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2023 Lavan, N. (accepted). The time course of person perception from voices. Psychological Science. Preprint can be found here: Link. Lavan, N. (2023). How do we describe other people from voices and faces. Cognition, 230(105253). Link Mileva, M., & Lavan, N. (2023). Trait impressions from voices are formed rapidly within 400 ms of exposure.Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Link. Lavan, N., Ramanik Bamaniya, N., Muse, M. M., Price, R. L. M., & Mareschal, I. (2023). The effects of the presence of a face and direct eye gaze on voice identity learning. British Journal of Psychology. Link 2022 Lavan, N. (2022). Trait impressions from voices: Considering multiple ‘origin stories’ and the dynamic nature of trait‐related cues. British Journal of Psychology. Link Brekelmans, G., Lavan, N., Clayards, M., & Wonnacott, E. (2022). Does high talker variability improve the learning of non-native phoneme contrasts? A replication. Journal of Memory and Language. Link. (Preprint can be found here: Link) Kanber, E., Lavan, N., & McGettigan, C. (2022). Highly accurate and robust identity perception from personally familiar voices. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. (Preprint can be found here: Link) Lavan, N., Chan, W. Y., Zhuang, Y., Mareschal, I., & Shergill, S. S. (2022). Direct eye gaze enhances the ventriloquism effect. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 1-10. Link. Njie S.*, Lavan, N.*, & McGettigan, C. (2022). Talker and accent familiarity yield advantages for voice identity perception: a voice sorting study. Memory & Cognition, 1-13. Link. (Preprint: Link) Lavan, N.*, Smith, H. M.*, & McGettigan, C. (2022). Unimodal and cross-modal identity judgements using an audiovisual sorting task: Evidence for independent processing of faces and voices. Memory & Cognition. Link (Preprint can be found here: Link) Lavan N., Collins M.R.N., Miah J.F.M. (2022). Audiovisual identity perception from naturally-varying stimuli is driven by visual information. British Journal of Psychology, 113(1), 248-263. Link. Lavan, N. (2022). The effect of familiarity on within‐person age judgements from voices. British Journal of Psychology, 113(1), 287-299. Link. (Preprint can be found here: Link) 2021 Eerola, T., Armitage, J., Lavan, N., & Knight, S. (2021). Online data collection in auditory perception and cognition research: Recruitment, testing, data quality and ethical considerations. Auditory Perception & Cognition, 4(3-4), 251-280. Link. Leongómez, J. D., Pisanski, K., Reby, D., Sauter, D., Lavan, N., Perlman, M., & Varella Valentova, J. (2021). Voice modulation: from origin and mechanism to social impact. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B,376(1840), 20200386. Link. Waters, S.*, Kanber, E.*, Lavan, N., Belyk, M., Carey, D., Cartei, V., … & McGettigan, C. (accepted). Singers and non-singers differ in the performance and neural representation of vocal imitation. Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society: Biology. (Preprint can be found here: Link) Lavan, N.*, Kreitewolf, J.*, Obleser, J., & McGettigan, C. (2021). Familiarity and task context shape the use of acoustic information in voice identity perception. Cognition. Link. (Preprint can be found here: Link) Lavan, N.*, Smith, H. M.*, Jiang, L., & McGettigan, C. (2021). Explaining face-voice matching decisions: The contribution of mouth movements, stimulus effects and response biases. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics. Link (Preprint can be found here: Link) Lavan, N.*, Mileva, M.*, Burton, M., Young, A., & McGettigan, C. (2021). Trait evaluations of faces and voices: Comparing within- and between-person variability. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Link (Preprint can be found here: Link) Payne, B., Lavan, N., Knight, S., & McGettigan, C. (2021). Perceptual prioritisation of self-associated voices. British Journal of Experimental Psychology. Link. (Preprint can be found here: Link) Lavan, N., Mileva, M., & McGettigan, C. (2021). How does familiarity with a person affect trait ratings? British Journal of Psychology. Link. (Preprint can be found here: Link) Knight, S., Lavan, N., Torre, I., & McGettigan, C. (2021). The influence of perceived vocal traits on trusting behaviours in an economic game. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 74 (10) : 1747-1754. Link 2020 Johnson, J., McGettigan, C., & Lavan, N. (2020). Comparing unfamiliar voice and face identity perception using identity sorting tasks. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Link. (Preprint can be found here: Link) Lavan, N., Merriman, S. E., Ladwa, P., Burston, L., Knight, S., & McGettigan, C. (2020). “Please sort these sounds into 2 identities”: Effects of task instructions on performance in voice sorting studies. British Journal of Psychology. Link. (Preprint can be found here: Link) 2019 Lavan, N., Knight, S., Hazan, V., & McGettigan, C. (2019). The effects of high variability training during voice identity learning. Cognition, 193: 104025. Link. (Preprint can he found here: Link) Lavan, N., Knight, S. & McGettigan, C. (2019). Listeners form average-based representations of individual voice identities. Nature Communications, 10: 2404. Link. (Preprint can be found here: Link) Lavan N., Burston, L.F.K., Merriman, S.E., Ladwa P., 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. Link (Preprint can be found here: Link). Lavan N., Burton A.M., Scott S.K., & McGettigan C. (2019). Flexible voices: identity perception from variable vocal signals. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 26(1): 90-102. Link. (Preprint can be found here: Link) Lavan N., Domone, A., Fisher, B., Kenigzstein, N., Scott, S.K & McGettigan, C. (2018). Speaker sex perception from spontaneous and volitional non-verbal vocalizations. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. Link 2018 Lavan N., Burston L.F.K., & Garrido L. (2018). How many voices did you hear? Natural variability disrupts identity perception in unfamiliar listeners. British Journal of Psychology. Link (Preprint can be found here: Link) 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 of the United States of America. Link Lavan N., Short B., Wilding A., & McGettigan C. (2018). Impoverished encoding of speaker identity in spontaneous laughter. Evolution and Human Behavior, 39(1), 139-145. Link 2017 Lavan N. (2017). Commentary: “Hearing faces and seeing voices”: Amodal coding of person identity in the human brain. Frontiers in Neuroscience. Link Lavan N. & McGettigan C. (2017). Increased discriminability of authenticity from multimodal laughter is driven by auditory information. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 70 (10), 2159-2168. Link 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. 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, 96, 30-29. Link 2016 Lavan N., Scott S.K. & McGettigan C. (2016). Impaired generalization of speaker identity in familiar and unfamiliar voices. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 145(12), 1604-1614. Link 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 America, 140(1), 8-19. Link 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(17), 4662–4668. Link 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 Behavior, 40(2), 133-149. Link 2015 Lima C.F.*, Lavan N.*, Evans S., Agnew Z., Halpern A.R., Shanmugalingam P., … & Scott S.K. (2015). Feel the Noise: Relating Individual Differences in Auditory Imagery to the Structure and Function of Sensorimotor Systems. Cerebral Cortex, 25 (11), 4638-4650. 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 and Emotion, 29 (5), 935-944. Link 2014 Lavan N.* & Lima C.F.* (2014). Neurocognitive Mechanisms for Vocal Emotions: Sounds, Meaning, Action. Journal of Neuroscience, 34(39), 12950-12952. PDF Scott S.K., Lavan N., Chen S. & McGettigan C. (2014). The social life of laughter. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 18 (12), 618-620. Link * indicates joint first authorship |