London Vocal Communication Laboratory
The most up to date list of papers, chapters and pre-prints from the VoCoLab can be found on Google Scholar
Older papers (2020 and earlier), with links:
Contributions from VoCoLab members are highlighted in caps.
Pre-prints
BELYK, M., Brown, R., Beal, D. S., Roebroeck, A., MCGETTIGAN, C., GULDNER, S., & Kotz, S. A. (2020). Human specific neurophenotype integrates laryngeal and respiratory components of voice motor control. PsyArXiv https://psyarxiv.com/pc4uh/
BRADSHAW, A. R., & MCGETTIGAN, C. Instrumental learning in social interactions: trait learning from faces and voices. PsyArXiv https://psyarxiv.com/7awje/
LAVAN, N., & MCGETTIGAN, C. (2019). Toward a unified account of person perception from familiar and unfamiliar voices. PsyArXiv https://psyarxiv.com/shxa6
LAVAN, N., Mileva, M., Burton, M., Young, A., & MCGETTIGAN, C. (2020). Trait evaluations of faces and voices: Comparing within-and between-person variability. PsyArXiv https://psyarxiv.com/3rjc4/
PAYNE, B., LAVAN, N., KNIGHT, S., & MCGETTIGAN, C. (2019). Perceptual prioritisation of self-associated voices. PsyArXiv https://psyarxiv.com/xdw6t/
Tsantani, M., Kriegeskorte, N., Storrs, K., Williams, A. L., MCGETTIGAN, C., & Garrido, L. (2020). FFA and OFA encode distinct types of face identity information. bioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.05.12.090878
2020
GULDNER, S., Nees, F., MCGETTIGAN, C. (2020) Vocomotor and Social Brain Networks Work Together to Express Social Traits in Voices. Cerebral Cortex https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhaa175
LAVAN, N., Mileva, M., & MCGETTIGAN, C. (2020). How does familiarity with a voice affect trait judgements?. British Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12454
2019
Johnson, J., McGettigan, C., & Lavan, N. (2019). Comparing unfamiliar voice and face identity perception using identity sorting tasks. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021820938659
LAVAN, N., KNIGHT, S. & MCGETTIGAN, C. (2019). Listeners form average-based representations of individual voice identities – even when they have never heard the average. Nature Communications 10, 2404. Link
LAVAN, N., KNIGHT, S., Hazan, V., & MCGETTIGAN, C. (in press). The effects of high variability training on voice identity learning. Cognition 193, 104026. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104026
LAVAN, N., Burton, A. M., Scott, S. K., & MCGETTIGAN, C. (2019). Flexible voices: Identity perception from variable vocal signals. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 26, 90-102. Link
LAVAN, N., Burston, L. F., Ladwa, P., Merriman, S. E., Knight, S., & MCGETTIGAN, C. (2019). Breaking voice identity perception: Expressive voices are more confusable for listeners. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72(9), 2240-2248. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021819836890
LAVAN, N., Domone, A., Fisher, B., Kenigzstein, N., Scott, S. K., & MCGETTIGAN, C. (2019). Speaker Sex Perception from Spontaneous and Volitional Nonverbal Vocalizations. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 43(1), 1-22. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10919-018-0289-0
LAVAN, N., Merriman, S. E., Ladwa, P., Burston, L., KNIGHT, S., & MCGETTIGAN, C. (2019). “Please sort these sounds into 2 identities”: Effects of task instructions on performance in voice sorting studies. British Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12416
Tsantani, M., Kriegeskorte, N., MCGETTIGAN, C., & Garrido, L. (2019). Faces and voices in the brain: RSA reveals modality-general person-identity representations in the STS. NeuroImage 201, 116004. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.07.017
2018
Agnew, Z. K., MCGETTIGAN, C., Banks, B., Scott, S.K. (2018). Group and individual variability in speech production networks during delayed auditory feedback. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Link
Agnew, Z. K., Banissy, M. J., MCGETTIGAN, C., & Scott, S.K. (2018). Investigating the neural basis of theta burst stimulation to premotor cortex on emotional vocalisation perception: A combined TMS-fMRI study. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 28, 150. Link
LAVAN, N., Short, B., Wilding, A., & MCGETTIGAN, C. (2018). Impoverished encoding of speaker identity in spontaneous laughter. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39, 139-145. Link/PDF
KNIGHT, S., LAVAN, N., KANBER, E., & MCGETTIGAN, C. (2018). The social code of speech prosody must be specific and generalizable. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (27), E6103. Link
MCGETTIGAN, C., & Tremblay, P. (2018). Links between perception and production: Examining the roles of motor and premotor cortices in understanding speech. In G.M. Gaskell, & S-A. Rueschemeyer (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Oxford University Press. Link/PDF
2017
CAREY, D., Miquel, M.E., Evans, B.G., Adank, P. & MCGETTIGAN, C. (2017). Functional brain outcomes of L2 speech learning emerge during sensorimotor transformation. NeuroImage, 159, 18-31. Link/PDF
CAREY, D., Miquel, M. E., Evans, B. G., Adank, P., & MCGETTIGAN, C. (2017). Vocal tract images reveal neural representations of sensorimotor transformation during speech imitation. Cerebral Cortex, 27(5), 3064–3079. Link/PDF
Evans, S., & MCGETTIGAN, C. (2017). Comprehending auditory speech: Previous and potential contributions of functional MRI. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 32(7), 829-846. Link/PDF
Kuhn, L. K., Wydell, T., LAVAN, N., MCGETTIGAN, C., & Garrido, L. (2017). Similar representations of emotions across faces and voices. Emotion, 17(6), 912-937. Link/PDF
LAVAN, N., Rankin, G., Lorking, N., Scott, S.K., & MCGETTIGAN, C. (2017). Neural correlates of the affective properties of spontaneous and volitional laughter types. Neuropsychologia, 95, 30-39. Link/PDF
MCGETTIGAN, C., Jasmin, K., Eisner, F., Agnew, Z., Josephs, O., Calder, A., Jessop, R., Lawson, R., Spielmann, M., & Scott, S.K. (2017). You talkin' to me? Communicative talker gaze activates left-lateralized superior temporal cortex during perception of degraded speech. Neuropsychologia, 100, 51-63. Link/PDF
2016
CAREY, D., & MCGETTIGAN, C. (2016). Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain and vocal tract: applications to the study of speech production and language learning. Neuropsychologia, 98, 201-211. Link/PDF
Evans, S., MCGETTIGAN, C., Agnew, Z.K., Rosen, S., Scott, S.K. (2016) Getting the cocktail party started: masking effects in speech perception. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 28(3), 483-500. Link/PDF
Jasmin, K., MCGETTIGAN,C., Agnew Z., LAVAN, N., Oliver, J., Cummins, F. & Scott, S. K. (2016). Cohesion and joint speech - right hemisphere contributions to synchronized vocal production. Journal of Neuroscience 36, 4669-4680. Link/PDF
LAVAN, N. & MCGETTIGAN, C. (2016) Increased discriminability of authenticity from multimodal laughter is driven by auditory information. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70(10), 2159-2168. Link/PDF
LAVAN, N., Scott, S. K. & MCGETTIGAN, C. (2016) Impaired generalization of speaker identity in the perception of familiar and unfamiliar voices. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(2), 1604-1614. Link/PDF
LAVAN, N., Scott, S. K. & MCGETTIGAN, C. (2016). Laugh like you mean it: Authentic emotional experience modulates acoustic, physiological and perceptual properties of laughter. Journal of Nonverbal Behaviour 40, 133-149. Link/PDF
MCGETTIGAN, C. (2016) Commentary on “Neural correlates of mirth and laughter: A direct electrical cortical stimulation study” by Yamao and colleagues. Cortex 75, 241–243. Link/PDF
Meekings, S.*, Evans, S.*, LAVAN, N., Boebinger, D., Krieger-Redwood, K., Cooke, M. & Scott S. K. (2016). Distinct neural system recruited during speech production in different masking sounds. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140(1), 8-19. Link/PDF
Pisanski, K., Cartei, V., MCGETTIGAN, C., Raine, J., & Reby, D. (2016). Voice Modulation: A Window into the Origins of Human Vocal Control?. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 20(4), 304-318. Link/PDF
2015
Adank, P., MCGETTIGAN, C., Kotz, S. (2015) Editorial: Current research and emerging directions on the cognitive and neural organization of speech processing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9, 305. Link/PDF
LAVAN, N.*, Lima, C.F.*, Harvey, H., Scott, S.K., MCGETTIGAN, C. (2015) I thought that I heard you laughing: Contextual facial expressions modulate the perception of authentic laughter and crying. Cognition & Emotion, 29(5), 935-944. Link/PDF
Lima, C.F.*, LAVAN, N.*, Evans, S., Agnew, Z., Halpern, A.R., Shanmugalingam, P., Meekings, S., Boebinger, D., Ostarek, M., MCGETTIGAN, C., Warren, J.E., Scott, S.K. (2015) Feel the Noise: Relating Individual Differences in Auditory Imagery to the Structure and Function of Sensorimotor Systems. Cerebral Cortex, 25, 4638-4650. Link/PDF
MCGETTIGAN, C. (2015) The Social Life of Voices: studying the neural bases for the expression and perception of the self and others during spoken communication. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 9, 129. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2015.00129. Link/PDF
MCGETTIGAN, C., Walsh, E., Jessop, R., Agnew, Z.K., Sauter, D.A., Warren, J.E., Scott, S.K. (2013) Individual differences in laughter perception reveal roles for mentalising and sensorimotor systems in the evaluation of emotional authenticity. Cerebral Cortex, 25, 246-257. Link/PDF
Scott, S.K., MCGETTIGAN, C. (2015) The Voice: From Identity to Interactions. APA Handbook of Nonverbal Communication. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Link/PDF
2014
Agnew, Z.K., Van de Koot, H., MCGETTIGAN, C., Scott, S.K. (2014). Do sentences with unaccusative verbs involve syntactic movement? Evidence from neuroimaging. Language and Cognitive Processes, 29, 1035-1045. Link/PDF
Kyong, J., Scott, S.K., Rosen, S., Howe, T., Agnew, Z.K., MCGETTIGAN, C. (2014). Exploring the roles of spectral detail and intonation contour in speech intelligibility: An fMRI study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 26, 1748-1763. Link/PDF
LAVAN, N., Lima, C.F. (2014) Neurocognitive Mechanisms for Vocal Emotions: Sounds, Meaning, Action. Journal of Neuroscience 34, 12950-12952. Link/PDF
MCGETTIGAN, C., Rosen, S., Scott, S.K. (2014). Lexico-semantic and acoustic-phonetic processes in the perception of noise-vocoded speech: implications for cochlear implantation. Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, 8(18), 1-11. Link/PDF
MCGETTIGAN, C., Scott, S.K. (2014). Voluntary and involuntary processes affect the production of verbal and non-verbal signals by the human voice. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 37, 564-565. Link/PDF
Scott, S.K., LAVAN, N., Chen, S., MCGETTIGAN, C. (2014) The social life of laughter. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 18, 618-620. Link/PD
2013
Agnew, Z. K., MCGETTIGAN, C., Banks, B., and Scott, S. K. (2013). Articulatory movements modulate auditory responses to speech. NeuroImage 73, 191-199. Link/PDF
Evans, S. , Kyong, J. , Rosen, S. , Golestani, N. , Warren, J. , MCGETTIGAN, C. , Mourao-Miranda, J. , Wise, R. & Scott, S. (2013). The pathways for intelligible speech: multivariate and univariate perspectives. Cerebral Cortex, 24(9), 2350-2361. Link/PDF
MCGETTIGAN, C., Eisner, F., Agnew, Z.K., Manly, T., Wisbey, D., Scott, S.K. (2013). T’aint what you say, it’s the way that you say it - left insula and inferior frontal cortex work in interaction with superior temporal regions to control the performance of vocal impersonations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 25, 1875-1886. Link/PDF
Scott, S.K., MCGETTIGAN, C. (2013). Do temporal processes underlie left hemisphere dominance in speech perception? Brain and Language 127, 36-45. Link/PDF
Scott, S.K., MCGETTIGAN, C. (2013). The neural processing of masked speech. Hearing Research, 303, 58-66. Link/PDF
Scott, S.K., MCGETTIGAN, C., Eisner, F. (2013) The neural basis of links and dissociations between speech perception and production. In Bolhuis, J.J. & Everaert, M. (Eds.), Birdsong, Speech & Language. Converging Mechanisms (pp. 277-295). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Link/PDF
2012
MCGETTIGAN, C.*, Evans, S.*, Rosen, S., Agnew, Z.K., Shah, P., Scott, S.K. (2012). An application of univari- ate and multivariate approaches in fMRI to quantifying the hemispheric lateralization of acoustic and linguistic processes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 24(3), 636-652. Link/PDF
MCGETTIGAN, C., Faulkner, A., Altarelli, I., Obleser, J., Baverstock, H., Scott, S.K. (2012). Speech comprehension aided by multiple modalities: behavioural and neural interactions. Neuropsychologia 50(5), 762-776. Link/PDF
MCGETTIGAN, C., Scott, S.K. (2012) Cortical asymmetries in speech perception: what’s wrong, what’s right and what’s left? Trends in Cognitive Sciences 16(5), 269-76. Link/PDF
Scott, S.K., MCGETTIGAN, C. (2012) Amplitude onsets and spectral energy in perceptual experience. Frontiers in Psychology 3:80. Link/PDF
2011
Agnew, Z.K., MCGETTIGAN, C., Scott, S.K. (2011). Discriminating between auditory and motor cortical re- sponses to speech and non-speech mouth sounds. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 23(12), 4038-4047. Link/PDF
MCGETTIGAN, C., Warren, J.E., Eisner, F., Marshall, C.R., Shanmugalingam, P., Scott, S.K. (2011). Neural correlates of sublexical processing in phonological working memory. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 23(4), 961-977. Link/PDF
2010
Eisner, F., MCGETTIGAN, C., Faulkner, A., Rosen, S., Scott, S.K. (2010). Inferior frontal gyrus activation predicts individual differences in perceptual learning of cochlear-implant simulations. Journal of Neuroscience 30(21), 7179-7186. Link/PDF
MCGETTIGAN, C., Agnew, Z.K., Scott, S.K. (2010) Are articulatory commands automatically and involuntarily activated during speech perception? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 107(12), E42-E42. Link/PDF
Scott, S. K., Sauter, D., MCGETTIGAN, C. (2010). Brain mechanisms for processing perceived emotional vocalizations in humans. In S. M. Brudzynski (Ed.), Handbook of mammalian vocalization: An integrative neuroscience approach (pp. 187-198). London: Academic Press. Link/PDF
2009
Garrido, L., Eisner, F., MCGETTIGAN, C., Stewart, L., Sauter, D., Hanley, J.R., Schweinberger, S.R., Warren, J.D., Duchaine, B. (2009). Developmental phonagnosia: a selective deficit of vocal identity recognition. Neuropsychologia 47(1), 123-131. Link/PDF
Scott, S.K., MCGETTIGAN, C., Eisner, F. (2009) A little more conversation, a little less action - candidate roles for motor cortex in speech perception. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 10(4), 295-302. Link/PDF
2005
Davis, M.H., Johnsrude, I.S., Hervais-Adelman, A., Taylor, K., MCGETTIGAN, C. (2005). Lexical Information Drives Perceptual Learning of Distorted Speech: Evidence from the Comprehension of Noise-vocoded Sentences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 134(2), 222-241. Link/PDF
*Indicates joint first authorship