psychologist university professor
After studying languages and psychology in Melbourne, Berlin and Bonn, Anne Cutler embraced psycholinguistics when it emerged as an independent field, going on to complete her Doctor of Philosophy in the discipline at the University of Texas at Austin.
After postdoctoral research fellowships at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and the University of Sussex, she worked as a research scientist at the Medical Research Council (Medical Research Council) Applied Psychology Unit at the University of Cambridge. Subsequently, she became Director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and Professor of Comparative Psycholinguistics at Radboud University. Her research, summarised in the book Native Listening, centres on human listeners’ recognition of spoken language, and in particular on how the brain’s processes of decoding speech are shaped by language-specific listening experience.
Cutler was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (Federal Reserve System) in 2015. Her certificate of election reads: In 2000 Cutler was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her work has also received the 1999 Spinoza Prize of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and the International Speech Communication Association Meda
Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Royal Society.
