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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. Carpenter has studied individual variability in working memory, comprehension rates in speed reading, and how brain function during complex cognitive tasks appears in functional magnetic resonance imaging. With Marcel Just, she coauthored The Psychology of Reading and Language Comprehension (1987).

Education and career

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

Selected publications

• 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. PMID 1546114. 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. PMID 7413885.

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.

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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