Anne Cutler

After postdoctoral research fellowships at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Sussex, she worked as a research scientist at the Medical Research Council (United Kingdom) (MRC) Applied Psychology Unit at the University of Cambridge.^[5] Subsequently, she became Professor of Comparative Psycholinguistics at Radboud University.^[5] In 1993, she became a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and held that title until 2012.^[7]

Her research, summarised in the book Native Listening,^[8] centres on human listeners' recognition of spoken language, and in particular on how the brain's processes of decoding speech are shaped by language-specific listening experience.^[5]

Cutler was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015 for her work on sentence processing and phoneme recognition.^[5][9] Cutler was elected as Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2007^[10] and Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in 2008.^[1] In Australia, she was elected as Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2008^[11] and as Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2009.^[12]

In 2000 Cutler was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.^[13] Her work has also received the 1999 Spinoza Prize of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research^[14] and the International Speech Communication Association Medal.^[5] In 2020 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA)^[15] and she received the Silver Medal in Speech Communication from the Acoustical Society of America (ASA).^[16]

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