Biography:Patricia Carpenter
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Short description: American psychologist
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]
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
- Daneman, Meredyth; Carpenter, Patricia A. (August 1980). "Individual differences in working memory and reading" (in en). Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 19 (4): 450–466. doi:10.1016/S0022-5371(80)90312-6. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0022537180903126.
- Just, Marcel A.; Carpenter, Patricia A. (1992). "A capacity theory of comprehension: Individual differences in working memory." (in en). Psychological Review 99 (1): 122–149. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.99.1.122. ISSN 1939-1471. http://doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi=10.1037/0033-295X.99.1.122.
- Just, Marcel A.; Carpenter, Patricia A. (1980). "A theory of reading: From eye fixations to comprehension." (in en). Psychological Review 87 (4): 329–354. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.87.4.329. ISSN 1939-1471. http://doi.apa.org/getdoi.cfm?doi=10.1037/0033-295X.87.4.329.
References
- ↑ Macpherson, Alexander (February 1997). "Carnegie Mellon Facts 1997, Volume 11". Carnegie Mellon University. https://www.cmu.edu/ira/factbook/pdf/facts1997/facts97.pdf.
- ↑ Waldrop, M. Mitchell (1987). "The Workings of Working Memory". Science 237 (4822): 1564–1567. ISSN 0036-8075. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1699777.
- ↑ Dunn, Marcia (1987-04-12). "'War and Peace' in 15 Minutes? : Speed-Reading Cuts Time, and Comprehension" (in en-US). https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-04-12-mn-1043-story.html.
- ↑ Adams, Cecil (1992-02-14). "Does speed reading training actually work?" (in en). https://www.straightdope.com/21342173/does-speed-reading-training-actually-work.
- ↑ Koprowski, Gene J. (1997-12-30). "Hacking the Human CPU" (in en-US). Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. https://www.wired.com/1997/12/hacking-the-human-cpu/.
- ↑ Rothkopf, Ernst Z. (1987). "The Eyes Have It: Two Books on Reading and Comprehension". Educational Researcher 16 (9): 45–47. doi:10.2307/1175731. ISSN 0013-189X. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1175731.
- ↑ Schreiner, Robert (1988). "Review of The Psychology of Reading and Language Comprehension". Journal of Reading 31 (8): 773–774. ISSN 0022-4103. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40032974.
- ↑ Steier, David M.; Mitchell, Tom M., eds (1996). Mind Matters: A Tribute To Allen Newell. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. p. 434. ISBN 9781317781257. https://books.google.com/books?id=0WgAAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA434.
External links
- Patricia Carpenter's Biography - CMU Department of Psychology
- Patricia Carpenter's Biography - Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
- Quantum Ontology: Minds, Brains, and Catalysts
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