Recent published research by our team (click on the image to see the full article):
Correia, S., Rato, A., Ge, Y., Fernandes, J. D., Kachlicka, M., Saito, K., & Rebuschat, P. (2025). Effects of phonetic training and cognitive aptitude on the perception and production of non-native speech contrasts.Studies in Second Language Acquisition.
Chen, Y., Tierney, A. T., & Pfordresher, P. Q.(2025). Speech-to-song transformation in perception and production. Cognition, 254, 105933.
Kachlicka, M., Symons, A. E., Saito, K., Dick, F., & Tierney, A. T. (2024). Tone langauge experience enhances dimension-selective attention and subcortical encoding but not cortical entrainment to pitch. Imaging Neuroscience, 2, 1-19.
Kachlicka, M., & Tierney, A. T. (2024). Voice actors show enhanced neural tracking of pitch, prosody perception, and music perception. Cortex, 178, 213-222.
Kubit, B. M., Deng, C., Tierney, A. T., & Margulis, E. H.(2024). Rapid learning and long-term memory in the speech-to-song illusion. Music Perception, 41(5), 348-359.
Ozaki, Y., Tierney, A. T., Pfordresher, P. Q., McBride, J. M., Benetos, E., Proutsukova, P., ... & Savage, P. E (2024). Globally, songs and instrumental melodies are slower, higher, and use more stable pitches than speech: A registered report. Science Advances, 10, adm9797.
Kachlicka, M., Patel, A. D., Liu, F. & Tierney, A. T. (2024). Weighting of cues to categorization of sound versus speech in tone-language and non-tone-langauge speakers. Cognition, 245, 105757.
Divjak, D., Sun, H., & Milin, P. (2024). Physiological responses and cognitive behaviours: Measures of heart rate variability index language knowledge. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 69, 101177.
Saito, K., Kachlicka, M., Suzukida, Y., Mora-Plaza, I., Ruan, Y., Tierney, A. (2024).Auditory processing as perceptual, cognitive, and motoric abilities underlying successful second language acquisition: Interaction model. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 50(1), 119-138.
Caprini, F., Zhao, S., Chait, M., Agus, T., Pomper, U., Tierney, A. T., Dick, F. (2024).Generalization of auditory expertise in audio engineers and instrumental musicians.Cognition, 244, 105696.
Petrova, K., Jasmin, K., Saito, K., Tierney, A. (2023).Extensive residence in a second language environment modifies perceptual strategies for suprasegmental categorization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 49(12), 1943-1955.
Symons, A. E., Holt, L. L., Tierney, A. (2023).Informational masking influences segmental and suprasegmental speech categorization. Psychonomic Bulletin Overview, 1-11.
Symons, A. E., Dick, F., Tierney, A. (2023).Salient sounds distort time perception and production. Psychonomic Bulletin Review, 1-11.
Guerra, G., Tijms, J., Tierney, A., Vaessen, A., Dick, F., Bonte, M. (2023).Auditory attention influences trajectories of symbol-speech sound learning in children with and without dyslexia.Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 237, 105761.
Guerra, G., Tierney, A., Tijms, J., Vaessen, A., Bonte, M., Dick, F. (2023).Attentional modulation of neural sound tracking in children with and without dyslexia. Developmental Science, 27(1), e13420.
Symons, A. E., Tierney, A. (2023).Musical experience is linked to enhanced dimension-selective attention to pitch and increased primary weighting during suprasegmental categorization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition.
Shao, Y., Saito, K., Tierney, A. (2023).How does having a good ear promote instructed second language development? Roles of domain-general auditory processing in choral repetition training.TESOL Quarterly, 57(1), 33-63.
Saito, K., Macmillan, K., Kachlicka, M., Kunihara, T., & Minematsu, N. (2023). Automated assessment of second language comprehensibility: Review, training, validation, and generalization studies. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 45(1), 234-263.
Saito, K., Petrova, K., Suzukida, Y., Kachlicka, M., Tierney, A. (2022).Training auditory processing promotes second language speech acquisition. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 48(12), 1410-1426.
Saito, K., Kachlicka, M., Suzukida, Y., Petrova, K., Lee, B. J., Tierney, A. T. (2022).Auditory precision hypothesis-L2: Dimension-specific relationships between auditory processing and second language segmental learning.Cognition, 229, 105236.
Jasmin, K., Tierney, A., Obasih, C., Holt, L. (2022).Short-term perceptual reweighting in suprasegmental categorization. Psychonomic Bulletin Review, 30, 373-382.
Saito, K., Hanzawa, K., Petrova, K., Kachlicka, M., Suzukida, Y., Tierney, A. (2022).Incidental and multimodal high variability phonetic training: Potential, limits, and future directions.Language Learning, 72(4), 1049-1091.
Kachlicka, M., Laffere, A., Dick, F, & Tierney, A. (2022). Slow phase-locked modulations support selective attention to sound. NeuroImage, 252, 119024.
Saito, K., & Tierney, A. T. (2022). Domain-general auditory processing as a conceptual and measurment framework for second language speech learning aptitude: A test-retest reliability study. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 46(4), 1206-1230.
Saito, K., Macmillan, O. K., Kroeger, S., Magne, V., Takizawa, K., Kachlicka, M., & Tierney, A. (2022).Roles of domain-general auditory processing in spoken second language vocabulary attainment in adulthood. Applied Psycholinguistics, 43(3), 581-606.
Symons, A. E., Dick, F., & Tierney, A. T. (2021). Dimension-selective attention and dimensional salience modulate cortical tracking of acoustic dimensions. NeuroImage, 244, 118544.
Tierney, A., Patel, A., Jasmin, K., Breen. M. (2021).Individual differences in perception of the speech-to-song illusion are linked to musical aptitude but not musical training. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 47(12), 1681-1697.
Laffere, A., Dick, F., Holt. L. L., &Tierney, A. T. (2021). Attentional modulation of neural entrainment to sound streams in children with and without ADHD. NeuroImage, 224, 117396.
Mitchell, A., Oberman, T., Aletta, F., Kachlicka, M., Lionello, M., Erfanian, M., & Kang, J. (2021).Investigating urban soundscapes of the COVID-19 lockdown: A predictive soundscape modelling approach.The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 150, 4474-4488.
Jasmin, K.,Sun, H., & Tierney, A. T. (2021). Effects of language experience on domain-general perceptual strategies. Cognition, 104481.
Jasmin, K., Dick, F., & Tierney, A. T. (2020). The Multidimensional Battery of Prosody Perception (MBOPP). Wellcome Open Research, 5(4).
Laffere, A., Dick, F., & Tierney, A. T. (2020). Effects of auditory selective attention on neural phase: individual differences and short-term training. NeuroImage, 213, 116717.
Jasmin, K., Dick, F., Holt, L. L., & Tierney, A. T. (2019). Tailored Perception: Individual’s speech and music perception strategies fit their perceptual abilities. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 149(5), 914-934.
Holt, L. L., Tierney, A. T., Guerra, G., Laffere, A., & Dick, F. (2018). Dimension-selective attention as a possible driver of dynamic, context-dependent reweighting in speech processing. Hearing Research, 366, 50-64.