Rate My Professor Lori Holt

Holt specializes in auditory cognitive neuroscience, investigating speech perception through general auditory mechanisms. Her research integrates human psychophysics and learning paradigms across development, electrophysiology, neuroimaging, animal behavioral models, and acoustic analyses to explore auditory learning, categorization, selective attention, and statistical learning in speech and non-speech contexts. Implications extend to language acquisition, developmental disabilities, and computational speech understanding. Notable publications include "The auditory cognitive neuroscience of speech perception in context" (Holt & Peelle, 2022, Springer Handbook of Auditory Science), "Impaired and spared auditory category learning in developmental dyslexia" (Gabay, Roark, & Holt, 2023, Psychological Science), "Memory for incidentally learned categories evolves in the post-learning interval" (Gabay, Karni, & Holt, 2023, eLife), and "Phonetic category activation predicts the direction and magnitude of perceptual adaptation to accented speech" (Wu & Holt, 2022, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance). She has received the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences (2013), Acoustical Society of America Fellow status (2022), Association for Psychological Science Rising Star award (2007), and 21st Century Scientist Award from the James S. McDonnell Foundation (2002-2006). Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation, and others. Holt teaches undergraduate courses in Research Methods, Biological Foundations of Behavior, and Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience.