L.A.B. Presentations

998days since
The L.A.B. Lab Started

Publications

Monty: I'm told you're a writer too. Do you write poems?
I:     No, I wish I could. It's just thoughts really.  
Monty: Have you published?  
I:     No no.  









Journal Articles
  • Fenn, K. M., Shintel, H., Atkins, A. S., Skipper, J. I., Bond, V. C., & Nusbaum, H. C. (2011). When less is heard than meets the ear: Change deafness in a telephone conversation. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 99999(1).
  • Zevin, J. D., Yang, J., Skipper, J. I., & McCandliss, B. D. (2010). Domain general change detection accounts for "dishabituation" effects in temporal-parietal regions in functional magnetic resonance imaging studies of speech perception. Journal of Neuroscience, 30(3). 1110-1117. PMID: 20089919 |PDF|
  • Dick, A. S., Goldin-Meadow, S., Hasson, U., Skipper, J. I., & Small, S. L. (2009). Co-speech gestures influence neural activity in brain regions associated with processing semantic information. Human Brain Mapping, 30(11). 3509-3526. PMID: 19384890 |PDF|
  • Skipper, J. I., Goldin-Meadow, S., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2009). Gestures orchestrate brain networks for language understanding. Current Biology, 19(8). 661-667. PMID: 19327997 |PDF|
  • |Press in Science News|
  • Hasson, U., Skipper, J. I., Wilde, M. J., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2008). Improving the analysis, storage and sharing of neuroimaging data using relational databases and distributed computing. NeuroImage, 32. 693-706. PMID: 17964812 |PDF|
  • Hasson, U., Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2007). Abstract coding of audiovisual speech: Beyond sensory representation. Neuron, 56. 1116-1126. PMID: 18093531 |PDF|
  • |EurekAlert Press|
  • Skipper, J. I., Goldin-Meadow, S., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2007). Speech associated gestures, Broca's area, and the human mirror system. Invited paper in Brain and Language:  Special issue on Gesture, Language, and Brain, 101(3), 260-277. PMID: 17533001 |PDF|
  • |Press in Scientific American|
  • Skipper, J. I., van Wassenhove, V., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2007). Hearing lips and seeing voices: How cortical areas supporting speech production mediate audiovisual speech perception. Cerebral Cortex, 17(10), 2387-2399. PMID: 17218482 |PDF|
  • Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2005). Listening to talking faces: Motor cortical activation during speech perception. NeuroImage, 25(1), 76-89. PMID: 15734345 |PDF|
  • Nusbaum, H. C., Skipper, J. I., & Small, S. L. (2001). A sensory-attentional account of speech perception. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24(5), 939-1031. |PDF|

Book Chapters
  • Skipper, J. I., Nusbaum, H. C., & Small, S. L. (2006). Lending a helping hand to hearing: Another motor theory of speech perception. In M. A. Arbib (Ed.), Action to Language Via the Mirror Neuron System. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press. |PDF|
  • Skipper, J. I., & Small, S. L. (2005). fMRI studies of language. In K. Brown (Ed.), The Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics: 2nd Edition. Oxford: Elsevier Science. |PDF|

Submitted
  • Hlustik, P., Opavsky, J., Mayer, M., Bezdekova, D., Solodkin, A., Small, S. L., Skipper, J. I., Herzig, R., Otruba, P., Kocher, M., & Kanovsky, P. (Submitted) Impact of voice guidance and emotional prosody on cortical activation during finger movement in stroke patients: an fMRI study.
  • Skipper, J. I., & Sebanz, N. (Submitted). Dynamic functional reorganization of the brain when observed individual actions become joint actions.  
  • Zevin, J. D., Yang, J., Skipper, J. I., & McCandliss, B. D. (Submitted). Temporoparietal responses to behaviorally relevant variability in speech.  

In Preparation






  • Hlustik, P., Skipper, J. I., et. al. (In preparation). Somatotopic mapping of dorsal and ventral premotor cortex using sequential pointing with the eyes, finger, foot, and tongue.
  • Longo, M. R. & Skipper, J. I. (In preparation). The mosey effect:  Slow words slow down and fast words speed up your body. 
  • Skipper, J. I., Hasson, U., Chen, E. E., & Small, S. L. (In preparation). Revealing tuning functions with brain imaging data using a peak and valley analysis.
  • Skipper, J. I. & Zevin, J. D. (In preparation). The neurobiology of communication in real-world contexts.  
  • Skipper, J. I. & Zevin, J. D. (In preparation). Preceding discourse context is used by the brain to predict forthcoming, um, words.