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A.H. Tyner, et al. (2026). Investigating the replicability of the social and behavioural sciences. Nature, 652, 143–150.

Lauren (Ren) Salig, Jorge R. Valdés Kroff, Jeymi Menendez, Mia C. Lulli, L. Robert Slevc (2026). ¿Sabes si viene un code-switch? Bilinguals can predict upcoming code-switches given enough context. Memory & Cognition.

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Lauren (Ren) Salig, Jorge R. Valdés Kroff, Jared M. Novick, L. Robert Slevc (2026). Bilinguals have better recall for code-switched information. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 33, 56.

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Francesca Talamini, Massimo Grassi, and the “Music Ensemble group” (which includes, Veronica Kandro, L. Robert Slevc, Nico Tantengco, Rachel Thompson, Clara Tuske, and many others) (2026). Music Ensemble: A large dataset on musicianship, cognition, and personality in musicians and nonmusicians. Scientific Data, 13, 473..

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Massimo Grassi, Francesca Talamini, and the “Music Ensemble group” (which includes, Veronica Kandro, L. Robert Slevc, Nico Tantengco, Rachel Thompson, Clara Tuske, and many others) (2025). Do musicians have better short-term memory than nonmusicians? A multi-lab study. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science (AMPPS), 8(4).

Lauren (Ren) Salig, Jorge R. Valdés Kroff, L. Robert Slevc, Jared M. Novick (2025). Hearing a code-switch increases bilinguals’ attention to and memory for information. Journal of Memory and Language, 143, 104647.

Anthony Brandt, Molly Gebrian, L. Robert Slevc (2025). Milestones in the development of music and language. The Oxford Handbook of Language and Music.

Rachel Thompson, Lauren (Ren) Salig, L. Robert Slevc (2025). Is musical ability related to second-language acquisition? A meta-analysis. Royal Society Open Science, 12: 241193.

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Yi Wei, Roeland Hancock, L. Robert Slevc (2025). Auditory temporal processing can predict reading measurements in neurotypical adults: evidence for cascading effects of low-level auditory processing on high-level cognitive ability. Auditory Perception & Cognition, 8, 34-55.

Mingjiang Sun, Weijing Xing, Wenjing Yu, L. Robert Slevc, Weijun Li (2024). ERP evidence for cross-domain prosodic priming from music to speech. Brain and Language, 254, 105439.

Tanushree Agrawal, Anja-Xiaoxing Cui, Miriam D. Lense, Gerardo Lopez, Bre-Anna K. Owusu, Adena Schachner, L. Robert Slevc, Swathi Swaminathan, Dominique T. Vuvan (2024). From commitment to action: Assessing the impact of new mentorship programs to promote equity in the Society for Music Perception and Cognition. Music Perception, 41(4), 233-239.

Leon Li, Andrés Buxó-Lugo, Cassandra L. Jacobs, L. Robert Slevc (2024). Registered Report: Are lexical representations graded or discrete?. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 77(5), 909-923.

Andrés Buxó-Lugo, L. Robert Slevc (2024). Integration of input and expectations influences syntactic parses, not just sentence interpretation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 50(3), 500-508.

Lauren (Ren) Salig, Jorge R. Valdés Kroff, L. Robert Slevc, Jared M. Novick (2024). Linking frequency to bilingual switch costs during real-time sentence comprehension. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 27(1), 25-40.

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L. Robert Slevc (2023). Grammatical Encoding. In Hartsuiker & Strijkers (Eds.), Language Production (pp. 4-31), London: Routledge.

Kathleen E. Oppenheimer, Lauren (Ren) Salig, Craig A. Thorburn, Erika L.Exton (2022). Taking language science to zoom school: Virtual outreach to elementary school students. Language and Linguistics Compass, 16, e12471.

Brooke M. Okada, L. Robert Slevc (2021). What is 'musical ability' and how do we measure it? . Proceedings of the Future Directions of Music Cognition International Conference, 154-157.

Lauren (Ren) Salig, Jorge R. Valdés Kroff, L. Robert Slevc, Jared M. Novick (2021). Moving from bilingual traits to states: Understanding cognition and language processing through moment-to-moment variation. Neurobiology of Language, 2(4), 487-512 (2021).

Andrés Buxó-Lugo, L. Robert Slevc (2021). Do minor thirds characterize the prosody of sad speech? . Auditory Perception & Cognition, 3(4), 189-200.

Shota Momma, Julia Buffinton, L. Robert Slevc, Colin Phillips (2020). Syntactic category constrains lexical competition in speaking. Cognition, 197: 104183.

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Mattson Ogg, Thomas Carlson, L. Robert Slevc (2020). The rapid emergence of auditory object representations in cortex reflect central acoustic attributes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 32(1), 111–123.

Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah, L. Robert Slevc, Sadhvi Saxena, Sarah J. Fisher, Madeline Pifer (2020). Relationship between musical and language abilities in post-stroke aphasia. Aphasiology.

Brooke M. Okada, L. Robert Slevc (2019). Musical training: Contributions to Executive Function. In J. M. Novick, M. F. Bunting, M. R. Dougherty, & R. W. Engle (Eds.), Cognitive and Working Memory Training: Perspectives from Psychology, Neuroscience, and Human Development (pp. 487–507). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Mattson Ogg, Brooke M. Okada, Jared M. Novick, L. Robert Slevc (2019). Updating musical tonal structure in working memory engages cognitive control. Auditory Perception & Cognition, 2, 21-46.

Mattson Ogg, Dustin Moraczewski, Stefanie E. Kuchinsky, L. Robert Slevc (2019). Separable neural representations of sound sources: Speaker identity and musical timbres. NeuroImage, 191, 116-126.

Mattson Ogg, L. Robert Slevc (2019). Acoustic correlates of auditory object and event perception: Speakers, musical timbres and environmental sounds. Frontiers in Psychology: Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience, 10:1594.

Mattson Ogg, L. Robert Slevc (2019). Neural mechanisms of music and language. The Oxford Handbook of Neurolinguistics (pp. 907–952). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

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Michael R. Dougherty, L. Robert Slevc, James A. Grand (2019). Making research evaluation more transparent: Aligning research philosophy, institutional values, and reporting. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 14, 361-375.

Hao Yan, Randi C. Martin, L. Robert Slevc (2018). Lexical overlap increases syntactic priming in aphasia independently of short-term memory abilities: Evidence against the explicit memory account of the lexical boost. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 48, 76-89.

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Victor S. Ferreira, Adam Morgan, L. Robert Slevc (2018). Grammatical encoding. The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics, 2nd Ed. (pp. 432-457). Oxford University Press..

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Brooke M. Okada, L. Robert Slevc (2018). Individual differences in musical training and Executive Functions: A latent variable approach. Memory & Cognition, 46, 1076-1092.

Shota Momma, L. Robert Slevc, Colin Phillips (2018). Unaccusativity in sentence production. Linguistic Inquiry, 49, 181–194.

Mattson Ogg, L. Robert Slevc, William J. Idsardi (2017). The time course of sound category identification: Insights from acoustic features. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 142, 6, 3459–3473..

L. Robert Slevc, Iva Ivanova (2017). The relationship between priming and linguistic representations is mediated by processing constraints. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, E310.

L. Robert Slevc, Nicholas S. Davey, Martin Buschkuehl, Susanne M. Jaeggi (2016). Tuning the mind: Exploring the connections between musical ability and Executive Functions. Cognition, 152, 199-211..

L. Robert Slevc, Randi C. Martin (2016). Syntactic agreement attraction reflects short-term memory processes. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 28, 773-790..

L. Robert Slevc, Yasmeen Faroqi-Shah, Sadhvi Saxena, Brooke M. Okada (2016). Preserved processing of musical structure in a person with agrammatic aphasia. Neurocase, 22, 505-511..

Leon Li, L. Robert Slevc (2016). Of papers and pens: Polysemes and homophones in lexical (mis)selection. Cognitive Science, 41, 1532-1548..

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L. Robert Slevc, Nicholas S. Davey, Jared A. Linck (2016). A new look at 'the hard problem' of bilingual lexical access: Evidence for language switch costs with univalent stimuli. Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 28, 385-395..

Shota Momma, L. Robert Slevc, Colin Phillips (2015). The timing of verb selection in Japanese sentence production. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 42, 813-824.

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Christopher C. Heffner, L. Robert Slevc (2015). Prosodic structure as a parallel to musical structure. Frontiers in Psychology, 6: 1962.

L. Robert Slevc, Brooke M. Okada (2015). Processing structure in language and music: a case for shared reliance on cognitive control. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 22(3), 637-652.

L. Robert Slevc, Alison Shell (2015). Auditory Agnosia. The Human Auditory System: Fundamental Organization and Clinical Disorder. Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 3rd Ed. (pp. 573-587).

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Richard Kunert, L. Robert Slevc (2015). A commentary on: 'Neural overlap in processing music and speech' (Peretz et al., 2015). Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 9:330.

Alison Shell, Jared Linck, L. Robert Slevc (2015). Examining the role of inhibitory control in bilingual language switching. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2146-2151).

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L. Robert Slevc (2014). Book review: Language, Music, and the Brain: A Mysterious Relationship (M. Arbib, Ed.). The Quarterly Review of Biology, 89, 266-267.

Randi C. Martin, L. Robert Slevc (2014). Language production and working memory. The Oxford Handbook of Language Production (pp. 120-131). Oxford University Press..

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Thomas A. Carlson, Ryan A. Simmons, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, L. Robert Slevc (2014). The emergence of semantic meaning in the ventral temporal pathway. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 26(1), 120-131..

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L. Robert Slevc, Jared M. Novick (2013). Memory and cognitive control in an integrated theory of language processing. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36, 373-374..

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L. Robert Slevc, Victor S. Ferreira (2013). To err is human; to structurally prime from errors is also human. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 39(3), 985-992.

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L. Robert Slevc, Jason G. Reitman, Brooke M. Okada (2013). Syntax in music and language: The role of cognitive control . Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3414-3419).

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Anthony Brandt, Molly Gebrian, L. Robert Slevc (2012). Music and early language acquisition. Frontiers in Psychology, 3:327..

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L. Robert Slevc (2012). Language and music: sound, structure, and meaning. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 3(4), 483-492.

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Randi C. Martin, L. Robert Slevc (2012). Memory disorders and impaired language and communication. Cognition and Acquired Language Disorders: A Process-Oriented Approach (pp. 183-201).

L. Robert Slevc (2011). Saying what's on your mind: Working memory effects on sentence production. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 37(6), 1503-1514..

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L. Robert Slevc, Aniruddh D.Patel (2011). Meaning in music and language: Three key differences. Comment on “Towards a neural basis of processing musical semantics” by Stefan Koelsch. Physics of Life Reviews, 8(2), 110-111..

L. Robert Slevc, Randi C. Martin, A. Cris Hamilton, Marc F. Joanisse (2011). Speech perception, rapid temporal processing, and the left hemisphere: A case study of unilateral pure word deafness. Neuropsychologia, 49(2), 216-230..

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L. Robert Slevc, Jason C. Rosenberg, Aniruddh D.Patel (2009). Making psycholinguistics musical: Self-paced reading time evidence for shared processing of linguistic and musical syntax . Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 16, 374-381..

L. Robert Slevc, Liane Wardlow Lane, Victor S. Ferreira (2007). Pronoun production: Word or world knowledge?. The State of the Art in Speech Error Research. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 53, 191-203..

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Liane Wardlow Lane, L. Robert Slevc, Victor S. Ferreira (2007). Exchanging elicits: Stem-exchange errors and syntactic category shifts. The State of the Art in Speech Error Research. MIT Working Papers in Linguistics, 53, 221-232..

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L. Robert Slevc, Victor S. Ferreira (2007). Grammatical encoding. The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Oxford University Press..

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L. Robert Slevc, Akira Miyake (2006). Individual differences in second-language proficiency: Does musical ability matter?. Psychological Science, 17(8), 675-681..

Joseph P. McCleery, Lisa Tully, L. Robert Slevc, Laura Schreibman (2006). Consonant production patterns of young severely language-delayed children with autism. Journal of Communication Disorders, 39(3), 217-231..

L. Robert Slevc, Victor S. Ferreira (2006). Halting in single word production: A test of the perceptual loop theory of speech monitoring. Journal of Memory and Language, 54(4), 515-540..

Victor S.Ferreira, L. Robert Slevc, Erin S. Rogers (2005). How do speakers avoid ambiguous linguistic expressions?. Cognition, 96(3), 263-284..