Dr. Paul Luce

Dr. Paul Luce

Professor
Ph.D., Indiana University
Office: 206B/342 Park Hall
Phone: (716) 645-0180 / 645-0226
E-mail: luce@buffalo.edu
Url: Personally maintained website

 

Summary of Research Interests:

Work in our laboratory is aimed at understanding the processes and representations involved in the human's remarkable capacity to recognize spoken language so rapidly and accurately. In addition to our ongoing work on activation and competition in spoken word recognition, we are continuing our investigation of probabilistic phonotactics. Our recent work in this area focuses on learning of discontinuous dependencies among various types of phonological units. We also continue our research on the abstractness and specificity of representations of lexical form and the learning of speaker-specific allophonic information in continuous speech.

Representative Publications:

  • Clarke-Davidson, C. M., Luce, P. A., & Sawusch, J. R. (In press). Does perceptual learning in speech reflect changes in phonetic category representation or decision bias? Perception & Psychophysics.
  • Ju, M., & Luce, P. A. (2006). Representational specificity of within-category phonetic variation in the long-term mental lexicon. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 32, 120-138.
  • Auer, E. T., & Luce, P. A. (2005). Probabilistic phonotactics and spoken word recognition. In D. B., Pisoni & R. E. Remez (Eds.), Handbook of Speech Perception, pp. 610--630.
  • Luce, P. A., & McLennan, C. (2005). Spoken word recognition: The challenge of variation. In D. B., Pisoni & R. E. Remez (Eds.), Handbook of Speech Perception, pp 591-609.
  • Clarke, C. M., and Luce, P. A. (2005). Perceptual adaptation to speaker characteristics: VOT boundaries in stop voicing categorization. Proceedings of the ISCA Workshop on Plasticity in Speech Perception, 23-26.
  • McLennan, C. T., Luce, P. A., & Charles-Luce, J. (2005). Representation of lexical …..form: Evidence from studies of sublexical ambiguity. Journal of Experimental .Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 31, 1308-1314.
  • Lambert, B. L., Lin, S., Toh, S. W., Luce, P. A., McLennan, C. T., La Vigne, R., Fisher, W. ..M., Dickey, L. W., & Senders, J. W. (2005). Frequency and neighborhood effects on auditory perception of drug names in noise. Proceedings of Noise-Con 2005, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • McLennan, C. T., & Luce, P. A. (2005). Examining the time course of indexical specificity effects in spoken word recognition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 31, 306-321.
  • Ju, M., & Luce, P. A. (2004). Parallel activation of native and second language subphonetic cues during bilingual word recognition. Psychological Science, 15, 314-318.
  • Vitevitch, M. S., & Luce, P. (2004). Phonotactic probability influences repetition latency for nonwords. Journal of Memory and Language, 52, 193-204.
  • Luce, P. A., McLennan, C., & Charles-Luce, J. (2003). Abstractness and specificity in spoken word recognition: Indexical and allophonic variability in long-term repetition priming. In J. Bowers & C. Marsolek (Eds.), Rethinking implicit memory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 197-214.
  • McLennan, C., Luce, P. A., & Charles-Luce, J. (2003) Representation of lexical form. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 29, 529-553.
  • Jusczyk, P. W., & Luce, P. A. (2002). Speech perception. In Pashler, H., & Yantis, S. (Eds.), Stevens’ Handbook of Experimental Psychology, Volume 1: Sensation and Perception (3rd. ed.). New York: John Wiley and Sons, 493-536.
  • Luce, P. A., & Large, N. (2001). Phonotactics, neighborhood density, and entropy in spoken word recognition. Language and Cognitive Processes, 16, 565-581. Luce, P. A., Goldinger, S. D., & Vitevitch, M. S. (2000). It's good . . . But is it ART? [Commentary on the article Merging information in speech recognition: Feedback is never necessary]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 23, 336.
  • Luce, P. A., Goldinger, S. D., Auer, E. T., & Vitevitch, M. S. (2000). Phonetic priming, neighborhood activation, and PARSYN. Perception & Psychophysics, 62, 615-625.
  • Vitevitch, M. S., & Luce, P. A. (1999). Probabilistic phonotactics and neighborhood activation in spoken word recognition. Journal of Memory and Language, 40, 374-408.
  • Vitevitch, M. S., & Luce, P. A. (1998). When words compete: Levels of processing in spoken word perception. Psychological Science, 9, 325-329.
  • Luce, P. A., & Pisoni, D. B. (1998). Recognizing spoken words: The neighborhood activation model. Ear and Hearing, 19, 1-36.
  • Jusczyk, P. W., Luce, P. A., & Charles-Luce, J. (1994). Infants’ sensitivity to phonotactic patterns in the native language. Journal of Memory and Language, 33, 630-645.
  • Goldinger, S. D., Luce, P. A., & Pisoni, D. B. (1989). Priming lexical neighbors of spoken words: Effects of competition and inhibition. Journal of Memory and Language, 28, 501-518.