Publications
LM Heller, U Oszczapinska, JM Smith, MM Julien (2025).
PLOS One, In press. Currently available as an OSF preprint (submitted in March 2024 to PLOS ONE.)
The effect of hearing loss on the pleasantness and identification of everyday sounds.
LM Heller, JM Smith, S Anwer, N Luzum, V Shafiro, M Harris
Ear Day 2025, Chicago chapter of Acoustical Society of America, Rush University, Chicago IL, March 14, 2025.
The impact of disgusting sounds on pupil diameter of misophonic and non-misophonic listeners
U Oszczapinska, S Park, Y Qiu, B Nance, M Julien, LM Heller (2025).
Psychophysiology, 62: e70014. https://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.70014
Neither here nor there: two studies with ambiguous stimuli.
LM Heller, Music & Technology Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA. Feb 25, 2025.
Vision Language Models Are Few-Shot Audio Spectrogram Classifiers
S Dixit, LM Heller, C Donahue
Audio Imagination: NeurIPS 2024 Workshop AI-Driven Speech, Music, and Sound Generation, 2024.
Challenge on Sound Scene Synthesis: Evaluating Text-to-Audio Generation
J Lee∗, M Tailleur∗, LM Heller∗, K Choi∗, M Lagrange∗, B McFee, K Imoto, Y Okamoto
Audio Imagination: NeurIPS 2024 Workshop AI-Driven Speech, Music, and Sound Generation, 2024.
Naturalistic Multimodal Spatial Interactions
LM Heller, AJ Ferguson, S Park, D Rosenberg
Auditory Perception Cognition and Action Meeting, New York, New York, Nov 21, 2024.
Educating about Climate Action Through Games.
LM Heller
Interactive Technologies Institute, Lisbon, Portugal (virtual talk), Nov 8 2024.
Sound Scene Synthesis at the DCASE 2024 Challenge
M Lagrange, J Lee, M Taiilleur, LM Heller, K Choi, B McFee, K Imoto, Y Okamoto.
Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events, Tokyo, Japan, Oct 25 2024.
Learning about Climate Change and Climate Action Through VR Animal Experiences.
LM Heller, J Cromp, J Dessler, K Du, H Hou, H Kelley, YX Lee, B Maggipinto, E Pan, S Saldamarco, D Turnshek, Y Wang, Y Wei, W Yan, C Zhang, Y Zhang, M Zhou
Meaningful Play Conference, Pittsburgh, Oct 17 2024.
Animal POV: A Climate Challenge.
J Cromp, K Du, H Hou, YX Lee, B Maggipinto, E Pan, Y Wang, Y Wei, W Yan, C Zhang, Y Zhang, M Zhou, J Dessler, H Kelley, S Saldamarco, D Turnshek, LM Heller
Meaningful Play Conference, Pittsburgh, Oct 16 2024.
YF Chen, LM Heller, S Cho, and D Lindlbauer
IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), Seattle, Oct 21 2024.
Assessment of annoyance from traffic noise inside and outside a school.
H Azad, SK Kachialireza, and LM Heller
The 53rd International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering (INTERNOISE) Nantes, France, Aug 26 2024
Detection of Deepfake Environmental Audio.
H Ouajdi, O Hadder, M Tailleur, M Lagrange, LM Heller
The 32nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lyon, France, Aug 27 2024
M Tailleur, J Lee, M Lagrange, K Choi, LM Heller, K Imoto, Y Okamoto
The 32nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Lyon, France, Aug 28 2024
Assessment of Environmental Sound Perception Among Listeners with Hearing Loss and Cochlear Implants.
Harris M.S., Anwer S., Luzum,N.R., Shafiro V., and Heller L.M
7th International Conference on Cochlear Implants and Other Implantable Technologies, Vancouver, Canada, July 2024.
DCASE 2024 Challenge Task 7 Development Dataset : Environmental Sound Scene Synthesis [Dataset].
Choi, K., Heller, L.M., Imoto, K., Lagrange, M., Lee, Junwon, McFee, B., Okamoto, Y., and Tailleur, M..
Zenodo. March 25, 2024.
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, 2023. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2304.12521
The causal properties of sound predict their recognition and misidentification.
LM Heller, U Oszczapinska, JM Smith
Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, May 12, 2023.
Typical sound level in environmental sound representation.
U Oszczapinska, B Nance, SJang, LM Heller
Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, May 8, 2023.
From sounds to scenes: Comprehension of environmental sounds by cochlear implant users.
EA Price, LM Forrest, N Luzum, MS Harris, LM Heller, V Shafiro.
Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, May 9, 2023.
Altering the perceived causes of unpleasant and misophonic sounds with movies
LM Heller, MM Julien, U Oszczapinska, JM Smith
Acoustical Society of America, Washington, D.C. Chapter, April 25, 2023.
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
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.
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
JA Lapsley Miller, L Marshall, LM Heller
International journal of audiology 43 (6), 307-322
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
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 …
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
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