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Catherine T. Best publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Catherine T. Best sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 220 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Catherine T. Best D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Catherine T. Best sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Catherine T. Best is affiliated with Haskins Laboratories in the United States and has a research focus that spans psychology, linguistics, and speech science. Their work is prominently situated within the field of psychology, with a primary emphasis on experimental and cognitive psychology. Additional subfields include developmental and educational psychology, linguistics and language, cognitive neuroscience, and signal processing.

The research topics addressed by Catherine T. Best cover multiple aspects of speech and language processing. Key topics include phonetics and phonology research, linguistic variation and morphology, language development and disorders, speech and audio processing, multisensory perception and integration, speech recognition and synthesis, and hearing loss and rehabilitation.

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • Phonetica
  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Journal of Phonetics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Laboratory Phonology Journal of the Association for Laboratory Phonology

Coauthors who have frequently collaborated with Catherine T. Best include:

  • Donald Derrick
  • Sónia Frota
  • Wentao Lisbon
  • Nanjing Gu
  • Jongman Allard

Catherine T. Best has contributed to a range of research articles, some of the recent papers include:

  • "Native phonological and phonetic influences in perceptual assimilation of monosyllabic Thai lexical tones by Mandarin and Vietnamese listeners," 2020, Journal of Phonetics
  • "The Role of Acoustic Similarity and Non-Native Categorisation in Predicting Non-Native Discrimination: Brazilian Portuguese Vowels by English vs. Spanish Listeners," 2021, Languages
  • "Phonological and phonetic contributions to perception of non-native lexical tones by tone language listeners: Effects of memory load and stimulus variability," 2022, Journal of Phonetics
  • "Evidence for active control of tongue lateralization in Australian English /l/," 2021, Journal of Phonetics
  • "A short-form version of the Australian English Communicative Development Inventory," 2021, International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Best Publications

  • A direct realist view of cross-language speech perception

    C. T. Best

  • Nonnative and second-language speech perception : commonalities and complementarities

    Catherine T Best;Michael D Tyler;Ocke-Schwen Bohn;Murray J Munro

  • Discrimination of non-native consonant contrasts varying in perceptual assimilation to the listener's native phonological system

    Catherine T. Best;Gerald W. McRoberts;Elizabeth Goodell

  • Examination of perceptual reorganization for nonnative speech contrasts: Zulu click discrimination by English-speaking adults and infants.

    Catherine T. Best;Gerald W. McRoberts;Nomathemba M. Sithole

  • The emergence of native-language phonological influences in infants: A perceptual assimilation model.

    Catherine T. Best

  • Effects of phonological and phonetic factors on cross-language perception of approximants

    Catherine T. Best;Catherine T. Best;Winifred Strange

  • Identification and discrimination of Mandarin Chinese tones by Mandarin Chinese vs. French listeners

    Pierre A. Hallé;Yueh-Chin Chang;Catherine T. Best

  • Categorical perception of English /r/ and /l/ by Japanese bilinguals

    Kristine S. MacKain;Catherine T. Best;Winifred Strange

  • Infants' listening preferences: Baby talk or happy talk?

    Leher Singh;James L. Morgan;Catherine T. Best

  • Perceptual equivalence of acoustic cues in speech and nonspeech perception

    Catherine T. Best;Barbara Morrongiello;Rick Robson

  • Cross-language Perception of Non-native Tonal Contrasts: Effects of Native Phonological and Phonetic Influences:

    Connie K. So;Catherine T. Best

  • Null Subject Versus Null Object: Some Evidence From the Acquisition of Chinese and English

    Qi Wang;Diane Lillo-Martin;Catherine T. Best;Andrea Levitt

  • Learning to perceive the sound pattern of english

    C. T. Best

  • Emergence of Language-Specific Constraints in Perception of Non-Native Speech: A Window on Early Phonological Development

    Catherine T. Best;Catherine T. Best

  • Inter-language interference in VOT production by L2-dominant bilinguals : asymmetries in phonetic code-switching

    Mark Antoniou;Catherine T. Best;Catherine T. Best;Michael D. Tyler;Christian Kroos

  • Development of Phonological Constancy Toddlers' Perception of Native- and Jamaican-Accented Words

    Catherine T. Best;Catherine T. Best;Michael D. Tyler;Tiffany N. Gooding;Tiffany N. Gooding;Corey B. Orlando

  • Divergent developmental patterns for infants' perception of two nonnative consonant contrasts

    Catherine T. Best;Catherine T. Best;Gerald W. McRoberts;Rosemarie LaFleur;Jean Silver-Isenstadt

  • Perceptual assimilation and discrimination of non-native vowel contrasts

    Michael D. Tyler;Catherine T. Best;Alice Faber;Andrea G. Levitt

  • A Cardiac Measure of Cerebral Asymmetries in Infant Auditory Perception.

    Bradley B. Glanville;Catherine T. Best;Robert Levenson

  • Development of infant ear asymmetries for speech and music.

    Catherine T. Best;Catherine T. Best;Harry Hoffman;Bradley B. Glanville

  • Phonetic vs. phonological influences on French listeners' perception of American English approximants

    Pierre A. Hallé;Catherine T. Best;Andrea Levitt

Frequent Co-Authors

Louis Goldstein
Louis Goldstein University of Southern California
Brett J. Baker
Brett J. Baker The University of Texas at Austin
Denis K Burnham
Denis K Burnham Western Sydney University
Anne Cutler
Anne Cutler Western Sydney University
Paul Foulkes
Paul Foulkes University of York
Janet Fletcher
Janet Fletcher University of Melbourne
Mark Onslow
Mark Onslow University of Technology Sydney
David B. Grayden
David B. Grayden University of Melbourne
Carol A. Fowler
Carol A. Fowler University of Connecticut
Barbara Tillmann
Barbara Tillmann Laboratory for Research on Learning and Development

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