Editorial Board
Heather Bortfeld
University of Connecticut and Haskins Laboratories · United States
Editorial leadership for Journal of Otolaryngology Advances ISSN 2379-8572
Research interests
- Pediatric Cochlear Implants Language Development Speech Perception
- Processing
Biography
- Heather Bortfeld is a Professor of Psychological Sciences at the University of California, Merced.
- She completed her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology at SUNY, Stony Brook in 1998.
- Her postdoctoral training at Brown University was supported by a National Research Service Award (NRSA) from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
- She was on the faculty at Texas A&M University and the University of Connecticut prior to arriving at UC Merced in 2015.
- Her research examines both healthy and atypical development with a focus on language.
Honors and Awards:
- 2010 - Ida Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
- 2008 - Ray A. Rothrock ’77 Fellow, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University.
- 2005 - Keynote Speaker and Honorary Inductee, Golden Key International Honor Society, Texas A&M Chapter.
- 1998 - Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health.
Selected publications
- Auditory cortex activation to natural speech and simulated cochlear implant speech measured with functional near-infrared spectroscopy 2014 cited 232×
- Auditory access, language access, and implicit sequence learning in deaf children 2017 cited 37×
- Functional near‐infrared spectroscopy as a tool for assessing speech and spoken language processing in pediatric and adult cochlear implant users 2018 cited 36×
- Tracking differential activation of primary and supplementary motor cortex across timing tasks: An fNIRS validation study 2020 cited 21×
- Joint Attention in Hearing Parent–Deaf Child and Hearing Parent–Hearing Child Dyads 2020 cited 9×
- The Cross-Modal Suppressive Role of Visual Context on Speech Intelligibility: An ERP Study 2020 cited 7×
Ranked by citation impact (Crossref) where available, newest otherwise · verified via ORCID.
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