Publications
2024
Pounder, Z., Eardley, A.F., Loveday, C. & Evans, S. (2024). No clear evidence of a difference between individuals who self-report an absence of auditory imagery and typical imagers on auditory imagery tasks. PLOS One.
Data & Code
2023
Dopierała, A., López Pérez, D., Mercure, E., Pluta, A., Malinowska-Korczak, A., Evans, S., Wolak, T., & Tomalski, P. (2023). Watching talking faces: The development of cortical representation of visual syllables in infancy. Brain & Language.
Dopierała, A., López Pérez, D., Mercure, E., Pluta, A., Malinowska-Korczak, A., Evans, S., Wolak, T., & Tomalski, P. (2023). The Development of Cortical Responses to the Integration of Audiovisual Speech in Infancy. Brain Topology.
2022
Norris, E., Clark, K., Munafo, M, ... Evans. S, ... Pennington, C.R. (2022). Awareness of and engagement with Open Research behaviours: Development of the Brief Open Research Survey (BORS) with the UK Reproducibility Network. PsyArXiv.
Zaka, H., Selvarajah1, B., Evans, S., Ripollés, P. & Krishnan, S. (2022). The influence of intrinsic reward on word learning in oral and written contexts. PsyArXiv.
Pounder, Z., Jacob, J., Evans, S., Loveday, C., Eardley, A.F. & Silvanto, J. (2022). Only minimal differences between individuals with congenital aphantasia and those with typical imagery on neuropsychological tasks that involve imagery. Cortex.
Alderson-Day, B., Moffatt, J., Lima, C., F., Krishnan, S., Fernyhough, C., Scott, S. K., Denton, S., TingLeong, I.Y., Oncel, A.D., Wu1, Y.L., Gurbuz1, Z. & Evans, S. (2022). Susceptibility to auditory hallucinations is associated with spontaneous but not directed modulation of top-down expectations for speech. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 8 (1), 1-14.
Data, code & materials
Evans, S. & Rosen, S. (2022). Who is Right?: A word identification test in noise for young children using minimal pair distractors. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research.
Data, code & materials
2020
Kafadar, E., Mittal, V.A., Strauss, G.P., Chapman, H.C., Ellman, L.M, Bansal, S., Gold, J.M, Alderson-Day, B., Evans, S., Silverstein, S.M., Walker, E.M., Woods, S.W., Corlett, P.R, Powers, A.R (2020). Modeling perception and behavior in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis: Support for the predictive processing framework. Schizophrenia Research 226. 167-175.
Mercure, E., Evans, S., Pirazzoli, L., Goldberg, L., Bowden-Howl, H., Coulson, K., Lloyd-Fox, S., Beedie, I., Johnson, M.H., & MacSweeney, M. 2020. Language experience impacts brain activation for spoken and signed language in infancy: Insights from unimodal and bimodal bilinguals. Neurobiology of Language 1 (1), 9-32.
2019
Evans, S., Price, C.J., Diedrichsen, J., Gutierrez-Sigut, E. & MacSweeney, M. 2019. Sign and Speech Share Partially overlapping Conceptual Representations. Current Biology (29), 3739-3747.
Data & materials
Read an associated commentary by Karen Emmorey here
Davis, M.H., Evans, S., McCarthy, M., Evans, L., Giannakopolou, A. & Taylor, J.S.H. (Preprint, 2019). Lexical learning shapes the development of speech perception until late adolescence. PsyArXiv.
2018
Krishnan, S., Lima, C., Evans, S., Chen, S., Guldner, S., Yeff, H., Manly, T. and Scott, S. 2018. Beatboxers and guitarists engage sensorimotor regions selectively when listening to the instruments they can play. Cerebral Cortex 28 (11), 4063-4079.
2017
Twomey, T., Waters, D., Price, C.J., Evans, S. and MacSweeney, M. 2017. How auditory experience differentially influences the function of left and right superior temporal cortices. Journal of Neuroscience. 37 (9), pp. 9564-9573.
*Alderson-Day, B., *Lima, C., Evans, S., Krishnan, S., Shanmugalingam, P., Fernyhough, C. and Scott, S.K. 2017. Distinct Processing of Ambiguous Speech in People with Non-Clinical Auditory Verbal Hallucinations. Brain. 140 (9), pp. 2475-2489.
Evans, S. and McGettigan, C. 2017. Comprehending auditory speech: previous and potential contributions of functional MRI. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 32 (7), pp. 829-846.
Evans, S. 2017. What has replication ever done for us? Insights from neuroimaging of speech perception. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 11 (41), pp. 1-5.
2016
Evans, S., McGettigan, C., Agnew, Z.K., Rosen, S. and Scott, S.K. 2016. Getting the Cocktail Party Started: Masking Effects in Speech Perception. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 28 (3), pp. 483-500.
Knowland, V.C.P., Evans, S., Snell, C. and Rosen, S. 2016. Visual Speech Perception in Children With Language Learning Impairments. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 59, pp. 1-14.
*Meekings, S., *Evans, S., Lavan, N., Boebinger, D., Krieger-Redwood, K., Cooke, M. and Scott, S.K. 2016. Distinct neural systems recruited when speech production is modulated by different masking sounds. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 140 (1), pp. 8-19.
2015
Meekings, S., Boebinger, D., Evans, S., Lima, C.F., Chen, S., Ostarek, M. and Scott, S.K. 2015. Do We Know What We’re Saying? The Roles of Attention and Sensory Information During Speech Production . Psychological Science. 26 (12), pp. 1975-1977.
*Lima, C.F., *Lavan, N., Evans, S., Agnew, Z., Halper, A.R., Shanmugalingam, P., Meekings, S., Boebinger, D., Ostarek, M., McGettigan, C., Warren, J.E. and Scott, S.K. 2015. Feel the noise: Relating individual differences in auditory imagery to the structure and function of sensorimotor systems. Cerebral Cortex. 25 (11), pp. 4638-4650.
Evans, S. and Davis, M.H. 2015. Hierarchical organization of auditory and motor representations in speech perception: Evidence from searchlight similarity analysis. Cerebral Cortex. 25 (12), pp. 4772-4788.
Boebinger, D., Evans, S., Rosen, S., Lima, C.F., Manly, T. and Scott, S.K. 2015. Musicians and non-musicians are equally adept at perceiving masked speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 137 (1), pp. 378-387.
2014
Mohr, B., Difrancesco, S., Harrington, K., Evans, S. and Pulvermüller, F. 2014. Changes of right-hemispheric activation after constraint-induced, intensive language action therapy in chronic aphasia: fMRI evidence from auditory semantic processing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8, p. Article 919.
Evans, S., Meekings, S., Nuttall, H.E., Jasmin, K.M., Boebinger, D., Adank, P. and Scott, S.K. 2014. Does musical enrichment enhance the neural coding of syllables? Neuroscientific interventions and the importance of behavioral data. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8, p. Article 964.
*Evans, S., *Kyong, J.S., Rosen, S., Golestani, N., Warren, J.E., McGettigan, C., Mourão-Miranda, J., Wise, R.J.S. and Scott, S.K. 2014. The Pathways for Intelligible Speech: Multivariate and Univariate Perspectives . Cerebral Cortex. 24 (9).
2012
*McGettigan, C., *Evans, S., Rosen, S., Agnew, Z.K., Shah, P. and Scott, S.K. 2012. An application of univariate and multivariate approaches in FMRI to quantifying the hemispheric lateralization of acoustic and linguistic processes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 24 (3), pp. 636-652.
2010
Scott, S.K. and Evans, S. 2010. Categorizing Speech. Nature Neuroscience. 13 (11), pp. 1304-1306.
*Joint first authors
Pounder, Z., Eardley, A.F., Loveday, C. & Evans, S. (2024). No clear evidence of a difference between individuals who self-report an absence of auditory imagery and typical imagers on auditory imagery tasks. PLOS One.
Data & Code
2023
Dopierała, A., López Pérez, D., Mercure, E., Pluta, A., Malinowska-Korczak, A., Evans, S., Wolak, T., & Tomalski, P. (2023). Watching talking faces: The development of cortical representation of visual syllables in infancy. Brain & Language.
Dopierała, A., López Pérez, D., Mercure, E., Pluta, A., Malinowska-Korczak, A., Evans, S., Wolak, T., & Tomalski, P. (2023). The Development of Cortical Responses to the Integration of Audiovisual Speech in Infancy. Brain Topology.
2022
Norris, E., Clark, K., Munafo, M, ... Evans. S, ... Pennington, C.R. (2022). Awareness of and engagement with Open Research behaviours: Development of the Brief Open Research Survey (BORS) with the UK Reproducibility Network. PsyArXiv.
Zaka, H., Selvarajah1, B., Evans, S., Ripollés, P. & Krishnan, S. (2022). The influence of intrinsic reward on word learning in oral and written contexts. PsyArXiv.
Pounder, Z., Jacob, J., Evans, S., Loveday, C., Eardley, A.F. & Silvanto, J. (2022). Only minimal differences between individuals with congenital aphantasia and those with typical imagery on neuropsychological tasks that involve imagery. Cortex.
Alderson-Day, B., Moffatt, J., Lima, C., F., Krishnan, S., Fernyhough, C., Scott, S. K., Denton, S., TingLeong, I.Y., Oncel, A.D., Wu1, Y.L., Gurbuz1, Z. & Evans, S. (2022). Susceptibility to auditory hallucinations is associated with spontaneous but not directed modulation of top-down expectations for speech. Neuroscience of Consciousness, 8 (1), 1-14.
Data, code & materials
Evans, S. & Rosen, S. (2022). Who is Right?: A word identification test in noise for young children using minimal pair distractors. Journal of Speech, Language and Hearing Research.
Data, code & materials
2020
Kafadar, E., Mittal, V.A., Strauss, G.P., Chapman, H.C., Ellman, L.M, Bansal, S., Gold, J.M, Alderson-Day, B., Evans, S., Silverstein, S.M., Walker, E.M., Woods, S.W., Corlett, P.R, Powers, A.R (2020). Modeling perception and behavior in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis: Support for the predictive processing framework. Schizophrenia Research 226. 167-175.
Mercure, E., Evans, S., Pirazzoli, L., Goldberg, L., Bowden-Howl, H., Coulson, K., Lloyd-Fox, S., Beedie, I., Johnson, M.H., & MacSweeney, M. 2020. Language experience impacts brain activation for spoken and signed language in infancy: Insights from unimodal and bimodal bilinguals. Neurobiology of Language 1 (1), 9-32.
2019
Evans, S., Price, C.J., Diedrichsen, J., Gutierrez-Sigut, E. & MacSweeney, M. 2019. Sign and Speech Share Partially overlapping Conceptual Representations. Current Biology (29), 3739-3747.
Data & materials
Read an associated commentary by Karen Emmorey here
Davis, M.H., Evans, S., McCarthy, M., Evans, L., Giannakopolou, A. & Taylor, J.S.H. (Preprint, 2019). Lexical learning shapes the development of speech perception until late adolescence. PsyArXiv.
2018
Krishnan, S., Lima, C., Evans, S., Chen, S., Guldner, S., Yeff, H., Manly, T. and Scott, S. 2018. Beatboxers and guitarists engage sensorimotor regions selectively when listening to the instruments they can play. Cerebral Cortex 28 (11), 4063-4079.
2017
Twomey, T., Waters, D., Price, C.J., Evans, S. and MacSweeney, M. 2017. How auditory experience differentially influences the function of left and right superior temporal cortices. Journal of Neuroscience. 37 (9), pp. 9564-9573.
*Alderson-Day, B., *Lima, C., Evans, S., Krishnan, S., Shanmugalingam, P., Fernyhough, C. and Scott, S.K. 2017. Distinct Processing of Ambiguous Speech in People with Non-Clinical Auditory Verbal Hallucinations. Brain. 140 (9), pp. 2475-2489.
Evans, S. and McGettigan, C. 2017. Comprehending auditory speech: previous and potential contributions of functional MRI. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 32 (7), pp. 829-846.
Evans, S. 2017. What has replication ever done for us? Insights from neuroimaging of speech perception. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 11 (41), pp. 1-5.
2016
Evans, S., McGettigan, C., Agnew, Z.K., Rosen, S. and Scott, S.K. 2016. Getting the Cocktail Party Started: Masking Effects in Speech Perception. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 28 (3), pp. 483-500.
Knowland, V.C.P., Evans, S., Snell, C. and Rosen, S. 2016. Visual Speech Perception in Children With Language Learning Impairments. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. 59, pp. 1-14.
*Meekings, S., *Evans, S., Lavan, N., Boebinger, D., Krieger-Redwood, K., Cooke, M. and Scott, S.K. 2016. Distinct neural systems recruited when speech production is modulated by different masking sounds. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 140 (1), pp. 8-19.
2015
Meekings, S., Boebinger, D., Evans, S., Lima, C.F., Chen, S., Ostarek, M. and Scott, S.K. 2015. Do We Know What We’re Saying? The Roles of Attention and Sensory Information During Speech Production . Psychological Science. 26 (12), pp. 1975-1977.
*Lima, C.F., *Lavan, N., Evans, S., Agnew, Z., Halper, A.R., Shanmugalingam, P., Meekings, S., Boebinger, D., Ostarek, M., McGettigan, C., Warren, J.E. and Scott, S.K. 2015. Feel the noise: Relating individual differences in auditory imagery to the structure and function of sensorimotor systems. Cerebral Cortex. 25 (11), pp. 4638-4650.
Evans, S. and Davis, M.H. 2015. Hierarchical organization of auditory and motor representations in speech perception: Evidence from searchlight similarity analysis. Cerebral Cortex. 25 (12), pp. 4772-4788.
Boebinger, D., Evans, S., Rosen, S., Lima, C.F., Manly, T. and Scott, S.K. 2015. Musicians and non-musicians are equally adept at perceiving masked speech. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 137 (1), pp. 378-387.
2014
Mohr, B., Difrancesco, S., Harrington, K., Evans, S. and Pulvermüller, F. 2014. Changes of right-hemispheric activation after constraint-induced, intensive language action therapy in chronic aphasia: fMRI evidence from auditory semantic processing. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8, p. Article 919.
Evans, S., Meekings, S., Nuttall, H.E., Jasmin, K.M., Boebinger, D., Adank, P. and Scott, S.K. 2014. Does musical enrichment enhance the neural coding of syllables? Neuroscientific interventions and the importance of behavioral data. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 8, p. Article 964.
*Evans, S., *Kyong, J.S., Rosen, S., Golestani, N., Warren, J.E., McGettigan, C., Mourão-Miranda, J., Wise, R.J.S. and Scott, S.K. 2014. The Pathways for Intelligible Speech: Multivariate and Univariate Perspectives . Cerebral Cortex. 24 (9).
2012
*McGettigan, C., *Evans, S., Rosen, S., Agnew, Z.K., Shah, P. and Scott, S.K. 2012. An application of univariate and multivariate approaches in FMRI to quantifying the hemispheric lateralization of acoustic and linguistic processes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 24 (3), pp. 636-652.
2010
Scott, S.K. and Evans, S. 2010. Categorizing Speech. Nature Neuroscience. 13 (11), pp. 1304-1306.
*Joint first authors