Preprints/Under review

Cassano-Coleman, R. Y.*, Izen, S. C.*, & Piazza, E. A. (2024). Listeners systematically integrate tonal context to efficiently perform a variety of musical tasks, regardless of training. PsyArXiv. *equal contribution

 

Peer-reviewed publications

Izen, S. C., Cassano-Coleman, R. Y., & Piazza, E. A. (2023). Music as a window into real-world communication. Frontiers in Psychology, 14.

Piazza, E. A., Nencheva, M., & Lew-Williams, C. (2021). The development of communication across timescales. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 30, 459-467.

Piazza, E. A., Cohen, A., Trach, J., & Lew-Williams, C. (2021). Neural synchrony predicts children’s learning of novel words. Cognition, 214, 104752.

Nencheva, M., Piazza, E. A., & Lew-Williams, C. (2020). The moment-to-moment pitch dynamics of child-directed speech shape toddlers' attention and learning. Developmental Science, e12997.

Piazza, E. A., Hasenfratz, L., Hasson, U., & Lew-Williams, C. (2020). Infant and adult brains are coupled to the dynamics of natural communication. Psychological Science, 31, 6-17.

Piazza, E. A., Theunissen, F. E., Wessel, D., & Whitney, D. (2018). Rapid adaptation to the timbre of natural sounds. Scientific Reports, 8, 13826.

Piazza, E. A., Denison, R. N., & Silver, M. A. (2018). Recent cross-modal statistical learning influences visual perceptual selection. Journal of Vision, 18(3):1, 1-12.

Piazza, E. A., Iordan, M. C., & Lew-Williams, C. (2017). Mothers consistently alter their unique vocal fingerprints when communicating with infants. Current Biology, 27, 3162-3167.

Piazza, E. A. & Silver, M. A. (2017). Relative spatial frequency processing drives hemispheric asymmetry in conscious awareness. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:559.

Liu, Y., Piazza, E. A., Simony, E., Shewokis, P., Onaral, B., Hasson, U., & Ayaz, H. (2017). Measuring speaker-listener neural coupling with functional near infrared spectroscopy. Scientific Reports, 7, 43293.

Piazza, E. A. & Silver, M. A. (2014). Persistent hemispheric differences in the perceptual selection of spatial frequencies. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26(9), 2021-2027.

Banks, M. S., Cooper, E. A., & Piazza, E. A. (2014). Camera focal length and the perception of pictures. Ecological Psychology, 26, 1-17.

Piazza, E. A., Sweeny, T., Wessel, D., Silver, M. A., & Whitney, D. (2013). Humans use summary statistics to perceive auditory sequences. Psychological Science, 24 (8), 1389-1397.

Cooper, E. A., Piazza, E. A., & Banks, M. S. (2012). The perceptual basis of common photographic practice. Journal of Vision, 12(5):8, 1-14.

Denison, R. N., Piazza, E. A., & Silver, M. A. (2011). Predictive context influences perceptual selection during binocular rivalry. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 5:166, 1-11.

Navarra, J., Hartcher-O'Brien, J., Piazza, E. A., & Spence, C. (2009). Adaptation to audiovisual asynchrony modulates the speeded detection of sound. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 106, 9169-9173.

Massaro, D. W., Carreira-Perpinan, M. A., Merrill, D. J., Sterling, C., Bigler, S., Piazza, E., & Perlman, M. A. (2008). iGlasses: an automatic wearable speech supplement in face-to-face communication and classroom situations. In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2008), 197-198. V. Digalakis, A. Potamianos, M. Turk, R. Pieraccini, Y. Ivanov (eds.)

 

Selected conference presentations

Zeng, Q. R., Lilienthal, D., Iordan, C. R., White, A. S., & Piazza, E. A. (2025). Multidimensionality and individual differences in the perception of creativity in improvised narratives. Talk to be presented at the Society for Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (SPACA), New Haven, CT, March 13-15.

Cassano-Coleman, R., Izen, S., & Piazza, E. A. (2024). Listeners integrate tonal context to perceive meaningful events in naturalistic music, regardless of training. Poster presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, New York, New York, November 21-24.

Zeng, Q. R., Cai, Y., & Piazza, E. A. (2024). Stability and variability in speakers’ prosodic profiles across speaking styles. Poster presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, New York, New York, November 21-24.

Smith, C., Lalor, E., & Piazza, E. A. (2024). Neurophysiological indices of speech processing in interactive vs. passive listeners. Poster presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, New York, New York, November 21-24.

Cassano-Coleman, R., Lozano, C., Tagirisa, V., Jakubowski, K., & Piazza, E. A. (2024). Quantifying the influence of acoustic and musical features on perceived similarity of popular songs. Poster presented at the Society for Music Perception & Cognition, Alberta, Canada, July 25-27.

Cassano-Coleman, R., Cole, E., Jakubowski, K., Piazza, E. A. (2023). A complex relationship between emotional features of familiar music and evoked autobiographical memories. Poster presented at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, San Francisco, CA, November 16-19.

Cassano-Coleman, R., Cole, E., Jakubowski, K., & Piazza, E. A. (2023). Quantifying the influence of musical features on perceptual similarity of popular songs. Poster presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia, July 26-29.

Izen, S. C. & Piazza, E. A. (2023). Disrupting naturalistic temporal structure impacts musical memory, prediction, and segmentation. Poster presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Sydney, Australia, July 26-29.

Zeng, Q. R., Lilienthal, D., Iordan, M. C., White, A. S., & Piazza, E. A. (2023). Adapting a language transformer model to capture subjective human judgments of narrative creativity. Poster* presented at the Graduate Research Symposium, University of Rochester, March 23.

*Winner of Best Poster Award

Cassano, R., Williams, J., Iordan, M. C., Hasson, U., & Piazza, E. A. (2022). Hierarchical processing of naturalistic music during production and perception. Poster presented at the Society for Music Perception & Cognition, Portland, OR, August 4-7.

Zeng, Q. R., Lilienthal, D., Iordan, M. C., & Piazza, E. A. (2022). Using a language transformer model to capture creativity in improvised narratives. Talk presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 27-30.

Piazza, E. A., Hasenfratz, L., Hasson, U., & Lew-Williams, C. (2022). Infant and adult brains represent the dynamics of social behavior in distinct and shared ways. Pre-conference workshop talk presented at the 23rd International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS), July 7-10.

Zeng, Q. R., Lilienthal, D., Iordan, M. C., & Piazza, E. A. (2022). Using a language transformer model to capture creativity in improvised narratives. Poster presented at the 7th Meeting of the Society for the Neuroscience of Creativity (SfNC), Virtual meeting, May 12-13.

Piazza, E. A., Cassano, R., Iordan, M. C., Williams, J., Izen, S., & Hasson, U. (2021). A naturalistic approach to studying temporal processing during musical performance. Talk presented at the 181st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Seattle, WA, November 29-December 3.

Piazza, E. A., Cohen, A., & Lew-Williams, C. (2020). Neural synchrony predicts novel word learning from storybooks. Talk presented at the 22nd Biennial International Congress of Infant Studies, Virtual conference, July 6-9.

Piazza, E. A., Cohen, A., & Lew-Williams, C. (2019). Neural synchrony predicts novel word learning from storybooks. Talk presented at the 44th Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, November 7-10.

Piazza, E. A., Iordan, M. C., Hasenfratz, L., Hasson, U., & Lew-Williams, C. (2019). Using naturalistic paradigms to study how adult speakers accommodate infant listeners’ unique processing demands. Invited talk presented at the 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Louisville, KY, May 13-18.

Piazza, E. A., Hasenfratz, L., Hasson, U., & Lew-Williams, C. (2018). Infant and adult brains are coupled to the dynamics of social behavior during real-life communication. Talk* presented at the 48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, November 3-7.

*Selected to chair talk session

Nencheva, M., Piazza, E. A., & Lew-Williams, C. (2018). The real-time dynamics of child-directed speech: Using pupillometry to evaluate children’s processing of natural pitch contours. Talk presented at the 43rd Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, November 2-4.

Piazza, E. A., Hasenfratz, L., Hasson, U., & Lew-Williams, C. (2018). Infant and adult brains are coupled to the dynamics of social behaviors during naturalistic communication. Talk presented at the 43rd Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, November 2-4.

Piazza, E. A., Hasenfratz, L., Hasson, U., & Lew-Williams, C. (2018). Neural coupling between infants and adults supports successful communication. Poster presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Madison, WI, July 25-28.

Piazza, E. A., Hasenfratz, L., Hasson, U., & Lew-Williams, C. (2018). Neural coupling between infants and adults underlies naturalistic communication. Talk presented at the 21st Biennial International Congress of Infant Studies, Philadelphia, PA, June 30-July 3.

Piazza, E. A., Iordan, M. C., Hasson, U., & Lew-Williams, C. (2017). The importance of “motherese”: Early drivers of successful communication. Poster presented at the 47th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C., November 11-15.

Piazza, E. A., Iordan, M. C., & Lew-Williams, C. (2017). Mothers consistently alter the unique statistical fingerprint of their voice when communicating with their infants. Talk presented at the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Advances in Statistical Learning, Bilbao, Spain, June 28-30.

Piazza, E. A., Iordan, M. C., & Lew-Williams, C. (2017). Timbre code-switching: How mothers alter their unique vocal statistics to communicate with their children. Talk presented at the 2017 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX, April 6-8.

Piazza, E. A., Theunissen, F. E., Wessel, D. & Whitney, D. (2016). Rapid adaptation to the timbre of natural sounds. Poster* presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, November 12-16.

*Presentation selected for inclusion in SfN’s Hot Topics news release

Piazza, E. A., Theunissen, F. E., Wessel, D. & Whitney, D. (2016). Listeners rapidly adapt to musical timbre. Poster presented at the 14th Meeting of the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, San Francisco, CA, July 5-9.

Piazza, E. A., Denison, R. N., Sweeny, T., Sheynin, J., Silver, M. A., & Whitney, D. (2014). The optimal time scale of statistical summary in human auditory perception. Talk presented at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C., November 15-19.

Piazza, E. A., Sweeny, T. D., Wessel, D., Silver, M. A., & Whitney, D. (2013). Auditory ensemble coding: an efficient mechanism for perceiving tone sequences. Talk presented at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, August 8-11.

Piazza, E., Denison, R., Schram, M., & Silver, M. (2013). Recently learned multimodal associations influence visual perceptual selection. Poster presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, April 13-16.

Piazza, E., Denison, R. N., Schram, M., & Silver, M. A. (2012). Implicit multisensory statistical learning influences visual perceptual selection. Poster presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, May 11-16.

Piazza, E., Sweeny, T., Wessel, D., & Whitney, D. (2011). Ensemble coding in audition. Talk presented at the 12th International Multisensory Research Forum, Fukuoka, Japan, October 17-20.