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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
References
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^ Macpherson, Alexander (February 1997).
"Carnegie Mellon Facts 1997, Volume 11" (PDF). Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
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^ 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.
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^ Dunn, Marcia (1987-04-12).
"'War and Peace' in 15 Minutes? : Speed-Reading Cuts Time, and Comprehension". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
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^ Adams, Cecil (1992-02-14).
"Does speed reading training actually work?".
The Straight Dope. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
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^ Koprowski, Gene J. (1997-12-30).
"Hacking the Human CPU". Wired.
ISSN
1059-1028. Retrieved 2022-04-04.
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^ 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.
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^ Schreiner, Robert (1988).
"Review of The Psychology of Reading and Language Comprehension". Journal of Reading. 31 (8): 773–774.
ISSN
0022-4103.
JSTOR
40032974.
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^ 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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