| Catherine (Cathi) Best | |
| Awards: | NIH postdoctoral fellowship grant, NIH Research Career Development Award |
| Education: | Michigan State University (PhD) |
| Thesis Title: | The role of consonant and vowel acoustic features in infant cerebral asymmetries for speech perception |
| Thesis Url: | https://d.lib.msu.edu/etd/44575/datastream/OBJ/View/ |
| Thesis Year: | 1978 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Hiram E. Fitzgerald Lauren Julius Harris |
| Academic Advisors: | Alvin Liberman Michael Studdert-Kennedy |
| Discipline: | linguistics, psychology |
| Sub Discipline: | psycholinguistics |
| Workplaces: | Western Sydney University (2004-) Wesleyan University (1984-2004) Columbia University (1980-1984) |
| Notable Ideas: | Perceptual Assimilation Model (PAM) |
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]