Catherine (Cathi) Best | |
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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) |
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]