Sarah C. Creel

Sarah C. Creel Postdoctoral researcher University of Pennsylvania creelATpsychD0TupennD0Tedu Office: 3401 Walnut St., Room 413 Phone: 215.898.4165 Fax: 215.573.9247 Faculty advisors: Delphine Dahan Daniel Swingley

Education:

University of South Carolina

BA, Music (1999)

BS, Psychology (1999)

University of Rochester

MA, Brain and Cognitive Sciences (2003)

PhD, Brain and Cognitive Sciences (2005)

Papers (see my CV):

Creel, S. C., & Newport, E. L. (2002). Tonal profiles of artificial scales: roles of frequency and recency. Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Sydney, Australia, July 2002.

Creel, S. C., Newport, E. L., & Aslin, R. N. (2004). Distant melodies: Statistical learning of non-adjacent dependencies in tone sequences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30, 1119-1130.

Creel, S. C., & Newport, E. L. Tone prominence in simple melodies: disentangling the effects of frequency, position, and harmonic structure. Under revision for Music Perception.

Creel, S. C. (August 2005). The role of talker variation in lexical access. Doctoral dissertation.

Creel, S. C., Aslin, R. N., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2005). The role of consonants and vowels in learning an artificial lexicon: the effects of noise. Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Plasticity in Speech Perception, London, UK.

Creel, S. C., Aslin, R. N., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (2006). Acquiring an artificial lexicon: segment type and order information in early lexical entries. Journal of Memory and Language, 54, 1-19.

Creel, S. C., Tanenhaus, M. K., & Aslin, R. N. (2006). Consequences of lexical stress on learning an artificial lexicon. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32, 15-32.

Creel, S. C., Aslin, R. N., & Tanenhaus, M. K. (Accepted pending revision at Cognition). Heeding the voice of experience: The role of talker variation in lexical access.

Creel, S. C., Dahan, D., & Swingley, D. (2006, September). Effects of featural similarity and overlap position on lexical confusions and overt similarity judgments. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Pittsburgh, PA, US.

Fun with language and perception

Language links Language Log Etymonline Onelook Anagrams Auditory illusions Bregman auditory perception illusions Sine-wave speech: Chris Darwin (British English) Sine-wave speech: Haskins Labs (American English)

Visual illusions Perceptual Science Group at MIT Ted Adelson's animated lightness illusions* MIT hybrid images (Aude Oliva & Antonio Torralba)** Von Bezold spreading Not Safari-friendly. David Landrigan Donald Hoffman Michael Bach Nice color and cafe wall illusions. Sound-induced illusory flashing *Fun and interactive! **Also fun, but not for small children.

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Last updated 10.20.06