Violet Brown ’17

Education & Professional History

Carleton College, BA

Washington University in St. Louis, MA, PhD

Violet Brown is a Visiting Assistant Professor and Research Scientist in the Department of Psychology at Carleton College. She holds a BA from Carleton College (’17), and an MA and a PhD in the Psychological & Brain Sciences program of Brain, Behavior, and Cognition from Washington University in St. Louis. Violet’s research is on speech perception, with additional focuses on statistics, methodology, and open science.

Violet’s research focuses on how humans perceive spoken language. Some research topics include:

• Audiovisual speech processing
• Listening effort
• Dual-task costs
• Psychometrics
• Statistical methods for analyzing psycholinguistic data

Spring 2024:

• PSYC 220: Sensation & Perception

Fall 2024:

• PSYC 110: Principles of Psychology

Winter 2024:

• PSYC 200: Measurement and Data Analysis in Psychology
• PSYC 201: Measurement and Data Analysis Lab

• Strand, J. F. Brown, V. A., Sewell, K., Lin, Y., Lefkowitz, E., & Saksena, C. (2024). Assessing the Effects of “Native Speaker” Status on Classic Findings in Speech Research. The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
• Brown, V. A., Sewell, K., Villanueva, J., & Strand, J. F. (2024). Noisy Speech Impairs Retention of Previously Heard Information Only at Short Time Scales. Memory & Cognition. doi: 3758/s13421-024-01583-y
• Sewell, K., Brown, V. A., Farwell, G., Zhang, X., Rogers, & Strand, J. F. (2023). The Effects of Temporal Cues, Point-Light Displace, and Natural Faces on Speech Identification and Listening Effort. PLOS One. doi: 1371/journal.pone.0290826
• Brown, V. A., & Strand, J. F. (2022). Journal of Speech, Language, & Hearing Research. Preregistration: Practical Considerations for Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. doi: 10.1044/2022_JSLHR-22-00317
• Strand, J. F., & Brown, V. A. (2022). Journal of Speech, Language, & Hearing Research). Spread the Word: Enhancing Replicability of Speech Research Through Stimulus Sharing.
• Wilbiks, J., Strand, J. F., & Brown, V. A. (2022). Speech and non-speech measures of audiovisual integration are not correlated. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. doi: 3758/s13414-022-02517-z
• Wennberg, J., Dillman-Hasso, N. H., Brown, V. A., & Strand, J. F. (Stage 2 Registered Report Accepted in Principle). Impaired performance in noise: Disentangling listening effort from the irrelevant speech effect. Collabra: Psychology.
• Brown, V. A., Dillman-Hasso, N. H., Li, Z., Ray, L., Mamantov, E., Van Engen, K. J., & Strand, J. F. (2022). Lipreading in noise: Cross-modal analysis of the target-masker linguistic similarity hypothesis. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. doi: 10.3758/s13414-022-02486-3
• McLaughlin, D. J., Brown, V. A., Carraturo, S., & Van Engen, K. J. (2021). Revisiting the relationship between implicit racial bias and audiovisual benefit for nonnative-accented speech. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. doi: 10.3758/s13414-021-02423-w
• Brown, V. A., Van Engen, K. J., & Peelle, J. E. (2021). Facemask type affects audiovisual speech intelligibility and subjective listening effort in young and older adults. Cognitive Research: Principles & Implications, 6(49). doi: 10.1186/s41235-021-00314-0
• Brown, V. (2021). An introduction to mixed effects modeling in R. Advancements in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. doi: 10.1177/2515245920960351
• Brown, V. A., Fox, N. P., & Strand, J. F. (2021). “Where are the…fixations?”: Grammatical number cues guide anticipatory fixations to upcoming referents and reduce lexical competition. In press at Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition
• Strand, J. F., Ray, L., Dillman-Hasso, N. H., Villanueva, J., Brown, V. A. (2021). Understanding speech amid the jingle and jangle: Recommendations for Improving Measurement Practices in Listening Effort Research. Auditory Perception & Cognition. doi: 10.1080/25742442.2021.1903293
• Guang C., Lefkowitz, E., Dillman-Hasso, N., Brown, V. A., & Strand, J. F. (2021). Recall of Speech is Impaired by subsequent masking noise: A replication of Rabbitt (1968) Experiment 2. Auditory Perception & Cognition. doi: 10.1080/25742442.2021.1896908
• Brown, V. A., McLaughlin, Strand, J. F., & Van Engen, K. J. (2020). Adaptation to fully intelligible nonnative-accented speech reduces listening effort. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
• Strand, J. F., Brown, V. A., & Barbour, D. L. (2020). Talking points: A modulating circle increases listening effort without improving speech recognition in young adults. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
• Brown, V. A., & Strand, J. F. (2019). About face: Seeing the talker improves spoken word recognition but increases listening effort. The Journal of Cognition, 2, doi: 10.5334/joc.89
• Brown, V. A., & Strand, J. F. (2019). “Paying” attention to audiovisual speech: Do incongruent stimuli incur greater costs? Registered Report at Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 81, 1743–1756. doi: 10.3758/s13414-019-01772-x
• Strand, J. F., & Brown, V. A. (2019). Publishing open, reproducible research with undergraduates. Frontiers in Psychology: Educational Psychology, 10. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00564
• Brown, V. A., Hedayati, M., Zanger, A., Mayn, S., Ray, L., Dillman-Hasso, N., & Strand, J. F. (2018). What accounts for individual variability in susceptibility to the McGurk effect? PLOS One, 13. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207160
• Brown, V. A., & Strand, J. F. (2018). Noise increases listening effort, regardless of working memory capacity. Journal of Memory and Language. doi: 10.1080/23273798.2018.1562084
• Strand, J. F., Brown, V. A., Merchant, M. B., Brown, H. E., & Smith, J. (2018). Measuring listening effort: Convergent validity, sensitivity, and links with cognitive and personality measures. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 61, 1463–1486. doi:10.1044/2018_jslhr-h-17-0257
• Strand, J. F., Brown, V. A., Brown, H. E., & Berg, J. J. (2017). Keep listening: Grammatical context reduces but does not eliminate activation of unexpected words. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 44, 962–973. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000488

Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings

• Brown, V. A., Chen, X., Hedayati, M., Sikes, C., Strand, J., Wilson, T., & Liben-Nowell, D. (2019). Node ordering for rescalable network summarization (or, the apparent magic of word frequency and age of acquisition in the lexicon). Proceedings of the 7^th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications.