Publications

Papers

Bushong, W. and Jaeger, T. F. (accepted). Changes in informativity of sentential context affects its integration with subcategorical information about preceding speech. To appear in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Attention.

Bicknell, K., Bushong, W., Tanenhaus, M., and Jaeger, T. F. (2025). Listeners can maintain and rationally update uncertainty about prior words. Journal of Memory and Language, 140, 104565.

Segool, N. K., Tarampi, M. R., Bushong, W., Woike, Alyssa C., and Nicklin, J. M. (2024). Writing-psychology partnerships: The impact of learning community and major-cohorts in a first-year college effectiveness trial. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology.

Bushong, W. and Jaeger, T. F. (2019). Dynamic re-weighting of acoustic and contextual cues in spoken word recognition. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 146(2), EL135-EL140. [paper] [data and analyses]

Conference Presentations (Proceedings Papers)

Bushong, W., LaMarche, D., Espinal, E. A., and Longo, Z. J. (2024). Listeners optimally integrate acoustic and semantic cues across time during spoken word recognition. In Proceedings of the Forty-Sixth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Bushong, W. and Jaeger, T. F. (2019). Memory maintenance of gradient speech representations is mediated by their expected utility. In Proceedings of the Forty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [paper] [bibtex]

Bushong, W. and Jaeger, T. F. (2019). Modeling long-distance cue integration in spoken word recognition. In Proceedings of NAACL 2019 Cognitive Modeling and Computational Linguistics Workshop. [paper] [bibtex] [poster]

Bushong, W. and Jaeger, T. F. (2017). Maintenance of perceptual information in speech perception. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [paper] [bibtex]

Conference Presentations (Abstracts)

Tarampi, M. R., Bushong, W., Caron, E., Segool, N.K., \& Walton, N. (2024, November). Spatial abilities are enhanced in expert speed jigsaw puzzlers. Poster presented at the 65th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New York, NY.

Bushong, W. and LaMarche, D. (2024, May). The role of semantic context in spoken word recognition: Prediction and recovery or optimal cue integration? Poster presented at the 37th Annual Human Sentence Processing Conference, Ann Arbor, MI. [abstract]

Bushong, W. and Jaeger, T. F. (2023). Modeling subcategorical information in speech perception. Talk presented at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Denver, Colorado. [abstract]

Bushong, W. and Jaeger, T. F. (2021). Modeling subcategorical information maintenance in spoken word recognition. Short talk presented at the 34th Annual CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing. [abstract]

Bushong, W. and Jaeger, T. F. (2019). Modeling long-distance cue integration in spoken word recognition. Poster presented at the Forty-First Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. *Also presented at CMCL 2019 (see Proceedings Papers)

Bushong, W. and Jaeger, T. F. (2018). Expected utility of later context mediates maintenance of subcategorical information. Poster presented at the 24th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Berlin, Germany. [abstract] [poster] *Also presented at CogSci 2019 (see Proceedings Papers)

Bushong, W. and Jaeger, T. F. (2018). Cue reliability and adaptive re-weighting in spoken word recognition. Poster presented at the 24th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Berlin, Germany. [abstract] [poster] *Also presented at CUNY 2018

Bushong, W., Burchill, Z., and Jaeger, T. F. (2018). Understanding changes in garden-paths as expectation adaptation. Poster presented at the 24th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Berlin, Germany. [abstract] [poster]

Burchill, Z., Bushong, W. and Jaeger, T. F. (2018). Wasted power and false interactions in reading time analyses. Poster presented at the 24th Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Berlin, Germany.

Bushong, W. and Jaeger, T. F. (2018). Cue reliability and re-weighting in speech perception. Poster presented at the 31st CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing, Davis, CA. [abstract] [poster]

Bushong, W., Bicknell, K., and Jaeger, T. F. (2017). Listeners maintain uncertainty about acoustic input. Poster presented at the 30th CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing, Boston, MA. [abstract] [poster] *Also presented at CogSci 2017 (see Proceedings Papers)

Bushong, W. and Jaeger, T. F. (2017). Expectation adaptation to high-level word order preferences. Talk presented at the 30th CUNY Conference on Sentence Processing, Boston, MA. [abstract] [slides] [video of talk]

Bushong, W. and Jaeger, T. F. (2016). Processing the relative ordering of definite and indefinite noun phrases. Poster presented at the Dimensions of D Workshop, Rochester, NY. [abstract] [poster]

Bushong, W., Morgan, E., Yen, M., and Levy, R. (2015). Compositional and holistic representations in multiword expressions. Poster presented at the 21st Annual Conference on Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP), Valletta, Malta. [abstract] [poster]

Bushong, W., Ürgen, B. A., Miller, L. E., and Saygin, A. P. (2015). Influence of form and motion on biological motion prediction. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society 15th Annual Meeting, St. Pete, Florida. [poster]

Theses

Bushong, W. (2020). Maintenance of subcategorical information in spoken word recognition. PhD Thesis, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester. (committee: Florian Jaeger, Michael Tanenhaus, Aaron White, Melissa Sturge-Apple)

Bushong, W. (2015). Compositional and holistic processing in novel and attested multiword expressions. Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Department of Linguistics, UC San Diego. (advisor: Roger Levy) [pdf]

Bushong, W. (2015). Influence of form and motion on biological motion prediction. Undergraduate Honors Thesis, Department of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego. (committee: Ayşe Saygin, Seana Coulson, Burcu Ürgen) [pdf]