Pritesh Pandya, Ph.D.

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