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Lola Cuddy

Lola L. Cuddy (born 1939) is a Canadian psychologist recognized for her contributions to the field of music psychology. She is a professor emerita in the Department of Psychology at Queen's UniversityinKingston, Ontario.

Cuddy was born in 1939 and grew up in a musical family in Winnipeg, Manitoba.^[1] A trained pianist, she completed an undergraduate degree in psychology at United College (now the University of Winnipeg) in 1959, while also earning a diploma in music.^[1][2] She earned a master's degree (1961) and a PhD (1965) in psychology from the University of Toronto, under the supervision of Endel Tulving.^[1][2][3] In 1965, Cuddy and her husband, Mel Wiebe (a scholar of Victorian literature), left Toronto to accept positions at Queen's University.^[1][4]

In 1969, Cuddy established the Music Cognition Lab at Queen's University, the first music psychology laboratory in Canada^[5] and one of the first in the world.^[6] Her research program has examined a wide range of topics within music psychology,^[7] including melodic expectation,^[8] absolute pitch,^[9] and effects of musical training.^[10] A recent line of research explored music processing among individuals with Alzheimer's disease.^[7][11][12] This work garnered media attention for the finding that patients with memory loss associated with dementia may be able to maintain musical memories.^{[13][6][14][15]}

Cuddy served as editor of the journal Music Perception from 2002 to 2017, and as a consulting editor to the journals Musicae Scientiae and Psychomusicology.^[1][7][3] She was the president of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition from 2001 to 2002.^[7]

• 1987: Fellow, Canadian Psychological Association^[3]
• 2005: David Horrobin Prize for Medical Theory^[14]
• 2011: Lifetime Achievement Award, Society for Music Perception and Cognition^[7]
• 2011: Fellow, Association for Psychological Science^[16]
• 2017: Fellow, Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science^[3]