Biography:Brenda Rapp
Brenda Rapp | |
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| Born | Brenda Carla Rapp |
| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cognitive neuroscience |
| Institutions | Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University |
| Thesis | Sublexical orthographic structure in reading (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alfonso Caramazza Richard G. Schwartz |
| Website | Official website |
Brenda Carla Rapp[1] professor and chair of the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience at Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University.[2] In 2010, she was appointed joint editor-in-chief of the journal Cognitive Neuropsychology.[3]
Early life and education
Rapp is originally from Madrid, Spain.[4]
During the summer after completing high school, Rapp grew interested in helping children with learning and language disabilities.[4] She pursued a Special Education degree at the University of Maryland.[4]
Rapp gained her doctorate in psychology in 1990 from Johns Hopkins University.[1] She has worked there since.
Research and career
Rapp's main research interests are written word production (spelling)[5] and dysgraphia (spelling problems).[6]
Rapp has published over 150 papers in scientific journals, such as the Brain, Cognitive Neuropsychology and Frontiers in Psychology, and has been cited over 6,000 times.[7] She has commented on her research findings in various media outlets, including The Guardian , CNN and the Baltimore Sun.[8][9][10][11][12]
Bibliography
- Books
- Rapp, Brenda, ed (2001). The handbook of cognitive neuropsychology: what deficits reveal about the human mind. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Psychology Press. ISBN 9780863775925.
- Journals
- Rapp, Brenda; Beeson, Pelagie M. (June–July 2003). "Introduction: Dysgraphia: cognitive processes, remediation, and neural substrates". Aphasiology 17 (6–7): 531–534. doi:10.1080/02687030344000012. (Guest editors)
- Rapp, Brenda; Miozzo, Michele (2011). "Introduction to papers from the 5th Workshop on Language Production: The neural bases of language production". Language and Cognitive Processes 26 (7): 869–877. doi:10.1080/01690965.2010.544595. (Guest editors)
- Rapp, Brenda (2011). "Case series in cognitive neuropsychology: Promise, perils, and proper perspective". Cognitive Neuropsychology 28 (7): 435–444. doi:10.1080/02643294.2012.697453. PMID 22746685.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rapp, Brenda Carla (1990). Sublexical orthographic structure in reading (Ph.D thesis). Johns Hopkins University. OCLC 27285013.
- ↑ "Brenda Rapp". Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University. http://cogsci.jhu.edu/directory/brenda-rapp/.
- ↑ Rapp, Brenda (2010). "Editorial". Cognitive Neuropsychology 27 (1–2): 1–2. doi:10.1080/02687038.2010.514122. PMID 20812057.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Rapp studies brain recovery after strokes". The Johns Hopkins News-Letter. http://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2017/03/rapp-studies-brain-recovery-after-strokes/.
- ↑ Rapp, Brenda; Miozzo, Michele (2011). "Introduction to papers from the 5th Workshop on Language Production: The neural bases of language production". Language and Cognitive Processes 26 (7): 869–877. doi:10.1080/01690965.2010.544595. (Guest editors)
- ↑ Rapp, Brenda; Beeson, Pelagie M. (June–July 2003). "Introduction: Dysgraphia: cognitive processes, remediation, and neural substrates". Aphasiology 17 (6–7): 531–534. doi:10.1080/02687030344000012. (Guest editors)
- ↑ "brenda rapp - Google Scholar Citations". https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=adTFl-kAAAAJ&hl=en.
- ↑ Lea, Richard (2016-02-08). "Spelling uses multiple parts of the brain, research shows" (in en). https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/08/spelling-multiple-parts-of-brain-research-johns-hopkins-university.
- ↑ Gumbrecht, Jamie. "What makes a good speller (or a bad one)?". CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/26/health/spelling-bee-brain/index.html.
- ↑ Chapman, Ben. "Scientists hope to make strides in literacy tests by studying the brains of great spellers - NY Daily News" (in en-US). nydailynews.com. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/studying-brains-spellers-scientists-improve-tests-article-1.3001611.
- ↑ "Researchers explore how the brain separates our abilities to talk, write" (in en). The Hub. 2015-05-06. https://hub.jhu.edu/2015/05/06/language-reading-writing/.
- ↑ Wells, Carrie. "Studying stroke survivors gives Hopkins researchers a window into how we spell" (in en-US). baltimoresun.com. http://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-hs-stroke-spelling-20160223-story.html.
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