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Diana Deutsch is Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Diego. She obtained her B.A. from Oxford University, and her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. Her work primarily involves per- ception and memory for sounds, particularly music. Deutsch has
been elected Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Audio Engineering Society, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the American Psychological Society, and the American Psychological Association. She has served as Governor of the Audio Engineering Society, as Chair of the Section on Psychology of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, as President of Division 10 of the American Psychological Association, and as Chair of the Society of Experimental Psychologists. In 2004 she was awarded the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Achievement in Psychology and the Arts by the American Psychological Association.
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