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 Andrew J. Lotto, Ph.D.
Associate Professor: Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences;
Psychology
Director of the Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience
Experience (ACNE) Lab
Office: SPH 207C
Phone (Office): 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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 Megan M. Kittleson, M.S. CCC-SLP
Research Project Manager for ACNE Lab
Office: SPH 232
Phone (office): 520-626-7530
Fax: 520-621-9901
mkittles@email.arizona.edu
Megan graduated Magna Cum
Laude in 2008 with a B.S. in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences and Psychology from the
University of Arizona. As an undergraduate, she received the Excellence in Undergraduate Research Award and participated in the Undergraduate Biology Research Program (UBRP) and Biomedical Research Abroad: Vistas Open! (BRAVO!) program. She received her M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology in 2010 and was named a College of Science Galileo Circle Scholar. She finished her Clinical Fellowship Year in 2011 and then rejoined the lab as a research project manager. Megan originally joined the ACNE Lab in 2008 as a graduate research assistant. Currently she helps manage the logistics of the lab, annual conference (ACNS), and research involving the application of statistical models to auditory categorization.
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 Antonia “Davi”
Vitela, B.S.
Doctoral Student & Graduate Research Assistant
for the ACNE Lab
Office: SPH 207B
Phone (Lab): 520-621-9841
Fax: 520-621-9901
adv1@email.arizona.edu
Davi Vitela is a fifth 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 the same area. Davi has received numerous
awards and honors, the most recent having been named a Galileo Circle
Scholar. This is one of the
highest awards bestowed on students in the College of Science.
She joined the ACNE Lab in 2007 and is funded off of a research supplement
to promote diversity in health-related research, awarded to Dr. Lotto
in conjunction with his National Institutes of Health R01 Grant. She is working with Dr. Lotto on
a number of projects that examine talker normalization, auditory
context effects, rhythm grouping, and cue weighting.
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 Kathy M. Carbonell, B.S.
Doctoral Student & Graduate Research Assistant
for the ACNE Lab
Office: SPH 207D
Phone (Lab): 520-621-9841
Fax: 520-621-9901
kathyc@email.arizona.edu
Kathy (a.k.a. Nico) is a third year
doctoral student in Speech and Hearing Sciences. She graduated from the
University of Arizona in December 2007 with a B.S. in Speech, Language,
and Hearing Sciences. Kathy
completed one year of clinical training in Audiology before switching
over to the department’s doctoral program in the Fall of 2009. She recently received a
scholarship from Sertoma, an organization
focused on assisting people with hearing health issues and educating
the public on hearing health.
Nico joined the ACNE Lab in the Spring of 2007 while working on
an independent study with Dr. Lotto. As a bilingual (fluent in
English and Spanish), Kathy has provided much help with a number of our
studies in terms of experimental design, stimuli creation, and subject
recruitment. Kathy’s
current interests lie in auditory context effects. More specifically, how the
presence or absence of context influences target identification in
categorization tasks.
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 Johnna Tanji, B.A.
Doctoral Student
& Graduate Research Assistant for the ACNE Lab
Office: SPH 207A
Phone (Lab): 520-621-9841
Fax: 520-621-9901
tanjij@email.arizona.edu
Johnna "JoJo" is a first year doctoral Audiology student in the Speech and Hearing Sciences and has recently joined the lab in July of 2011. Though she received a B.A. in Physics and East Asian Languages and Culture from Beloit College (Wisconsin), she is originally from Honolulu, Hawaii. Prior to coming to the University of Arizona she spent two years teaching English in Japan on the JET (Japan Exchange and Teaching) Program. Currently she is working as a teaching assistant for Dr. Lotto and Davi, and helping with the Bayesian Research Project. In the future JoJo has dreams to become an awesome Audiologist and live near the ocean.
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 Paige D. Blain
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Office: SPH 236
Phone (Lab): 520-621-9841
Fax: 520-621-9901
pblain@email.arizona.edu
Paige “Gidget”
Blain is a sophomore at the University of Arizona, majoring in
History. She joined the
ACNE Lab in the fall of 2009 and is responsible for subject
recruitment, data collection, updating and maintaining the
lab’s digital library, as well as general administration. Paige claims to have gotten
her “PhD in Cats” from the “University of
Felines,” but we have yet to confirm this. In her free time she likes to
draw, paint, sew, and watch Netflix. She’s an adventurous
girl (as you can see in her picture) and loves Harry Potter (also in
her picture). Although
she is wearing a Gryffindor scarf, she is really a Slytherin.
She loves working in the ACNE Lab and loves Sarah’s
cookies more than life.
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Akila Prasad
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Office: SPH 236
Phone (Lab): 520-621-9841
Fax: 520-621-9901
akilap@email.arizona.edu
Akila
Prasad is a junior at the University of Arizona, majoring in Speech and Hearing Sciences and minoring in Spanish. She first started at the ACNE lab while doing an independent study with Dr. Lotto during the spring semester of her sophomore year, and is often responsible for data collection as well as subject recruitment. Akila loves to dance and eat endless amounts of baked goods in her spare time. She also hopes to eventually become the coolest audiologist the world has ever HEARD of.
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