Publications

Ecological Sound Loudness in Environmental Sound Representations.

Oszczapinska, U., Heller, L.M., Jang, S., and Nance, B.

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America - Express Letters 4(2), 024401 (2024). 


Altering the Perceived Cause of Unpleasant and Misophonic Sounds with Videos and Words.

Oszczapinska, U., Smith, J.M., Julien, M.M., and Heller, L.M.

Association for Research in Otolaryngology, 47th Annual Midwinter Meeting, Anaheim, CA, February 4, 2024.


Source reassignment can increase the pleasantness of sounds.

Heller, L.M.

Science of Art, Music and Brain Activity, Arizona State University (virtual talk),  January 16, 2024.


Assessment of environmental sound perception among listeners with hearing loss and cochlear implants.

Harris, M.S., Anwer, S., Luzum, N., Shafiro, V., Heller, L.M.

Acoustical Society of America, Sydney,  December 4 2023.


When and why can visual stimuli increase sound pleasantness?

Heller, L.M., Julien, M., Oszczapinska, U., Smith, J.M. 

Auditory Perception Cognition and Action Meeting, San Francisco, Nov. 16, 2023.


Foley sound synthesis at the DCASE 2023 Challenge

Choi, K*, Im, J.*, Heller, L.*, McFee, B., Imoto, K., Okamoto, Y., Lagrange, M., Takamichi, S. (2023). *=equal contribution. 

DCASE2023 Workshop, Tampere Finland, Sept 22, 2023https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2304.12521 


The causal properties of sound predict their recognition and misidentification. 

Heller, L.M., Oszczapinska, U., Smith, J.M. 

Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, May 12, 2023.


Typical sound level in environmental sound representation. 

Oszczapinska, U., Nance, B., Jang, S., Heller, L.M.

Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, May 8, 2023.


From sounds to scenes: Comprehension of environmental sounds by cochlear implant users. 

Price, E.A., Forrest, L.M., Luzum, N., Harris, M.S., Heller, L.M., Shafiro, V. 

Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, May 9, 2023.


Altering the perceived causes of unpleasant and misophonic sounds with movies 

Heller, L.M., Julien, M.M., Oszczapinska, U., Smith, J.M. 

Acoustical Society of America, Washington, D.C. Chapter, April 25, 2023.


Synergy between human and machine approaches to sound/scene recognition and processing: An overview of ICASSP special session

LM Heller, B Elizalde, B Raj, S Deshmukh. (2023). 

https://doi.org/10.48550/ARXIV.2302.09719


The underlying temporal features in the transition from bouncing to rolling events

U Osczcapinksa, LM Heller

Auditory Perception and Cognition, 2022. DOI:10.1080/25742442.2022.2143201. Open access. Supplemental Materials


When hybrid sound effects are better than real recordings

LM Heller, L Wolf

2022 Proceedings paper based on 143rd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, 2002, Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, Vol. 46, 050002 (2022). Open access.


Identification of everyday sounds affects their pleasantness

LM Heller, JM Smith

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022.13:894034. Open access.


Agreement between online and in-person auditory causal property ratings

LM Heller

CMU Kilthub technical report, May 27, 2022. Open access.


The auditory categorization of bouncing and rolling sound events

U Osczcapinska, LM Heller

Auditory Perception, Cognition and Action Meeting, 20th annual, Nov 4, 2021


Identifying actions for sound event classification

B Elizalde, R Revutchi, S Das, B Raj, I Lane, LM Heller

IEEE WASPAA Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, 2021


Acoustic features of environmental sounds that convey actions

LM Heller, A Sheikh

Auditory Perception, Cognition and Action Meeting, 18th annual


Who's that knocking at my door? Neural bases of sound source identification

G Lemaitre, JA Pyles, AR Halpern, N Navolio, M Lehet, LM Heller

Cerebral cortex 28 (3), 805-818. Open access.


Evaluating two ways to train sensitivity to echoes to improve echolocation

LM Heller, A Schenker, P Grover, M Gardner, F Liu

International Conference on Auditory Display


Echoexplorer: a game app for understanding echolocation and learning to navigate using echo cues

W Wu, R Morina, A Schenker, A Gotsis, H Chivukula, M Gardner, F Liu, ...

International Conference on Auditory Display


Temporal and semantic effects on multisensory integration

JM Vettel, JR Green, L Heller, MJ Tarr

arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.05004 and Ph.D. Dissertation, Brown University


No difference in cross-modal attention or sensory discrimination thresholds in autism and matched controls

SM Haigh, DJ Heeger, LM Heller, A Gupta, I Dinstein, NJ Minshew, ...

Vision research 121, 85-94


The egocentric nature of action-sound associations

N Navolio, G Lemaitre, A Forget, LM Heller

Frontiers in psychology 7, 231. Open access.


Priming gestures with sounds

G Lemaitre, LM Heller, N Navolio, N Zúñiga-Peñaranda

PloS one 10 (11), e0141791. Open access.


Priming gestures with associated sounds

G Lemaitre, N Navolio, LM Heller

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 137 (4), 2205-2205


Evidence for a basic level in a taxonomy of everyday action sounds

G Lemaitre, LM Heller

Experimental brain research 226 (2), 253-264


Auditory perception of material is fragile while action is strikingly robust

G Lemaitre, LM Heller

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 131 (2), 1337-1348


Binaural interference in lateralization thresholds for interaural time and level differences

LM Heller, VM Richards

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 128 (1), 310-319


Perceptually important acoustic features of environmental sounds.

LM Heller, B Skerritt, E Ammerman

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 125 (4), 2724-2724


Detecting incipient inner-ear damage from impulse noise with otoacoustic emissions

L Marshall, JA Lapsley Miller, LM Heller, KS Wolgemuth, LM Hughes, ...

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 125 (2), 995-1013


The neural representation of dynamic real-world auditory/visual events

J Vettel, J Green, L Heller, M Tarr

Journal of Vision 8 (6), 1054-1054


Low-level otoacoustic emissions may predict susceptibility to noise-induced hearing loss

JA Lapsley Miller, L Marshall, LM Heller, LM Hughes

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 120 (1), 280-296


Auditory-visual interactions in the judgment of a ball's speed

LM Heller, S Gilman, K Sripada, E Helman

Journal of Vision 6 (6), 174-174


Perception and cognition of acoustic signals

LM Heller

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 119 (5), 3394-3394


Can otoacoustic emissions indicate susceptibility to noise‐induced hearing loss in individual ears?

L Marshall, JA Lapsley Miller, LM Heller

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 119 (5), 3267-3267


One small step: Sound sources and events as the basis for auditory graphs.

JG Neuhoff, LM Heller

International Conference on Auditory Display


Auditory-Visual Interactions in the Perception of a Ball's Path

AJ Ecker, LM Heller

Perception 34 (1), 59-75


A longitudinal study of changes in evoked otoacoustic emissions and pure-tone thresholds as measured in a hearing conservation program

JA Lapsley Miller, L Marshall, LM Heller

International journal of audiology 43 (6), 307-322


2003 IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics October 19-22, 2003, New Paltz. NY

N Adams, G EssI, S Makino, AACFWL Martens, R Algazi, M Fellers, ...

IEEE ASSP Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and …


When sound effects are better than the real thing

LM Heller, L Wolf

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 111 (5), 2339-2339

Lay-Language paper

Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics Vol. 46 (2022).


Distortion-product otoacoustic emissions as a screening tool for noise-induced hearing loss

L Marshall, JAL Miller, LM Heller

Noise and health 3 (12), 43


Auditory representations of transients: The importance of phase in the analysis of rattle events

GH Wakefield, LM Heller, LH Carney, M Mellody

INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings 2000 (3), 4359 …


On the perception of transients: Applying psychophysical constraints to improve audio analysis and synthesis

GH Wakefield, LM Heller, LH Carney, M Mellody

ICMC


Transient-evoked otoacoustic emissions as a measure of noise-induced threshold shift

L Marshall, LM Heller

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 41 (6), 1319-1334


Distortion-product emissions accompanying TTS

L Marshall, LM Heller, B Lentz

Assoc. Res. Otolaryngol. Abs 150


Effect of negative middle-ear pressure on transient-evoked otoacoustic emissions

L Marshall, LM Heller, LJ Westhusin

Ear and hearing 18 (3), 218-226


Reliability of transient-evoked otoacoustic emissions

L Marshall, LM Heller

Ear and hearing 17 (3), 237-254


Extents of laterality and binaural interference effects

LM Heller, C Trahiotis

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 99 (6), 3632-3637


The discrimination of samples of noise in monotic, diotic, and dichotic conditions

LM Heller, C Trahiotis

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 97 (6), 3775-3781


Interference in detection of interaural delay in a sinusoidally amplitude‐modulated tone produced by a second, spectrally remote sinusoidally amplitude‐modulated tone

LM Heller, C Trahiotis

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 97 (3), 1808-1816


The discrimination of independent samples of noise under monotic and dichotic conditions

LM Heller, C Trahiotis

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 95 (5), 2917-2917


The representation of location in visual images

KR Cave, S Pinker, L Giorgi, CE Thomas, LM Heller, JM Wolfe, H Lin

Cognitive Psychology 26 (1), 1-32


Across-frequency influences in lateralization for interaural time and level differences

LM Heller

Ph.D. Dissertation, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania


The detection of a tone added to a narrow band of noise: The energy model revisited

VM Richards, LM Heller, DM Green

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 43 (3), 481-501