2026 Lori L. Holt: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Neuroscience	47	6467	5951	2811	2534	196	7806
Psychology	47	6230	5791	3371	3055	199	7776

Research.com Recognitions

2013 - Troland Research Awards, United States National Academy of Sciences For studies advancing our understanding of the sensory and cognitive processes that are fundamental to the perception of speech.

Overview

Lori L. Holt is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research spans mainly across the fields of Neuroscience and Psychology, with a substantial focus on Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Additional subfields include Developmental and Educational Psychology, Signal Processing, and Artificial Intelligence.

Their scholarly output covers a range of topics, notably Neuroscience and Music Perception, Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation, and Phonetics and Phonology Research. Other main topics in their work comprise Neural Dynamics and Brain Function, Speech and Audio Processing, Child and Animal Learning Development, and Linguistic Variation and Morphology.

Their publication record shows frequent contributions to several academic venues, including:

bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Cognition
Attention Perception & Psychophysics

Lori L. Holt has coauthored extensively with several researchers, with frequent collaborators including:

Jeremy M. Wolfe
Dennis M. Levi
Linda M. Bartoshuk
Rachel S. Herz
Daniel M. Merfeld

Recent selected papers authored by or involving Lori L. Holt include:

"Robust and Efficient Online Auditory Psychophysics," 2022, published in Trends in Hearing
"Cutting Through the Noise: Noise-Induced Cochlear Synaptopathy and Individual Differences in Speech Understanding Among Listeners With Normal Audiograms," 2021, published in Ear and Hearing
"Impaired and Spared Auditory Category Learning in Developmental Dyslexia," 2023, published in Psychological Science
"Generalization of dimension-based statistical learning," 2020, published in Attention Perception & Psychophysics
"Neural responses in human superior temporal cortex support coding of voice representations," 2022, published in PLoS Biology

Lori L. Holt is also an author of the book Sensation & Perception, published by Oxford University Press in 2024.

Among the recognitions received is the Troland Research Award from the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2013. This award was given for advancing the understanding of sensory and cognitive processes that are fundamental to speech perception.

Best Publications

Cue weighting in auditory categorization: implications for first and second language acquisition.

Lori L. Holt;Andrew J. Lotto

384
Citations
Are there interactive processes in speech perception

James L. McClelland;Daniel Mirman;Lori L. Holt

332
Citations
Speech perception as categorization

Lori L. Holt;Andrew J. Lotto

302
Citations
Reflections on mirror neurons and speech perception

Andrew J. Lotto;Gregory S. Hickok;Lori L. Holt

282
Citations
Perceptual compensation for coarticulation by Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica)

Andrew J. Lotto;Keith R. Kluender;Lori L. Holt

225
Citations
Temporally Nonadjacent Nonlinguistic Sounds Affect Speech Categorization

Lori L. Holt

209
Citations
Depolarizing the perceptual magnet effect.

Andrew J. Lotto;Keith R. Kluender;Lori L. Holt

199
Citations
Impaired Statistical Learning in Developmental Dyslexia

Yafit Gabay;Erik D. Thiessen;Lori L. Holt

196
Citations
Word Recognition Reflects Dimension-based Statistical Learning

Kaori Idemaru;Lori L. Holt

182
Citations
The mean matters: Effects of statistically defined nonspeech spectral distributions on speech categorization

Lori L. Holt

169
Citations
Neighboring spectral content influences vowel identification

Lori L. Holt;Andrew J. Lotto;Keith R. Kluender

167
Citations
Role of Experience for Language-Specific Functional Mappings of Vowel Sounds

Keith R. Kluender;Andrew J. Lotto;Lori L. Holt;Suzi L. Bloedel

157
Citations
Learning foreign sounds in an alien world: videogame training improves non-native speech categorization.

Sung-joo Lim;Lori L. Holt

153
Citations
Speech Perception Within an Auditory Cognitive Science Framework

Lori L. Holt;Andrew J. Lotto

135
Citations
Influence of fundamental frequency on stop-consonant voicing perception: a case of learned covariation or auditory enhancement?

Lori L. Holt;Andrew J. Lotto;Keith R. Kluender

131
Citations
Lexically guided phonetic retuning of foreign-accented speech and its generalization.

Eva Reinisch;Lori L. Holt

126
Citations
An interactive Hebbian account of lexically guided tuning of speech perception.

Daniel Mirman;James L. McClelland;Lori L. Holt

124
Citations
Expertise with artificial nonspeech sounds recruits speech-sensitive cortical regions.

Robert Leech;Lori L. Holt;Joseph T. Devlin;Frederic Dick

118
Citations
Incidental categorization of spectrally complex non-invariant auditory stimuli in a computer game task

Travis Wade;Lori L. Holt

114
Citations
Behavioral examinations of the level of auditory processing of speech context effects.

Lori L Holt;Andrew J Lotto

109
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Frederic Dick Birkbeck, University of London

James L. McClelland Stanford University

Daniel Mirman University of Edinburgh

Julie A. Fiez University of Pittsburgh

R. Mark Richardson Harvard University

Martin I. Sereno San Diego State University

Peter F. MacNeilage The University of Texas at Austin

Anne Fernald Stanford University

W. Tecumseh Fitch University of Vienna

Gregory Hickok University of California, Irvine

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