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Authorised form of nameCutler; Elizabeth Anne (1945-2022); experimental psychologist
Dates1945-2022
NationalityAustralian
Place of birthArmadale, Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Date of birth17 January 1945
Place of deathNijmegen, Gelderland, the Netherlands, Europe
Date of death7 June 2022
OccupationExperimental psychologist
Research fieldPsycholinguistics
Experimental psychology
ActivityEducation: University of Melbourne, B.A. (1964); Dip. Ed. (1966); M.A. (1971); University of Texas: Ph.D. (1975)
Career: Research assistant, Psychology Dept., University of Melbourne, Australia (1966-67); Research assistant, Linguistics Dept., University of Bonn, Germany (1968-1969); Teaching Fellow/Senior Teaching Fellow, German Dept., Monash University, Australia (1969-1971); Research assistant/Teaching assistant, Psychology Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA (1972-1975); Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychology Dept., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (1975-1976); Research Fellow, Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, University of Sussex, U.K (1976-1982); Research scientist at the Medical Research Council (United Kingdom) (MRC) Applied Psychology Unit at the University of Cambridge (1982-1993); Professor of Comparative Psycholinguistics at Radboud University; Director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands (1995-2013); Distinguished Professor, MARCS Institute, University of Western Sydney (2006-2022); Emeritus Director, Max-Planck-Institut fur Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen, The Netherlands (Director 1993-2013; Managing director 2001-2003, 2009-2010).
Memberships:
Spinoza Prize 1999
Member of the National Academy of Sciences 2008
Fellow of the British Academy 2020
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election30/04/2015
Age at election70
OtherInfoHer research, summarised in the book Native Listening (2012), 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. Her work received the Spinoza Prize of the Dutch Research Council and the International Speech Communication Association Medal, and she was an elected member of several scientific academies.
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SourceThe Royal Society Fellows Directory, Professor Anne Cutler FRS, [URL: https://royalsociety.org/people/anne-cutler-11296/; last accessed: 27/04/2026]
Wikipedia, Anne Cutler, [URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Cutler; last accessed: 27/04/2026]
CodeNA9998
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EC/2015/11Cutler, Elizabeth Anne: certificate of election to the Royal Society30 April 2015
IM/007726Cutler, Elizabeth Anne2015
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