Publications

2024

• King, C.J., Sharpe, C.M., Shorey, A.E., & Stilp, C.E. (2024). The effects of variability on context effects and psychometric function slopes in speaking rate normalization.Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 155(3), 2099-2113.
• Shorey, A.E.¹, King, C.J.¹, Whiteford, K.L., & Stilp, C.E. (2024). Musical training is not associated with categorization of musical instrument sounds in context.  Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.
              ¹ Joint first-authors

2023

• Stilp, C.E. & Chodroff, E. (2023). “Please say what this word is”: Linguistic experience and acoustic context interact in vowel categorization. JASA Express Letters, 3(8), 085203.
• Shorey, A.E., King, C.J., Theodore, R.M., & Stilp, C.E. (2023). Talker adaptation or “talker” adaptation? Musical instrument variability impedes pitch perception. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics.
• Kahloon, L.S., Shorey, A.E., King, C.J., & Stilp, C.E. (2023). Clear speech promotes speaking rate normalization. JASA Express Letters, 3(5), 055205.
• Shorey, A.E. & Stilp, C.E. (2023). Short-term, not long-term, average spectra of preceding sentences bias consonant categorization. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 153(4), 2426-2435.

2022

• Hatter, E.R., King, C.J., Shorey, A.E., & Stilp, C.E. (2022). Clearly, fame isn't everything: Talker familiarity does not augment talker adaptation. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.
• Stilp, C.E., Shorey, A.E., & King, C.J. (2022). Nonspeech sounds are not all equally good at being nonspeech. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(3), 1842-1849.
• Mills, H.E., Shorey, A.E., Theodore, R.M., & Stilp, C.E. (2022). Context effects in perception of vowels differentiated by F1 are not influenced by variability in talkers' mean F1 or F3. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(1), 55-66.

2021

• Stilp, C.E. (2021). Parameterizing spectral contrast effects in vowel categorization using noise contexts. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 180(5), 2806-2816.
• Stilp, C.E. & Assgari, A.A. (2021). Contributions of natural signal statistics to spectral context effects in consonant categorization. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 83, 2694-2708.

2020

• Stilp, C.E. (2020). Evaluating peripheral versus central contributions to spectral context effects in speech perception. Hearing Research, 392, 107983.
• Stilp, C.E. & Theodore, R.M. (2020). Talker normalization is mediated by structured indexical information. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 2237-2243.
• Lanning, J.M. & Stilp, C.E. (2020). Natural music context biases musical instrument categorization. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 82, 2209-2214.
• Stilp, C.E. (2020). Acoustic context effects in speech perception. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 11(1), 1-18. doi:10.1002/wcs.1517

2019

• Stilp, C.E. (2019). Auditory enhancement and spectral contrast effects in speech perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(2), 1503-1517.
• Stilp, C.E. & Assgari, A.A. (2019). Natural signal statistics shift speech sound categorization. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81(6), 2037-2052..
• Kluender, K.R., Stilp, C.E., & Llanos, F. (2019). Long-standing problems in speech perception dissolve within an information-theoretic perspective. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81(4), 861-883.
• Frazier, J.M., Assgari, A.A., & Stilp, C.E. (2019). Musical instrument categorization is highly sensitive to spectral properties of earlier sounds. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81(4), 1119-1126.
• Winn, M.B. & Stilp, C.E. (2019). "Phonetics and the Auditory System". In W. Katz & P. Assmann (eds). The Routledge Handbook of Phonetics, (New York: Routledge), pp. 164-192.
• Assgari, A.A., Theodore, R.M., & Stilp, C.E. (2019). Variability in talkers’ fundamental frequencies shapes context effects in speech perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 145(3), 1443-1454.

2018

• Assgari, A.A. (2018). Assessing the relationship between talker normalization and spectral contrast effects in speech perception. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky.
• Stilp, C.E., Kiefte, M., & Kluender, K.R. (2018). Discovering acoustic structure of novel sounds. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(4), 2460-2473.
• Stilp, C.E., & Assgari, A.A. (2018). Perceptual sensitivity to spectral properties in earlier sounds during speech categorization. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80(5), 1300-1310.

2017

• Stilp, C.E. (2017). Acoustic context alters vowel categorization in perception of noise-vocoded speech. Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 18(3), 465-481.
• Stilp, C.E., & Assgari, A.A. (2017). Consonant categorization exhibits a graded influence of surrounding spectral context. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(2), EL153-EL158.
• Llanos, F., Alexander, J.M., Stilp, C.E., & Kluender, K.R. (2017). Spectral entropy as an information-theoretic correlate of manner of articulation in American English. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 141(2), EL127-EL133.
• Stilp, C.E. (2017). "Speech". In: John Stein, J.S. (Ed.) Reference Module in Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Psychology, (Elsevier), pp. 1-13.

2016

• Stilp, C.E., Donaldson, G., Oh, S., & Kong, Y.-Y. (2016). Influences of noise-interruption and information-bearing acoustic changes on understanding simulated electric-acoustic speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140(5), 3971-3979.
• Stilp, C.E., Anderson, P.W., Assgari, A.A., Ellis, G.M., & Zahorik, P. (2016). Speech perception adjusts to stable spectrotemporal properties of the listening environment. Hearing Research, 341, 168-178.
• Stilp, C.E. & Alexander, J.M. (2016). Spectral contrast effects in vowel categorization by listeners with sensorineural hearing loss. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 26, 060003.
• Stilp, C.E., & Kluender, K.R. (2016). Stimulus statistics change sounds from near-indiscriminable to hyperdiscriminable. PLoS One 11(8): e0161001. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0161001

2015

• Assgari, A.A., & Stilp, C.E. (2015). Talker information influences spectral contrast effects in speech categorization. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 138(5), 3023-3032.
• Stilp, C.E., & Assgari, A.A. (2015). Languages across the world are efficiently coded by the auditory system. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 23, 060003.
• Stilp, C.E., Anderson, P.W., & Winn, M.B. (2015). Predicting contrast effects following reliable spectral properties in speech perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137(6), 3466-3476.
• Stilp, C.E., & Goupell, M.J. (2015). Spectral and temporal resolution of information-bearing acoustic changes for understanding vocoded sentences. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 137(2), 844-855.

2014

• Stilp, C.E., & Anderson, P.W. (2014). Modest, reliable spectral peaks in preceding sounds influence vowel perception. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 136(5), EL383-EL389.
• Stilp, C.E. (2014). Information-bearing acoustic change outperforms duration in predicting sentence intelligibility of full-spectrum and noise-vocoded sentences. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 135(3), 1518-1529.
• Stilp, C.E., & Lewicki, M.S. (2014). Statistical structure of speech sound classes is congruent with cochlear nucleus response properties. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 20, 050001.

2013

• Jiang, Y., Stilp, C.E., & Kluender, K.R. (2013). Cochlea-scaled entropy predicts intelligibility of Mandarin Chinese sentences. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 18, 060006.
• Stilp, C.E., Goupell, M.J., & Kluender, K.R. (2013). Speech perception in simulated electric hearing exploits information-bearing acoustic change. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 133(2), EL136-EL141.
• Kluender, K.R., Stilp, C.E., & Kiefte, M. (2013). “Perception of vowel sounds within a biologically realistic model of efficient coding”. In G. Morrison & P. Assmann (Eds.) Vowel Inherent Spectral Change, (Springer, Berlin), pp. 117-151.

2012

• Stilp, C.E., & Kluender, K.R. (2012). Efficient coding and statistically optimal weighting of covariance among acoustic attributes in novel sounds. PLoS ONE 7(1): e30845. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0030845

2011

• Stilp, C.E. (2011). The redundancy of phonemes in sentential context. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130(5), EL323-EL328.
• Stilp, C.E., & Kluender, K.R. (2011). Non-isomorphism in efficient coding of complex sound properties. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130(5), EL352-EL357.

2010

• Stilp, C.E., Alexander, J.M., Kiefte, M., & Kluender, K.R. (2010). Auditory color constancy: Calibration to reliable spectral properties across speech and nonspeech contexts and targets. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 72(2), 470-480.
• Stilp, C.E., Kiefte, M., Alexander, J.M., & Kluender, K.R. (2010). Cochlea-scaled spectral entropy predicts rate-invariant intelligibility of temporally distorted sentences. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 128(4), 2112-2126.
• Stilp, C.E., & Kluender, K.R. (2010). Cochlea-scaled spectral entropy, not consonants, vowels, or time, best predicts speech intelligibility. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 107(27), 12387-12392.
• Stilp, C.E., Rogers, T.T., & Kluender, K.R. (2010). Rapid efficient coding of correlated complex acoustic properties. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 107(50), 21914-21919.

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