Bob McMurray CV

Research Interests

On-line spoken word recognition and speech perception in typical adults and in people with language impairment and cochlear implants; the development of speech perception and word learning in infants and children; use of eye tracking, cognitive neuroscience techniques (event related potentials and inter-cranial recording), and computational modeling of perception and perceptual development

Primary Research Area

Developmental Science

Training Areas

Behavioral & Cognitive Neuroscience

Cognition

Research Group

Developmental Psychopathology

Developmental Science

Representative Publications

Kim, H., Klien-Packard, J., Sorensen, E., Oleson, J., Tomblin, J.B., and McMurray, B. (in press) Inconsistent Speech Categorization in School-Age Children with Language and Reading Disabilities. Cognition. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/un6bx_v3

McMurrary, B., Smith, F. X., Huffman, M., Rooff, K., Muegge+, J. B., Jeppsen, C., Kutlu, E., & Colby, S. E. M. (2024). Fundamental Dimensions of Real-Time Word Recognition in Challenging Conditions: Insights from Cochlear Implant Users. Nature Communications, 15(7382). www.osf.io/fmy2a

Colby, S., and McMurray, B. (2023) Efficiency of spoken word recognition slows across the adult lifespan. Cognition, 240, 105588. https://osf.io/zthbw/

McMurray, B., Apfelbaum, K.S., Colby+++, S., and Tomblin, J.B. (2023) Understanding language processing in variable populations on their own terms: towards a functionalist psycholinguistics of individual differences, development and disorders. Invited review in Applied Psycholinguistics, 44(4), 565-592.