Catherine Best
American psycholinguist
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Catherine (Cathi) Best is an American psycholinguist and Chair in Psycholinguistic Research at Western Sydney University. She is known for her works on speech perception and production.[1][2][3]
AwardsNIH postdoctoral fellowship grant, NIH Research Career Development Award
EducationMichigan State University (PhD)
ThesisThe role of consonant and vowel acoustic features in infant cerebral asymmetries for speech perception (1978)
Doctoral advisorHiram E. Fitzgerald
Lauren Julius Harris
Lauren Julius Harris
Catherine (Cathi) Best | |
|---|---|
| Awards | NIH postdoctoral fellowship grant, NIH Research Career Development Award |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Michigan State University (PhD) |
| Thesis | The role of consonant and vowel acoustic features in infant cerebral asymmetries for speech perception (1978) |
| Doctoral advisor | Hiram E. Fitzgerald Lauren Julius Harris |
| Other advisors | Alvin Liberman Michael Studdert-Kennedy |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | linguistics, psychology |
| Sub-discipline | psycholinguistics |
| Institutions | Western Sydney University (2004-) Wesleyan University (1984-2004) Columbia University (1980-1984) |
| Notable ideas | Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM) |
