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Mattia Boccuti, 鈥溾楨 una voce per entro le fronde grid貌.鈥 Purg. XXII 142-154: una proposta interpretativa,鈥 Lettere Italiane 70.1 (2018): 100-115


Mattia Boccuti, 鈥溾楺uella ch鈥檃d aprir l鈥檃lto amor volse la chiave:鈥 Maria Domina Dei tra patrimonio laudistico e innovazione,鈥 Rivista di letteratura religiosa italiana 1 (2018): 13-24


Awarded a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship for her project, "A Time Capsule in Glass: Stella Variable and the Life of Henrietta Swan Leavitt".  Over the next 18 months she will conduct research at the Astronomical Photographic Plate Collection at the Harvard College Observatory (Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.) (May, 2020)


Received an R15 grant from the National Institutes of Health for 鈥淲hy does oral fluency predict silent reading comprehension? Neurocognitive markers of implicit meter as a potential mediator.鈥 The project is for three years. (2022)

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Tierney, A., Patel, A. D., Jasmin, K., & Breen, M. (2021). Individual differences in perception of the speech-to-song illusion are linked to musical aptitude but not musical training. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 12, 1681.


Breen, M., Fitzroy, A.B., & Oraa Ali, M. (2019). ERP evidence of implicit metric structure during silent reading. Brain Sciences. 


Breen, M. (2018). Effects of metric hierarchy and rhyme predictability on word duration in The Cat in the Hat. Cognition, 174.


Breen, M.,Kaswer L, Van Dyke JA, Krivokapic J and Landi N (2016). Imitated prosodic fluency predicts reading comprehension ability in good and poor high school readers.Frontiers in Psychology, 7:1026.


Breen, M. (2014). Empirical investigations of the role of implicit prosody in sentence processing. Language and Linguistics Compass. (2) 37-50.


Breen, M., Dilley, L.C., McAuley, J.D., and Sanders, L.D. (2014). Auditory evoked potentials reveal early perceptual effects of distal prosody on speech segmentation. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 29 (9), 1132-1146.