News

March 2026: Our manuscript "Expertise provides resilience to sound source variability in music perception" was accepted for publication in Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics! This work was done in collaboration with Dr. Anya Shorey-Smith, Dr. Stilp's most recent doctoral student.

February 2026: Our manuscript "Speaking rate normalization with and without spatial segregation of simultaneous context sentences" was accepted for publication in JASA Express Letters! This work was the senior honors thesis of one of Dr. Stilp's previous students, Dawson Stephens.

You can now read the published article here.

February 2026: We presented two posters at the spring ARO meeting in San Juan: "Simulated Peripheral Adaptation Accounts for Spectral Context Effects in Speech Perception" (Maxwell, Winn, & Stilp) and "The Consistency of Spectral Contrast and Auditory Enhancement Effects at Higher Frequencies in Speech Perception" (Stilp & Winn).

January 2026: Our article "Independence of spectral contrast effects across different frequency regions in speech perception" was published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America! 

July 2025: Our article "Multiple timescales of context influence perceptual sensitivity to common pairings of musical pitch and timbre" was published in PLoS One! This study started as Isabel Adames' senior research project then continued growing and evolving into a four-experiment story with a LOT of statistical analyses.

May 2025: We presented two posters at the spring Acoustical Society meeting in New Orleans: "Acoustic variability shapes adaptation to single versus multiple sound sources" (Shorey, Criner, Lim, Dobbs, Fuerstenberg, & Stilp) and "Examining the consistency of spectral context effects across frequency regions in speech perception" (Stilp & Winn).

April 2025: Dr. Stilp's final doctoral student, Anya Shorey-Smith, successfully defended her dissertation "Evaluating the Relationship between Musical Sophistication and Melodic and Harmonic Expectations" at the University of Louisville. Congratulations, Anya!

February 2025: We presented our poster "The Consistency of Spectral Context Effects in Speech Perception by Cochlear Implant Users" at the ARO conference in Orlando.

January 2025: The Auditory Lab renovations are complete, and we have our sound booth!