Courtney Darves Stevens
- Publications -

Articles and Book Chapters

Stevens, C., & Awh, E. (2007). Commentary: Specificity, mechanisms, and timing in the study of spatial cognition. In J. Plumert & J.P. Spencer (Eds.), The Emerging         Spatial Mind (pp. 362-371). New York: Oxford University Press.

Stevens, C., Sanders, L., & Neville, H. (2006). Neurophysiological evidence for selective auditory attention deficits in children with specific language impairment. Brain Research, 1111, 143-152.

Cromer, L.D., Stevens, C., DePrince, A.P., & Pears, K. (2006) The relationship between executive attention and dissociation in children. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 7, 135-153.

Stevens, C., & Neville, H. (2006). Neuroplasticity as a double-edged sword: Deaf enhancements and dyslexic deficits in motion processing. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 701-714.

Sanders, L., Stevens, C., Coch, D., & Neville, H. (2006). Selective auditory attention in 3-5-year-old children: An event-related potential study. Neuropsychologia, 44, 2126-2138.

Oviatt, S., Darves, C., & Coulston, R. (2005). Toward adaptive conversational interfaces: Modeling speech convergence with animated personas. Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 11 (3), 300-328.

Oviatt, S., Darves, C., Coulston, R., Xiao, B., Wesson, M., Girand, C., & Mellander, E. (2005). Speech convergence with animated personas. In W. Minker, D. Bühler, & L. Dybkjær (Eds.), Spoken multimodal human-computer dialogue in mobile environments (pp. 379-397). Dordrecht: Springer.

Darves, C., & Oviatt, S. (2004). Talking to digital fish: Designing effective conversational interfaces for educational software. In C. Pelachaud, & Z. Ruttkay (Eds.), From brows to trust: Evaluating embodied conversational agents (pp. 271-292). Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Darves, C., & Oviatt, S. (2002). Adaptation of users’ spoken dialogue patterns in a conversational interface. Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2002), ed. J. Hansen & B. Pellom, Casual Prod. Ltd.: Denver, CO, vol. 1, 561-564.

Coulston, R., Oviatt, S., & Darves, C. (2002). Amplitude convergence in children’s conversational speech with animated personas. Proceedings of the International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2002), ed. J. Hansen & B. Pellom, Casual Prod. Ltd.: Denver, CO, vol. 4, 2689-2692.

Darves, C., Oviatt, S., & Coulston, R. (2002). The impact of auditory embodiment on animated character design. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent systems (AAMAS 2002), Embodied Agents Workshop.

Published Abstracts

Stevens, C., Fanning, J., & Neville, H. (2007). Changes in children’s selective auditory attention following computerized language training: Electrophysiological evidence. Society for Research on Child Development.

Stevens, C., Sanders, L., & Neville, H. (2006). Mechanisms of selective auditory attention are both deficient and remediable in children with specific language impairment: Evidence from event-related brain potentials. [Abstract]. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.

Dow, M.W., Scott, G.D., Stevens, C., & Neville, H.J. (2006). Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) evidence for distributed visual neuroplasticity in congenitally deaf humans. [Abstract]. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.

Stevens, C., Sanders, L., Andersson, A., & Neville, H. (2006) Vulnerability and plasticity of selective auditory attention in children: Evidence from language-impaired and second-language learners. [Abstract] Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Lauinger, B., Stevens, C., Sanders, L., & Neville, H. (2006). An ERP study of selective auditory attention in young children: Does maternal education make a difference? [Abstract] Cognitive Neuroscience Society.

Wible, B., Sanders, L., Darves-Stevens, C., & Neville, H. (2005). Auditory refractory ERP responses modulated by acoustic, phonological, and attention parameters. [Abstract] Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 12, 213.

Darves, C., Sanders, L., Stewart, L., & Neville, H. (2005). Selective auditory attention in typically developing and language-impaired children as indexed by ERPs. [Abstract] Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 12, 60.

Darves, C., & Neville, H. (2004). Two sides of neural plasticity in the dorsal visual pathway: Evidence from deaf, dyslexic, and control adults. [Abstract]. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 11, 117.

Darves, C., Rueda, M.R., Stevens, E.L., Marrocco, R., & Neville, H. (2003). Attentional network differences among deaf, dyslexic, and control adults [Abstract]. Society for Neuroscience Abstracts.

Oviatt, S.L., Coulston, R. & Darves, C. (2003). Predicting children's hyperarticulate speech during human-computer error resolution. [Abstract]. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 113, 2296.