Publications: DR Nadine Lavan

Irvine M, Lavan N ( 2026 ) . Can conceptual beliefs shape impressions from voices? . Psychonomic Bulletin & Review vol. 33 , ( 4 )

Rosi V, Lavan N, McGettigan C ( 2026 ) . Self-recognition shapes evaluations of (self-) voice attractiveness . Cognition vol. 272 ,

Lavan N, Turner JH, Utber MR, Sutherland CAM ( 2026 ) . Rating Traits Together or Apart: Presentation Format Affects First Impression Judgements . Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Lavan N, Anikin A ( 2026 ) . Making an impression: Participant-led voice synthesis reveals the acoustic signatures of trait impressions . Cognition vol. 271 ,

Lavan N ( 2025 ) . Time after time: Voice perception from first impressions to identity recognition . Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology vol. 78 , ( 12 ) 2583 - 2593 .

Lavan N, Irvine M, Rosi V, McGettigan C ( 2025 ) . Voice clones sound realistic but not (yet) hyperrealistic . PLOS ONE vol. 20 , ( 9 )

McGettigan C, Bloch S, Bowles C, Dinkar T, Lavan N, Chaim Reus J, Rosi V ( 2025 ) . Voice conversion and cloning: psychological and ethical implications of intentionally synthesising familiar voice identities . Journal of the British Academy vol. 13 , 0 - 0 .

Cai CQ, Ma R, Ng TH, White SJ, Lavan N ( 2025 ) . Autistic adults form first impressions from voices in similar ways to non‐autistic adults . British Journal of Psychology vol. 116 , ( 4 ) 1150 - 1163 .

Kanber E, Lally C, Rosi V, Garrido L, Lavan N ( 2025 ) . Representations of personally familiar voices are better resolved in the brain . Current Biology vol. 35 , ( 10 ) 2424 - 2432.e6 .

Lavan N, Ahmed A, Oteng CT, Aden M ( 2025 ) . Similarities in emotion perception from faces and voices: evidence from emotion sorting tasks . Cognition & Emotion vol. 40 , ( 1 ) 1 - 17 .

Smith HMJ, Ritchie KL, Baguley TS ( 2024 ) . Face and voice identity matching accuracy is not improved by multimodal identity information . British Journal of Psychology vol. 116 , ( 2 ) 367 - 385 .

Lavan N ( 2024 ) . Idiosyncratic and shared contributions shape impressions from voices and faces . Cognition vol. 251 ,

Lavan N, Rinke P ( 2024 ) . The time course of person perception from voices in the brain . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America vol. 121 , ( 26 )

Cai CQ, Lavan N, Chen SHY, Wang CZX, Ozturk OC, Chiu RMY ( 2024 ) . Mapping the differential impact of spontaneous and conversational laughter on brain and mind: an fMRI study in autism . Cerebral Cortex vol. 34 , ( 5 )

Lavan N ( 2024 ) . Left-handed voices? Examining the perceptual learning of novel person characteristics from the voice . Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology vol. 77 , ( 11 ) 2325 - 2338 .

Lavan N ( 2024 ) . Studying person perception from voices: Creating common ground by looking beyond accuracy . The Cognitive Psychology Bulletin vol. 1 , ( 9 ) 40 - 44 .

Lally C, Garrido L, Tsantani M ( 2023 ) . Neural representations of naturalistic person identities while watching a feature film . Imaging Neuroscience vol. 1 , 1 - 19 .

Guldner S, Lavan N, Lally C, Wittmann L ( 2023 ) . Human talkers change their voices to elicit specific trait percepts . Psychonomic Bulletin & Review vol. 31 , ( 1 ) 209 - 222 .

Lavan N ( 2023 ) . A model for person perception from familiar and unfamiliar voices . Communications Psychology vol. 1 , ( 1 )

Mileva M ( 2023 ) . Trait Impressions From Voices Are Formed Rapidly Within 400 ms of Exposure . Journal of Experimental Psychology General vol. 152 , ( 6 ) 1539 - 1550 .

Lavan N ( 2023 ) . The Time Course of Person Perception From Voices: A Behavioral Study . Psychological Science vol. 34 , ( 7 ) 771 - 783 .

Lavan N, Bamaniya NR, Price RLM ( 2023 ) . The effects of the presence of a face and direct eye gaze on voice identity learning . British Journal of Psychology vol. 114 , ( 3 ) 537 - 549 .

Lavan N ( 2022 ) . Trait impressions from voices: Considering multiple ‘origin stories’ and the dynamic nature of trait‐related cues . British Journal of Psychology vol. 114 , ( 2 ) 495 - 497 .

Lavan N ( 2022 ) . How do we describe other people from voices and faces? . Cognition vol. 230 ,

Brekelmans G, Lavan N, Saito H ( 2022 ) . Does high variability training improve the learning of non-native phoneme contrasts over low variability training? A replication . Journal of Memory and Language vol. 126 ,

Kanber E, Lavan N ( 2022 ) . Highly Accurate and Robust Identity Perception From Personally Familiar Voices . Journal of Experimental Psychology General vol. 151 , ( 4 ) 897 - 911 .

Lavan N, Chan WY, Mareschal I ( 2022 ) . Direct eye gaze enhances the ventriloquism effect . Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics vol. 84 , ( 7 ) 2293 - 2302 .

Njie S, McGettigan C ( 2022 ) . Talker and accent familiarity yield advantages for voice identity perception: A voice sorting study . Memory & Cognition vol. 51 , ( 1 ) 175 - 187 .

Lavan N ( 2022 ) . The effect of familiarity on within-person age judgements from voices . BRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY vol. 113 , ( 1 ) 287 - 299 .

Eerola T, Armitage J, Lavan N ( 2021 ) . Online Data Collection in Auditory Perception and Cognition Research: Recruitment, Testing, Data Quality and Ethical Considerations . Auditory Perception & Cognition vol. 4 , ( 3-4 ) 251 - 280 .

Waters S, Kanber E, Lavan N, Carey D, Cartei V, Lally C ( 2021 ) . Singers show enhanced performance and neural representation of vocal imitation . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences vol. 376 , ( 1840 )

Leongómez JD, Pisanski K, Reby D, Sauter D, Perlman M ( 2021 ) . Voice modulation: from origin and mechanism to social impact . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences vol. 376 , ( 1840 )

Lavan N, Collins MRN ( 2021 ) . Audiovisual identity perception from naturally‐varying stimuli is driven by visual information . British Journal of Psychology vol. 113 , ( 1 ) 248 - 263 .

Lavan N, Mileva M, Young AW, McGettigan C ( 2021 ) . Trait Evaluations of Faces and Voices: Comparing Within- and Between-Person Variability . Journal of Experimental Psychology General vol. 150 , ( 9 ) 1854 - 1869 .

Lavan N, Obleser J, McGettigan C ( 2021 ) . Familiarity and task context shape the use of acoustic information in voice identity perception . Cognition vol. 215 ,

Lavan N, Smith HMJ ( 2021 ) . Unimodal and cross-modal identity judgements using an audio-visual sorting task: Evidence for independent processing of faces and voices . Memory & Cognition vol. 50 , ( 1 ) 216 - 231 .

Knight S, Lavan N, Torre I, McGettigan C ( 2021 ) . The influence of perceived vocal traits on trusting behaviours in an economic game . Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology vol. 74 , ( 10 ) 1747 - 1754 .

Lavan N, Smith H ( 2021 ) . Explaining face-voice matching decisions: The contribution of mouth movements, stimulus effects and response biases . Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics vol. 83 , ( 5 ) 2205 - 2216 .

Lavan N ( 2021 ) . How Do We Describe Other People from Voices and Faces? .

Payne B, Lavan N, Knight S ( 2020 ) . Perceptual prioritization of self‐associated voices . British Journal of Psychology vol. 112 , ( 3 ) 585 - 610 .

Johnson J, McGettigan C, Lavan N ( 2020 ) . Comparing unfamiliar voice and face identity perception using identity sorting tasks . Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology vol. 73 , ( 10 ) 1537 - 1545 .

Lavan N, Mileva M ( 2020 ) . How does familiarity with a voice affect trait judgements? . British Journal of Psychology vol. 112 , ( 1 ) 282 - 300 .

Waters S, Kanber E, Lavan N, Carey D, Cartei V ( 2019 ) . Neural representations of enhanced speech motor control in trained singers . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America vol. 146 , ( 4 ) 2790 - 2790 .

Lavan N, Burston LFK ( 2019 ) . How many voices did you hear? Natural variability disrupts identity perception from unfamiliar voices . Br J Psychol vol. 110 , ( 3 ) 576 - 593 .

Lavan N, Merriman SE, Ladwa P, Burston LFK ( 2019 ) . 'Please sort these voice recordings into 2 identities': Effects of task instructions on performance in voice sorting studies . British Journal of Psychology vol. 111 , ( 3 ) 556 - 569 .

Lavan N, Knight S ( 2019 ) . The effects of high variability training on voice identity learning . Cognition vol. 193 ,

Lavan N, Knight S ( 2019 ) . Listeners form average-based representations of individual voice identities . Nature Communications vol. 10 , ( 1 )

Lavan N, Burston LF, Ladwa P, Merriman SE, Knight S ( 2019 ) . Breaking voice identity perception: Expressive voices are more confusable for listeners . Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology vol. 72 , ( 9 ) 2240 - 2248 .

Lavan N, Domone A, Kenigzstein N, Scott SK, McGettigan C ( 2018 ) . Speaker Sex Perception from Spontaneous and Volitional Nonverbal Vocalizations . Journal of Nonverbal Behavior vol. 43 , ( 1 ) 1 - 22 .

Lavan N, Burton AM, Scott SK ( 2018 ) . Flexible voices: Identity perception from variable vocal signals . Psychonomic Bulletin & Review vol. 26 , ( 1 ) 90 - 102 .

Knight S, Lavan N, Kanber E ( 2018 ) . The social code of speech prosody must be specific and generalizable . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America vol. 115 , ( 27 ) e6103 - e6103 .

Lavan N, Short B, Wilding A ( 2018 ) . Impoverished encoding of speaker identity in spontaneous laughter . Evolution and Human Behavior vol. 39 , ( 1 ) 139 - 145 .

Lavan N, McGettigan C ( 2017 ) . Increased Discriminability of Authenticity from Multimodal Laughter is Driven by Auditory Information . Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology vol. 70 , ( 10 ) 2159 - 2168 .

Kuhn LK, Wydell T, Lavan N ( 2017 ) . Similar representations of emotions across faces and voices . Emotion vol. 17 , ( 6 ) 912 - 937 .

Lavan N ( 2017 ) . Commentary: “Hearing faces and seeing voices”: Amodal coding of person identity in the human brain . Frontiers in Neuroscience vol. 11 ,

Lavan N, Rankin G, Lorking N, Scott S ( 2016 ) . Neural correlates of the affective properties of spontaneous and volitional laughter types . Neuropsychologia vol. 95 , 30 - 39 .

Lavan N, Scott SK, McGettigan C ( 2016 ) . Impaired generalization of speaker identity in the perception of familiar and unfamiliar voices . Journal of Experimental Psychology: General vol. 145 , ( 12 ) 1604 - 1614 .

Meekings S, Evans S, Lavan N, Boebinger D, Cooke M ( 2016 ) . Distinct neural systems recruited when speech production is modulated by different masking sounds . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America vol. 140 , ( 1 ) 8 - 8 .

Jasmin KM, McGettigan C, Agnew ZK, Lavan N, Josephs O ( 2016 ) . Cohesion and Joint Speech: Right Hemisphere Contributions to Synchronized Vocal Production . Journal of Neuroscience vol. 36 , ( 17 ) 4669 - 4680 .

Lavan N, McGettigan C ( 2015 ) . Laugh Like You Mean It: Authenticity Modulates Acoustic, Physiological and Perceptual Properties of Laughter . Journal of Nonverbal Behavior vol. 40 , ( 2 ) 133 - 149 .

Lima CF, Lavan N, Evans S, Agnew Z, Halpern AR, Shanmugalingam P, Meekings S ( 2015 ) . Feel the Noise: Relating Individual Differences in Auditory Imagery to the Structure and Function of Sensorimotor Systems . Cerebral Cortex vol. 25 , ( 11 ) 4638 - 4650 .

Scott SK, Lavan N ( 2014 ) . The social life of laughter . Trends in Cognitive Sciences vol. 18 , ( 12 ) 618 - 620 .

Lavan N ( 2014 ) . Neurocognitive Mechanisms for Vocal Emotions: Sounds, Meaning, Action . Journal of Neuroscience vol. 34 , ( 39 ) 12950 - 12952 .

Lavan N, Harvey H, Scott SK, McGettigan C ( 2014 ) . I thought that I heard you laughing: Contextual facial expressions modulate the perception of authentic laughter and crying . Cognition & Emotion vol. 29 , ( 5 ) 935 - 944 .

Brekelmans G, Lavan N, Saito H, Clayards M, Wonnacott E . Does high variability training improve the learning of non-native phoneme contrasts over low variability training? A replication .