Patricia Carpenter (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[edit]

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

Daneman, Meredyth; Carpenter, Patricia A. (August 1980). "Individual differences in working memory and reading". Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior. 19 (4): 450–466. doi:10.1016/S0022-5371(80)90312-6.
Just, Marcel A.; Carpenter, Patricia A. (1992). "A capacity theory of comprehension: Individual differences in working memory". Psychological Review. 99 (1): 122–149. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.99.1.122. ISSN 1939-1471. S2CID 2241367.
Just, Marcel A.; Carpenter, Patricia A. (1980). "A theory of reading: From eye fixations to comprehension". Psychological Review. 87 (4): 329–354. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.87.4.329. ISSN 1939-1471.

^ Macpherson, Alexander (February 1997). "Carnegie Mellon Facts 1997, Volume 11" (PDF). Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
^ Waldrop, M. Mitchell (1987). "The Workings of Working Memory". Science. 237 (4822): 1564–1567. doi:10.1126/science.3629256. ISSN 0036-8075. JSTOR 1699777. PMID 3629256.
^ Dunn, Marcia (1987-04-12). "'War and Peace' in 15 Minutes? : Speed-Reading Cuts Time, and Comprehension". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
^ Adams, Cecil (1992-02-14). "Does speed reading training actually work?". The Straight Dope. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
^ Koprowski, Gene J. (1997-12-30). "Hacking the Human CPU". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
^ 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. JSTOR 1175731.
^ Schreiner, Robert (1988). "Review of The Psychology of Reading and Language Comprehension". Journal of Reading. 31 (8): 773–774. ISSN 0022-4103. JSTOR 40032974.
^ 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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