“A spoken syllable may persist in the world for a mere tenth of a second. Yet, as adult listeners, we are able to gather a great deal of information from these floating acoustic signals. We may apprehend the physical location of the speaker, the speaker’s gender, regional dialect, age, emotional state, and identity, as well as the linguistic message. The ease of everyday conversation belies the complexity involved. Research in my lab focuses on the cognitive processes that underlie this feat.”
—Lori Holt, CMU psychology professor and director of the university’s Speech Perception and Learning Laboratory
Holt’s research has caught the attention of the National Academy of Sciences, which awarded her the $50,000 Troland Research Award, which recognizes “extraordinary scientific achievement” by a psychology researcher under the age of 40.
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