AUDITORY COGNITIVE SCIENCE LAB

 

 

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PEOPLE

Andrew J. Lotto, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor: Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences; Psychology
Director: Auditory Cognitive Science Lab

Office: SPH 232

Phone (Office): 520-626-7530

Phone (Lab): 520-621-9841

Fax: 520-621-9901

alotto@email.arizona.edu

Dr. Andrew Lotto received his B.S. in Mathematics and Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  He stayed in Madison to obtain his Ph.D. in Psychology and to do a post-doc in the Neurophysiology department.  He has held faculty positions in the departments of Psychology at Loyola University Chicago, Psychology and Speech & Hearing Sciences at Washington State University, Psychology at the University of Texas – Austin, and Special Education & Communication Disorders at the University of Nebraska.  In addition, he was a staff scientist at Boys Town National Research in Omaha, NE.  His research examines the perception of complex sounds, such as speech.  When he is not in the lab, Dr. Lotto enjoys.

 

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Sarah C. Sullivan, M.A.
Research Specialist & Lab Manager for the Auditory Cognitive Science Lab

Office/Lab: SPH 207C

Phone (Lab): 520-621-9841

Fax: 520-621-9901

scsully@email.arizona.edu

Sarah graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2002 with a B.A. in Speech and Hearing Sciences from Washington State University.  As an undergraduate, Sarah worked with Dr. Lotto studying phonetic context effects and sex differences in speech.  She received her M.A. in Cognitive and Perceptual Psychology from The University of Texas at Austin in May 2005 under the supervision of Dr. Randy L. Diehl.  She joined the ACSL in 2006 on a volunteer basis and was officially hired as a research specialist and lab manager in the spring of 2007.  Sarah’s research interests include spoken language perception, individual differences in auditory abilities, speaker normalization, perceptual context effects, and applying Bayesian statistical models to auditory categorization.

 

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Antonia “Davi” Vitela
Graduate Research Assistant for Auditory Cognitive Science Lab

Office/Lab: SPH 207B

Phone (Lab): 520-621-9841

Fax: 520-621-9901

adv1@email.arizona.edu

Davi Vitela is currently a first year graduate student at the University of Arizona.  She obtained her B.S. from the U of A in Speech and Hearing Sciences in May 2007 and is now pursuing a Ph.D. in Audiology.  Davi has received numerous awards and honors, the most recent being the Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences Senior Award.  Davi comes to us with a good deal of research experience, having worked with Dr. Brad Story on a speech analysis project and Dr. Ted Glattke on an otoacoustic emissions study.  She joined the ACSL in 2007 and is working with Dr. Lotto on a number of projects that examine auditory context effects. 

 

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POST-DOC RESEARCH ASSOCIATE

 

 

Dr. Radhika Aravamudhan

Pennsylvania College of Optometry

radhika31@gmail.com

 

 

 


 

COLLABORATORS

Dr. Lori Holt

Carnegies Mellon University

lholt@andrew.cmu.edu

Dr. Randy Diehl

University of Texas at Austin

diehl@psy.utexas.edu

Dr. Julie Liss

Arizona State University

julie.liss@asu.edu

Dr. John Caviness

Mayo Clinic

Dr. Brad Story

University of Arizona

bstory@email.arizona.edu

Dr. Kate Bunton

University of Arizona

bunton@email.arizona.edu

Dr. Rebecca Gomez

University of Arizona

rgomez@u.arizona.edu

Dr. Gail Chermak

Washington State University

chermak@wsu.edu

Dr. Frank Musiek

University of Connecticut

Arizona State University

Frank.Musiek@uconn.edu

Dr. Pat Stelmachowicz

Boys Town National Research Hospital

 

Dr. Mi-Ran Cho Kim

University of Georgia

mrkim@uga.edu

 

Dana Ide Helvie, M.A., C.C.C.-SLP

Boys Town National Research Hospital

 

 

 

The University of Arizona

Tucson