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Catherine (Cathi) Best is an American psycholinguist and Chair in Psycholinguistic Research at Western Sydney University. She is known for her works on speech perception and production.[1][2][3]

Catherine (Cathi) Best
Awards	NIH postdoctoral fellowship grant, NIH Research Career Development Award
Academic background
Education	Michigan State University (PhD)
Thesis	The role of consonant and vowel acoustic features in infant cerebral asymmetries for speech perception (1978)
Doctoral advisor	Hiram E. Fitzgerald Lauren Julius Harris
Other advisors	Alvin Liberman Michael Studdert-Kennedy
Academic work
Discipline	linguistics, psychology
Sub-discipline	psycholinguistics
Institutions	Western Sydney University (2004-) Wesleyan University (1984-2004) Columbia University (1980-1984)
Notable ideas	Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM)

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