Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders
Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh Department of Neuroscience
Distinguished Professor, University of Pittsburgh Department of Psychology
Senior Scientist, Learning Research & Development Center
- PhD, Washington University at St. Louis
Education & Training
- 06/01/25: Julie Fiez was a member of the team of Pitt researchers who greeted U.S. Representative Chris Deluzio on his tour of the UPMC Vision Institute. On this tour, demonstrations of physical rehabilitation research projects were presented.
- 01/21/25: "Research Super Connector" Julie Fiez, page 32; "Team Science Pro" Jen Iriti, page 59; and "Elevating Marginalized Voices in STEM Advocate" Angela Stewart, page 61 are featured in the 2023-24 Office on Research Report Annual Report.
- 11/01/24: LRDC Researchers Ranked in the World's Top 2% Scientists List.
- 05/01/23: Julie Fiez, Psychology, and Tessa McCarthy and Frances Mary D’Andrea, School of education, were awarded the Inaugural Joint School of Education-LRDC Faculty Research Award for "Studying the Neural Basis of Braille Literacy and Numeracy.”
- 09/06/22: Pittsburgh’s ‘Neighborly Playground’ for Neuroscience has New Leadership. Julie Fiez and Lori Holt, CMU, will lead the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC), a neuroscience research and education powerhouse, into its next era.
My lab relies upon a broad-based and interdisciplinary cognitive neuroscience approach to address questions that fall within two predominant strands of research. One strand is focused on the neural basis of language processing. Topics of interest include the articulatory and phonological codes involved in verbal working memory, and the ways in which different writing systems influence the representation and processing of orthographic information. A second strand is focused on basic learning systems in the human brain. We are especially interested in how cognition may be optimized by reinforcement learning signals mediated by the basal ganglia and error-correction signals mediated by the cerebellum.
