Pritesh Pandya, Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor
- Department of Speech and Hearing Science
- College of Applied Health Sciences
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Education
- Degree
- Ph.D., Cognition and Neuroscience, University of Texas at Dallas, 2005
- Area of Professional Interest:
- Professor Pandya’s professional interests are in the areas of experience-dependent plasticity and speech sound processing. His long-term goal is to learn how sensory experience influences plasticity in the brain in order to determine how these factors can be manipulated for therapeutic benefit. Dr Pandya teaches coursework in the area of audiology and hearing disorders.
- Research Interests
- Understanding how complex sounds are represented and processed in the cortex
- Determining how acoustic experience drives neural plasticity
- Understanding the neural basis of rehabilitation and learning
- Awards, Academic and Professional Honors
- Fellow, Summer Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience 2005
- Council of Academic Programs in Communication Sciences and Disorders (CAPCSD)/Thomson Delmar Learning Award for Outstanding Research, 2005
- NIH-NIDCD Individual Predoctoral Fellowship, 2001-2004
- Lear Ashmore Award from Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Association, 2003
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- Publications
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- Professional Associations and Certifications
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