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Laurie Heller is a Teaching Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Psychology, affiliated with the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. She holds additional affiliations with the Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute (CMNI), CMU Music & Technology, CMU Center for Transformational Play, CMU CyLab Security and Privacy Institute, and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC). Her research focuses on auditory perception, cognitive neuroscience, and the interplay between sound and human cognition.
Education includes an S.B. in Brain & Cognitive Sciences from MIT, a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and a postdoctoral fellowship in Neuroscience at the University of Connecticut Health Center. Her work explores acoustic cues in sound event recognition, sound localization, and the effects of unwanted sounds. Collaborative projects include improving hearing aids, navigation aids for the visually impaired, and machine learning systems for sound classification.
Recent research trends emphasize misophonia, environmental sound perception in hearing-impaired populations, and AI-driven sound synthesis. Her courses include Auditory Perception, Research Methods in Cognitive Psychology, and Music Cognition. She leads the Auditory Perception Lab and serves as an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.
