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Wednesday Bushong
@wbushong.bsky.social
PI of the Language & Cognition Lab at Wellesley College. Assistant Professor of Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences and Psychology
In case you missed my #CogSci2026 poster on memory for past input during spoken word recognition, here it is! You can check out the paper here: osf.io/preprints/ps.... And stay tuned for more results in speech perception 👀
Hey #CogSci2026! Join an all-star lineup Wednesday 1-2:30 for "Creating and Sustaining Cognitive Science Higher Education Programs" underline.io/events/516/s... @cogscisociety.bsky.social
Due to an issue with OSF, PsyArXiv is currently only able to "accept" manuscripts. If papers need to be revised before acceptance - for instance, due to not meeting our server's policies (blog.psyarxiv.com/about-psyarx...), we will hold them in our queue until the OSF implements a fix.
New from my lab: can listeners adapt to shifted accents when disambiguating information arrives later in the signal? Answer: Maybe...? For a variety of methodological reasons, these effects can be small & hard to detect. More here: journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/...
The role of sentence context in perceptual learning of speech | Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America
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New work from my lab: using speech discrimination experiments, we find evidence that listeners can maintain uncertainty about the category identity of past speech, but not acoustic details. Will present this as a poster at CogSci this July--check out the paper here! doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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Excited to share my new paper out in Glossa Psycholinguistics! It's an effort to computationally formalize theories of how people may (or may not) maintain gradient linguistic representations over time; we find strong evidence in favor of maintenance over long perceptual distances.
Next up we have Bushong with 'Strong evidence for maintenance of gradient representations during language processing'. Access it here: escholarship.org/uc/item/0ds9...
Excited to share my new paper with @hlplab.bsky.social on the role of contextual informativity in spoken word recognition! Check it out in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition here: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
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