Lori L. Holt
Professor, Department of Psychology
Department of Psychology, Baker Hall
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Bio
Lori L. Holt is a Professor of Psychology at and is affiliated with 一本道无码's Neuroscience Institute and Pittsburgh’s . She has been a member of the and the at 一本道无码 since earning her Ph.D. from the in 1999. Dr. Holt is the recipient of a 21st Century Scientist Award for Mind, Brain and Behavior from the and her research has been recognized by awards from her peers at the , the and the . In 2007, the Association for Psychological Science named her a . In 2013, Dr. Holt was awarded the . Her research has been supported by the , the , the , the , the , the , and other foundations.
Dr. Holt is an expert in auditory cognitive neuroscience, with a focus on understanding how humans interpret the complexity of spoken language. Her research program builds from considering human speech recognition as arising from general, and not uniquely human or speech-specific, mechanisms. Her training includes single-unit electrohphysiology and animal behavioral models of audition in addition to human behavioral methods across development. Her current research program exploits human psychophysics and learning paradigms in adults and children, human electrophysiology, neuroimaging, animal behavioral models and acoustic analyses. One branch of her research uses the acquisition of first and second languages as a testing ground for models of auditory learning and categorization; another investigates the role of context in constraining and shaping auditory percepts. In recent work, she has worked closely with colleagues to develop new approaches to examining dimension-based auditory selective attention. The research has implications for critical periods in development, for developmental disabilities involving language and for research on computer understanding of speech. Here, you can find out more about ongoing projects.
Dr. Holt teaches undergraduate courses in Research Methods, the Biological Foundations of Behavior and Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience. She is co-Director of the (T32GM081760, with co-Director Dr. Julie Fiez, University of Pittsburgh), an NIH-supported graduate training grant to train the next generation of behavioral researchers to exploit biomedical techniques in their research.