speech selectivity” in professional musicians and actors. Cerebral Cortex, 21(4), 938-948. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhq166 [PDF]

Lyons, I. M., Mattarella-Micke, A., Cieslak, M., Nusbaum, H. C., Small, S. L., & Beilock, S. L. (2010). The role of personal experience in the neural processing of action-related language. Brain and Language, 112(3), 214-222. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2009.05.006 [PDF]

Margoliash, D., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2009). Language: The perspective from organismal biology. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13(12), 505-510. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2009.10.003 [PDF]

Monteleone, G. T., Phan, K. L., Nusbaum, H. C., Fitzgerald, D., Irick, J., Fienberg, S. E., & Cacioppo, J. T. (2009) Detection of deception using fMRI: Better than chance, but well below perfection. Social Neuroscience, 4(6), 528-538, doi: 10.1080/17470910801903530 [PDF]

Francis, A. L., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2009). Effects of intelligibility on working memory demand for speech perception. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 71(6), 1360-1374. doi: 10.3758/APP.71.6.1360 [PDF]

Skipper, J. I., Goldin-Meadow, S., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2009). Gestures orchestrate brain networks for language understanding. Current Biology, 19(8), 661-667. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2009.02.051 [PDF]

Francis, A. L., Nusbaum, H. C., & Fenn, K. (2007). Effects of training on the acoustic-phonetic representation of synthetic speech. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50(6), 1445-1465. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2007/100) [PDF]

Hasson, U., Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2007). Abstract coding of audiovisual speech: Beyond sensory representation. Neuron, 56(6), 1116-1126. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2007.09.037 [PDF]

Magnuson, J. S., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2007). Acoustic differences, listener expectations, and the perceptual accommodation of talker variability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 33(2), 391-409. doi: 10.1037/0096-1523.33.2.391 [PDF]

Shintel, H., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2007). The sound of motion in spoken language: Visual information conveyed by acoustic properties of speech. Cognition, 105(3), 681-690. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.11.005 [PDF]

Skipper, J. I., Goldin-Meadow, S., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2007). Speech-associated gestures, Broca’s area, and the human mirror system. Brain and Language, 101(3), 260-277. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2007.02.008 [PDF]

Skipper, J. I., van Wassenhove, V., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2007). Hearing lips and seeing voices: How cortical areas supporting speech production mediate audiovisual speech perception. Cerebral Cortex, 17(10), 2387-2399. doi: 10.1093/cercor/bhl147 [PDF]

Gentner, T. Q., Fenn, K. M., Margoliash, D., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2006). Recursive syntactic pattern learning by songbirds. Nature, 440(7088), 1204-1207. doi: 10.1038/nature04675 [PDF]

Music

Van Hedger, S. C., Veillette, J., Heald, S. L. M., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2020). Revisiting discrete versus continuous models of human behavior: The case of absolute pitch. PLoS One, 15(12), e0244308. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244308 [PDF]

Van Hedger, S. C., & Nusbaum, H. C. (under review). Individual differences in absolute pitch performance: Contributions of working memory, musical expertise, and tonal language background.

Van Hedger, S. C., & Nusbaum, H. C. (under review). Absolute pitch (Encyclopedia Entry)

Van Hedger, S. C., Heald, S. L. M., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2018). Absolute pitch can be learned by some adults. bioRxiv, 325050, 1-22. doi: 10.1101/325050 [PDF]

Heald, S. L. M., Van Hedger, S.C., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2017). Perceptual plasticity for auditory object recognition. Frontiers in Psychology, 8(781), 1-16. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00781 [PDF]

Heald, S. L. M., Van Hedger, S. C., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2017). Understanding sound: Auditory skill acquisition. Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 67, 53-93. doi: 10.1016/bs.plm.2017.03.003 [PDF]

Heald, S. L. M., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2014). Speech perception as an active cognitive process. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 8(35), 1-15. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00035 [PDF]

Van Hedger, S. C., Heald, S. L. M., Koch, R., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2015). Auditory working memory predicts individual differences in absolute pitch learning. Cognition, 140, 95-110. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.03.012 [PDF]

Heald, S. L. M., Van Hedger, S. C., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2014). Auditory category knowledge in experts and novices. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 8(260), 1-15. doi: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00260 [PDF]

Hedger, S. C., Heald, S. L. M., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2013). Absolute pitch may not be so absolute. Psychological Science, 24(8), 1496-1502. doi: 10.1177/0956797612473310 [PDF]

Hedger, S. C., Nusbaum, H. C., & Hoeckner, B. (2013). Conveying movement in music and prosody. PLOS One, 8(10), 1-9. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076744 [PDF]

Hedger, S. C., Nusbaum, H. C., Lescop, O., Wallisch, P., & Hoeckner, B. (2013). Music can elicit a visual motion aftereffect. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 75, 1039-1047. doi: 10.3758/s13414-013-0443-z [PDF]

Hoeckner, B., Wyatt, E. W., Decety, J., & Nusbaum, H. (2011). Film music influences how viewers relate to movie characters. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 5(2), 146-153. doi: 10.1037/a0021544 [PDF]

Wisdom

Boulware, J. N., Kim, Y., Nusbaum, H. C., & Henly, A. (2023). Stranger in a strange land: The role of study abroad in civic virtues. Journal of Moral Education, 52(1), 34–42. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057240.2022.2139668 [PDF]

Kim, Y., Nusbaum, H. C., & Yang, F. (2023). Going beyond ourselves: the role of self-transcendent experiences in wisdom. Cognition and Emotion, 37(1), 98–116. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2022.2149473 [PDF]

Schneider, T. R., Nusbaum, H. C., Kim, Y., Borders, M. R., & Ryan, T. J. (2021). Emotional intelligence predicts wise reasoning. The Journal of Positive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2021.1991448 [PDF]

Nusbaum, H. C. (2020). How to make Artificial Wisdom possible. International Psychogeriatrics, 32(8), 909-911. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610220001684 [PDF]

Boulware, J. N., Huskey, B., Mangelsdorf, H. H., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2019). The effects of mindfulness training on wisdom in elementary school teachers. Journal of Education, Society and Behavioural Science, 30(3), 1-10. doi: 10.9734/jesbs/2019/v30i330129 [PDF]

Nusbaum, H. (2016). Turning points: Finding experiential forks in the path to wisdom and virtues. The Self, Motivation, & Virtue Project. [PDF]

Williams, P. B., Mangelsdorf, H. H., Kontra, C., Nusbaum, H. C. & Hoeckner, B. (2016). The relationship between mental and somatic practices and wisdom. PLOS ONE, 11(2): e0149369. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149369 [PDF]

Williams, P. B., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2016). Toward a neuroscience of wisdom. In Neuroimaging personality, social cognition, and character (pp. 383-395). Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/B978-0-12-800935-2.00021-X [PDF]

Yang, W., Dietrich, A., Liu, P., Ming, D., Jin, Y., Nusbaum, H. C., Qiu, J., & Zhang, Q. (2016). Prototypes are key heuristic information in insight problem solving. Creativity Research Journal, 28(1), 67-77. doi: 10.1080/10400419.2016.1125274 [PDF]

Luhrmann, T. M., Nusbaum, H., & Thisted, R. (2013). “Lord, teach us to pray”: Prayer practice affects cognitive processing. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 13(1-2), 159-177. doi: 10.1163/15685373-12342090 [PDF]

Luhrmann, T. M., Nusbaum, H., & Thisted, R. (2010). The Absorption Hypothesis: Learning to hear god in Evangelical Christianity. American Anthropologist, 112(1), 66-78. doi: 10.1111/j.1548-1433.2009.01197.x [PDF]

Theory/Review

Veillette, J. P., Ho, L., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2023). Permutation-based group sequential analyses for cognitive neuroscience. NeuroImage, 277, 120232. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120232 [PDF]

Hasson, U., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2019). Emerging opportunities for advancing cognitive neuroscience. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23(5), 363-365. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2019.02.007 [PDF]

Van Hedger, S. C., & Nusbaum, H. C. (under review). Absolute pitch (Encyclopedia Entry)

Heald, S. L. M., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2014). Speech perception as an active cognitive process. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 8(35), 1-15. doi: 10.3389/fnsys.2014.00035 [PDF]

Margoliash, D., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2009). Language: The perspective from organismal biology. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13(12), 505-510. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2009.10.003 [PDF]

Cacioppo, J. T., Berntson, G. C., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2008). Neuroimaging as a new tool in the toolbox of psychological science. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 17(2), 62-67. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00550.x [PDF]

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