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Anne Cutler, 77, Australian psycholinguist, director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
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|Elizabeth Anne Cutler FRS FBA FASSA ((1945-01-17)17 January 1945 – (2022-06-07)7 June 2022) was an Australian psycholinguist, who served as director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. A pioneer in her field, Cutler's work focused on human listeners' recognition and decoding of spoken language. Following her retirement from the Max Planck Institute in 2012, she took a professorship at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development, Western Sydney University.
Early life and education
Elizabeth Anne Cutler was born on 17 January 1945 in Armadale, Victoria. She attended the University of Melbourne, and in 1964 received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and German. Two years later she received her Diploma of Education in Modern Languages, and in 1971 received her master's degree in German linguistics. Cutler embraced psycholinguistics when it emerged as an independent field, going on to complete her PhD in the discipline at the University of Texas at Austin with her dissertation Sentence stress and sentence comprehension.
Career and research
After postdoctoral research fellowships at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Sussex, she worked as a research scientist at the Medical Research Council (United Kingdom) (MRC) Applied Psychology Unit at the University of Cambridge. Subsequently, she became Professor of Comparative Psycholinguistics at Radboud University. In 1993, she became a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, and held that title until 2012.
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.
Awards and honours
Cutler was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015 for her work on sentence processing and phoneme recognition. Cutler was elected as Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2007 and Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in 2008. In Australia, she was elected as Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2008 and as Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2009.
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 Medal. In 2020 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) and she received the Silver Medal in Speech Communication from the Acoustical Society of America (ASA).
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Trivia & Knowledge· 16 questions
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1.Where did Anne Cutler work as a research scientist at the Medical Research Council?
- A.University of Sussex
- B.Radboud University
- C.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- D.University of Cambridgecorrect
Anne Cutler worked as a research scientist at the Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit at the University of Cambridge.
Source: Career and research section
2.In what year did Anne Cutler become a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics?
- A.2012
- B.1993correct
- C.1999
- D.1990
In 1993, Anne Cutler became a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen.
Source: Career and research section
3.To which institute did Anne Cutler move after retiring from the Max Planck Institute in 2012?
- A.Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
- B.American Philosophical Society
- C.Medical Research Council Applied Psychology Unit
- D.MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Developmentcorrect
Following her retirement from the Max Planck Institute in 2012, Anne Cutler took a professorship at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development.
Source: Introduction
4.Which book authored by Anne Cutler summarizes her research on human listeners?
- A.Native Listeningcorrect
- B.Comparative Psycholinguistics
- C.Sentence stress and sentence comprehension
- D.Phoneme recognition in context
Anne Cutler's research is summarised in the book Native Listening.
Source: Career and research section
5.In what year was Anne Cutler elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society?
- A.2008
- B.2020
- C.2015correct
- D.2007
Anne Cutler was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2015.
Source: Awards and honours section
6.Which award did Anne Cutler receive from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research in 1999?
- A.Royal Netherlands Academy Award
- B.Spinoza Prizecorrect
- C.International Speech Communication Association Medal
- D.Silver Medal in Speech Communication
Anne Cutler's work received the 1999 Spinoza Prize of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research.
Source: Awards and honours section
7.Anne Cutler was elected as a Foreign Member of which organization in 2007?
- A.American Philosophical Societycorrect
- B.National Academy of Sciences
- C.Royal Society
- D.British Academy
Anne Cutler was elected as Foreign Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2007.
Source: Awards and honours section
8.In what year did Anne Cutler pass away?
- A.2015
- B.2022correct
- C.2012
- D.2020
Anne Cutler died on 7 June 2022.
Source: Introduction
9.What title did Anne Cutler hold at the Max Planck Institute after her tenure as Director?
- A.Foreign Associate Emeritus
- B.Professor Emeritus
- C.Director Emerituscorrect
- D.Research Scientist Emeritus
Anne Cutler served as director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.
Source: Introduction
10.What fellowship did Anne Cutler receive from the British Academy in 2020?
- A.FASSA
- B.FBAcorrect
- C.FRS
- D.ASA
In 2020 Anne Cutler was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).
Source: Awards and honours section
11.Anne Cutler held a professorship at which university following her 2012 retirement?
- A.University of Cambridge
- B.University of Melbourne
- C.Radboud University
- D.Western Sydney Universitycorrect
After retiring in 2012, Anne Cutler took a professorship at Western Sydney University.
Source: Introduction
12.What is the primary focus of Anne Cutler's psycholinguistic research?
- A.Historical linguistic shifts in German language
- B.The impact of sentence stress on written text
- C.Human listeners' recognition and decoding of spoken languagecorrect
- D.Neurobiological mapping of cognitive learning
Anne Cutler's work focused on human listeners' recognition and decoding of spoken language.
Source: Introduction
13.In what city was Anne Cutler born?
- A.Canberra
- B.Melbourne
- C.Sydney
- D.Armadalecorrect
Elizabeth Anne Cutler was born on 17 January 1945 in Armadale, Victoria.
Source: Early life and education section
14.What degree did Anne Cutler receive from the University of Melbourne in 1964?
- A.Bachelor of Arts in Modern Languages
- B.Bachelor of Science in Linguistics
- C.Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Germancorrect
- D.Bachelor of Philosophy in Psycholinguistics
In 1964, Anne Cutler received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and German from the University of Melbourne.
Source: Early life and education section
15.At which institution did Anne Cutler complete her PhD in psycholinguistics?
- A.University of Cambridge
- B.University of Melbourne
- C.University of Texas at Austincorrect
- D.Radboud University
Anne Cutler completed her PhD in psycholinguistics at the University of Texas at Austin.
Source: Early life and education section
16.What was the title of Anne Cutler's PhD dissertation?
- A.Native Listening
- B.Sentence stress and sentence comprehensioncorrect
- C.Comparative Psycholinguistics
- D.Decoding spoken language
Anne Cutler completed her PhD dissertation titled Sentence stress and sentence comprehension.
Source: Early life and education section
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