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Lori L. Holt is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at
Carnegie Mellon University and is affiliated with Pittsburgh’s Center for
the Neural Basis of Cognition. Dr. Holt’s research interests include how
general perceptual and cognitive mechanisms contribute to speech perception
and how speech can be used to broadly understand auditory cognition. In
pursuit of these research areas, she employs human perceptual and learning
paradigms as well as animal behavioral experiments and computational models.
Dr. Holt earned her B.S. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison, where she trained in the psychology and neurophysiology
departments. As a graduate student, she was awarded several research awards,
including a National Science Foundation Fellowship and a Matarazzo Award
from the American Psychology Association. Dr. Holt was recently awarded a
James F. McDonnell Foundation 21st Century Scientist Award for bridging
Mind, Brain and Behavior and has been recognized by the Acoustical Society
of America and Sigma Xi. Her research has been supported by the NIH, NSF,
The James F. McDonnell Foundation, Deafness Research Foundation, National Organization for Hearing Research, and The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation.
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