Patricia Carpenter (psychologist)

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Patricia A. Carpenter is a psychologist who, as of 1997, held the Lee and Marge Gregg Professorship of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. [1] Carpenter has studied individual variability in working memory, [2] comprehension rates in speed reading, [3] [4] and how brain function during complex cognitive tasks appears in functional magnetic resonance imaging. [5] With Marcel Just, she coauthored The Psychology of Reading and Language Comprehension (1987). [6] [7]

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Education and career

Carpenter earned her Ph.D. in 1972 from Stanford University, and on earning her doctorate joined the Carnegie Mellon University faculty. [8]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ Macpherson, Alexander (February 1997). "Carnegie Mellon Facts 1997, Volume 11" (PDF). Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  2. ↑ Waldrop, M. Mitchell (1987). "The Workings of Working Memory" . Science. 237 (4822): 1564–1567. Bibcode:1987Sci...237.1564W. doi:10.1126/science.3629256. ISSN   0036-8075. JSTOR   1699777. PMID   3629256.
  3. ↑ Dunn, Marcia (1987-04-12). "'War and Peace' in 15 Minutes? : Speed-Reading Cuts Time, and Comprehension". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  4. ↑ Adams, Cecil (1992-02-14). "Does speed reading training actually work?". The Straight Dope . Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  5. ↑ Koprowski, Gene J. (1997-12-30). "Hacking the Human CPU". Wired. ISSN   1059-1028 . Retrieved 2022-04-04.
  6. ↑ Rothkopf, Ernst Z. (1987). "The Eyes Have It: Two Books on Reading and Comprehension". Educational Researcher. 16 (9): 45–47. ISSN   0013-189X. JSTOR   1175731.
  7. ↑ Schreiner, Robert (1988). "Review of The Psychology of Reading and Language Comprehension". Journal of Reading. 31 (8): 773–774. ISSN   0022-4103. JSTOR   40032974.
  8. ↑ Steier, David M.; Mitchell, Tom M., eds. (1996). Mind Matters: A Tribute To Allen Newell. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. p. 434. ISBN   9781317781257.


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