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Randall Wayne Engle is an American psychologist and professor of psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Engle is known for his research on working memory, attentional control, and human intelligence. Specifically, his research investigates the nature of working memory, the causes of its limitations, its role in applied cognitive tasks, and the relationships between working memory, cognitive control, and fluid intelligence. His work has received funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, DARPA, and Office of Naval Research. Engle's work has influenced modern theories of cognitive and emotional control, and has had an impact on a number of fields including social psychology, emotion, psychopathology, developmental psychology, and psychological testing. According to Google Scholar, his work has been cited over 48,000 times. Engle is the principal investigator in the Attention & Working Memory Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Professional affiliations

Engle was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences on April 27, 2020. Engle is a Fellow and former President of the American Psychological Association's Society for Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Science, as well as a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Society of Experimental Psychologists. He also was a Chair of the Governing Board of the Psychonomic Society and a chair of the executive board of the Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018. Engle served as Editor-in-Chief for the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science for a decade. He also was the founder and Director of the Georgia State University/Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Brain Imaging.

Biography

Engle spent his childhood in rural West Virginia. He was the first college graduate in his family. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology from West Virginia State College in 1968. As an undergraduate, he earned nearly as many credits in mathematics and zoology as in psychology, and only found out about the field through a fellow student who mentioned it during freshman orientation. Engle was interested in the experimental study of thought and behavior, and began his graduate studies at Ohio State under the direction of D. D. Wickens. In 1973, Engle earned his Ph.D. His thesis was titled “The interaction between presentation rate, retention test and the negative recency effect.” After graduating, Engle spent two years at King College in Tennessee where he honed his teaching skills; he taught 10 courses per year. During this time he published several articles on modality effects in short-term memory. His work attracted the attention of the University of South Carolina, where he was hired and would eventually be promoted to Professor in 1983. Twelve years later, in 1995, Randy was offered the chair position in the School of Psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He accepted the position and served as chair for 13 years. Today, he is a professor of psychology at Georgia Tech.

Working Memory and Attention Control Tasks

The cognitive tests used in Engle's lab to measure individual differences in working memory capacity and attention control are freely available for download from the Attention & Working Memory Lab website: http://englelab.gatech.edu/taskdownloads.

Influential Publications

The following publications each have over 2,000 citations according to Google Scholar.

Engle, R. W., Tuholski, S. W., Laughlin, J. E., & Conway, A. R. (1999). Working memory, short-term memory, and general fluid intelligence: a latent-variable approach. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 128, 309–331.

Engle, R. W. (2002). Working memory capacity as executive attention. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 19–23.

Turner, M. L., & Engle, R. W. (1989). Is working memory capacity task dependent? Journal of Memory and Language, 28, 127–154.

Conway, A. R., Kane, M. J., Bunting, M. F., Hambrick, D. Z., Wilhelm, O., & Engle, R. W. (2005). Working memory span tasks: A methodological review and user's guide. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 12, 769–786.

Kane, M. J., & Engle, R. W. (2002). The role of prefrontal cortex in working-memory capacity, executive attention, and general fluid intelligence: An individual-differences perspective. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9, 637–671.

Presentations and Interviews

Below is a list of presentations and interviews given by Randall Engle:

2017 Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting Keynote Address
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0wyyfpj640

Brief History of Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woYyc-jcMJc

2019 meeting of the International Society for Intelligence Research
http://englelab.gatech.edu/about

An Interview with Professor Randall Engle
https://in-sightjournal.com/2016/05/22/an-interview-with-professor-randell-engle-adjunct-professor-psychiatry-emory-medical-school-professional-fellow-psychology-university-of-edinburgh-principle-investigator-attention-and-working/

References

1. "Randall W. Engle". Georgia Tech School of Psychology. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
2. ^ "Randy Engle, PhD". Attention & Working Memory Lab at Georgia Tech. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
3. ^ "Google Scholar page for Randall Engle". Google Scholar. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
4. "Six APS Fellows Elected to Membership in National Academy of Sciences". Aps Observer. 33. 29 June 2020. Retrieved 2020-07-14.
5. ^ "Randall W. Engle, PhD". FABBS. 30 August 2016. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
6. "Randall Engle Elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences". Georgia Tech (Press release). 2018-04-25. Retrieved 2018-08-14.
7. "New Directions After Current Directions". Aps Observer. 32. 25 November 2019. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
8. "Task Downloads". Attention & Working Memory Lab at Georgia Tech. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
9. Engle, R. W.; Tuholski, S. W.; Laughlin, J. E.; Conway ARA (1999). "Engle et al. (1999)". Journal of Experimental Psychology. General. 128 (3): 309–331. doi:10.1037/0096-3445.128.3.309. PMID 10513398.
10. "Engle (2002)". doi:10.1111/1467-8721.00160. S2CID 116230. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
11. Turner, Marilyn L.; Engle, Randall W. (April 1989). "Turner & Engle (1989)". Journal of Memory and Language. 28 (2): 127–154. doi:10.1016/0749-596X(89)90040-5. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
12. Conway, A. R.; Kane, M. J.; Bunting, M. F.; Hambrick, D. Z.; Wilhelm, O.; Engle, R. W. (2005). "Conway et al. (2005)". Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 12 (5): 769–86. doi:10.3758/BF03196772. PMID 16523997.
13. Kane, M. J.; Engle, R. W. (2002). "Kane & Engle (2002)". Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 9 (4): 637–71. doi:10.3758/BF03196323. PMID 12613671.
14. "2017 Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting Keynote Address". Youtube. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
15. "Brief History of Individual Differences in Working Memory Capacity". Youtube. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
16. "2019 meeting of the International Society for Intelligence Research". Youtube. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
17. "An Interview with Professor Randall Engle". In-Sight Publishing. 22 May 2016. Retrieved 2020-02-07.

External links

• Faculty page
• Lab page
• Curriculum Vitae
• Randall Engle publications indexed by Google Scholar

• Living people
• 21st-century American psychologists
• Georgia Tech faculty
• West Virginia State University alumni
• Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences alumni
• Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Fellows of the Society of Experimental Psychologists
• Fellows of the Association for Psychological Science
• American academic journal editors
• Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• Memory researchers
• American intelligence researchers
• Experimental psychologists
• 1946 births
• University of South Carolina faculty
• Fellows of the American Psychological Association
• Presidents of the American Psychological Association