Publications

UNDER REVIEW

Navarro, M., O’Bryan, L. R., Segarra, S. (Under Review). Learning Time-Varying Turn-Taking Behavior in Group Conversations. 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP). preprint

PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

O’Bryan, L. R., Navarro, M., Hevia, J. S., & Segarra, S. (2025). ML-SPEAK: A theory-guided machine learning method for studying and predicting conversational turn-taking patterns. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. Advance online publication. link

Oxendahl, T. A., O’Bryan, L. R., & Beier, M. E. (2025). Trait Activation in Teams: Personality, Psychological Safety, Speaking Time, and Member Effectiveness. Small Group Research, 0(0). link

O’Bryan LR, Oxendahl T, Garnier, S, Segarra S, Wettergreen W, Sabharwal A, Beier ME. (2025) A Novel Approach to Studying the Role Influence Plays in Team Collective Intelligence. Collective Intelligence, 4(2) link

Bousquet, CA, Sueur, C, King, AJ, & O’Bryan, LR (2024). Individual and ecological heterogeneity promote complex communication in social vertebrate group decisions. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 379(1905), 20230204 link

O’Bryan LR, Oxendhal T, Chen X, McDuff D, Segarra S, Wettergreen M, Beier ME, Sabharwal A. (2024) Objective Communication Patterns Associated with Team Member Effectiveness in Real-world Virtual Teams. Human Factors, 66(5), 1414-1430 link

Papadopoulou M, Fürtbauer I, O’Bryan LR, Garnier S, Georgopoulou D, Bracken AM, Christensen C, King AJ. (2023) Dynamics of Collective Motion Across Time and Species. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 378(1874) link

O’Bryan LR, Segarra S, Paoletti J, Zajac, S, Beier M, Sabharwal A, Wettergreen M, Salas E. (2022) Conversational Turn-taking as a Stochastic Process on Networks. 56th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, Pacific Grove, CA, USA, pp. 1243-1247 link

O’Bryan LR, Schapiro S, Lambeth S, Wilson ML. (2021) Playbacks of Food-associated Calls Attract Chimpanzees to Known Food Patches in a Captive Setting. Primates, (62), 905-918 PDF

Sankey D, O’Bryan LR, Garnier S, Cowlishaw G, Hopkins P, Holton M, Fürtbauer I, King AJ (2021) Consensus of travel direction achieved by simple copying, not voting, in free-ranging goats. Royal Society Open Science, 8(2), 201128 link

O’Bryan LR, Lambeth SP, Shapiro SJ, Wilson ML (2020) Unpacking Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) Patch Use: Do Individuals Respond to Food Patches as Predicted by the Marginal Value Theorem? American Journal of Primatology, e23208 link

O’Bryan LR, Beier, M, Salas, E (2020) How approaches to animal swarm intelligence can improve the study of collective intelligence in human teams. Journal of Intelligence, 8, 1 link

O’Bryan LR, Abaid N, Nakayama S, Dey T, King AJ, Cowlishaw G, Rubenstein D, Garnier S (2019) Contact Calls Facilitate Group Contraction in Free-Ranging Goats (Capra aegagrus hircus). Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 7, 73 link

Ward JL, Love EK, Velez A, Buerkle NP, O’Bryan LR, Bee MA (2013) Multitasking males and multiplicative females: dynamic signalling and receiver preferences in Cope’s grey treefrog. Animal Behaviour, 86, 231-243 link

*Bee MA, Cook JM, Love EK, O’Bryan LR, Pettitt BA, Schrode K, Vélez A (2010) Assessing Multiple Levels of Acoustic Signal Variation in Boreal Chorus Frogs (Pseudacris maculata). Ethology, 116, 564-576 link
*all authors equal contributors