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Fitzroy, A. B., & Sanders, L. D. (2015). Musical Meter Modulates the Allocation of Attention across Time. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1–13. http://doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00862

Zobel, B. H., Freyman, R. L., & Sanders, L. D. (2015). Attention is critical for spatial auditory object formation. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 77(6), 1998–2010. http://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-015-0907-4

Breen, M., Dilley, L. C., McAuley, J. D., & Sanders, L. D. (2014). Auditory evoked potentials reveal early perceptual effects of distal prosody on speech segmentation. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 29(9), 1132–1146. http://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2014.894642

Morrill, T. H., McAuley, J. D., Dilley, L. C., Zdziarska, P. A., Jones, K. B., & Sanders, L. D. (2014). Distal prosody affects learning of novel words in an artificial language. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22(3), 815–823. http://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-014-0733-z

Fitzroy, A. B., & Sanders, L. D. (2013). Musical expertise modulates early processing of syntactic violations in language. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 603. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00603

Shen, E. Y., Staub, A., & Sanders, L. D. (2013). Event-related brain potential evidence that local nouns affect subject–verb agreement processing. Language and Cognitive Processes, 28(4), 498–524. http://doi.org/10.1080/01690965.2011.650900

Breen, M., Kingston, J., & Sanders, L. D. (2013). Perceptual representations of phonotactically illegal syllables. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 75(1), 101–120. http://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-012-0376-y

Astheimer, L. B., & Sanders, L. D. (2012). Temporally selective attention supports speech processing in 3- to 5-year-old children. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2(1), 120–128. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2011.03.002

Sanders, L. D., & Zobel, B. H. (2012). Nonverbal spatially selective attention in 4- and 5-year-old children. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 2(3), 317–328. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2012.03.004

Astheimer, L. B., & Sanders, L. D. (2011). Predictability affects early perceptual processing of word onsets in continuous speech. Neuropsychologia, 49(12), 3512–3516. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.08.014

Sanders, L. D., Zobel, B. H., Freyman, R. L., & Keen, R. (2011). Manipulations of listeners’ echo perception are reflected in event-related potentials. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129(1), 301–309. http://doi.org/10.1121/1.3514518

Sanders, L. D., Ameral, V., & Sayles, K. (2009). Event-related potentials index segmentation of nonsense sounds. Neuropsychologia, 47(4), 1183–1186. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.11.005

Ashby, J., Sanders, L. D., & Kingston, J. (2009). Skilled readers begin processing sub-phonemic features by 80ms during visual word recognition: Evidence from ERPs. Biological Psychology, 80(1), 84–94. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.03.009

Astheimer, L. B., & Sanders, L. D. (2009). Listeners modulate temporally selective attention during natural speech processing. Biological Psychology, 80(1), 23–34. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.01.015

Sanders, L. D., & Astheimer, L. B. (2008). Temporally selective attention modulates early perceptual processing: Event-related potential evidence. Perception & Psychophysics, 70(4), 732–742. http://doi.org/10.3758/PP.70.4.732

Sanders, L. D., Joh, A. S., Keen, R. E., & Freyman, R. L. (2008). One sound or two? Object-related negativity indexes echo perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 70(8), 1558–1570. http://doi.org/10.3758/PP.70.8.1558

Stevens, C., Fanning, J., Coch, D., Sanders, L., & Neville, H. (2008). Neural mechanisms of selective auditory attention are enhanced by computerized training: Electrophysiological evidence from language-impaired and typically developing children. Brain Research, 1205, 55–69. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2007.10.108

Sanders, L. D., Weber-Fox, C. M., & Neville, H. J. (2008). Varying degrees of plasticity in different subsystems within language. In J. R. Pomerantz (Ed.), Topics in integrative neuroscience: From cells to cognition (pp. 125–153). Cambridge University Press.

Sanders, L. D., & Poeppel, D. (2007). Local and global auditory processing: Behavioral and ERP evidence. Neuropsychologia, 45(6), 1172–1186. http://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.neuropsychologia.2006.10.010

Stevens, C., Sanders, L., & Neville, H. (2006). Neurophysiological evidence for selective auditory attention deficits in children with specific language impairment. Brain Research, 1111(1), 143–152. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainres.2006.06.114

Sanders, L. D., Stevens, C., Coch, D., & Neville, H. J. (2006). Selective auditory attention in 3-to 5-year-old children: An event-related potential study. Neuropsychologia, 44(11), 2126–2138. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.10.007

Coch, D., Sanders, L. D., & Neville, H. J. (2005). An Event-related Potential Study of Selective Auditory Attention in Children and Adults. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17(4), 605–622. http://doi.org/10.1162/0898929053467631

Sanders, L. D., & Neville, H. J. (2003). An ERP study of continuous speech processing. II. Segmentation, semantics, and syntax in non-native speakers. Cognitive Brain Research, 15(3), 214–227. http://doi.org/10.1016/S0926-6410(02)00194-5

Sanders, L. D., & Neville, H. J. (2003). An ERP study of continuous speech processing. I. Segmentation, semantics, and syntax in native speakers. Cognitive Brain Research, 15(3), 228–240. http://doi.org/10.1016/S0926-6410(02)00195-7

Sanders, L. D., Newport, E. L., & Neville, H. J. (2002). Segmenting nonsense: an event-related potential index of perceived onsets in continuous speech. Nature Neuroscience, 5(7), 700–703. http://doi.org/10.1038/nn873

Sanders, L. D., Neville, H. J., & Woldorff, M. G. (2002). Speech Segmentation by Native and Non-Native Speakers: The Use of Lexical, Syntactic, and Stress-Pattern Cues. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 45(3), 519–530. http://doi.org/10.1044/1092-4388(2002/041)

Sanders, L. D., & Neville, H. J. (2000). Lexical, Syntactic, and Stress-Pattern Cues for Speech Segmentation. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research, 43(6), 1301–1321. http://doi.org/10.1044/jslhr.4306.1301



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