Perceptual-Motor Learning
Workshop & Masterclass from Kittie Abbott, Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, and Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware
Date: Saturday September 20, 2025
Time: 8-9AM PST, 9-10am MST, 10–11 AM CST, 11AM-12PM EST, 4-5PM UK, 5-6PM CET, 6-7PM EEST
Can’t attend at the scheduled time? Register, and you can watch the recording afterward!
Kittie will review a key principles of perceptual-motor learning grounded in contemporary theory and empirical science. She will then work with singers to demonstrate how those principles may be applied in voice pedagogy and clinical voice. Central are experiential rather than mechanistic approaches to learning.
About Kittie
Kittie Verdolini Abbott is Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders, and Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware. Prior academic appointments include faculty positions at the University of Iowa, Harvard Medical School, and the University a Pittsburgh. She is a singer, actor, and teacher of singing, and specialized in voice disorders particularly in performers. Her PhD is in Experimental Psychology/Cognitive Science from Washington University in St. Louis (1991). Her research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health since 1997. She is an avid runner and grandmother of four.
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