Patricia A. Carpenter is a

psychologist A psychologist is a professional who practices psychology and studies mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior. Their work often involves the experimentation, observation, and interpretation of how indi ...

who, as of 1997, held the Lee and Marge Gregg Professorship of Psychology at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

. Carpenter has studied individual variability in working memory, comprehension rates in

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, and how brain function during complex cognitive tasks appears in

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. With

Marcel Just Marcel Just is D. O. Hebb Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. His research uses brain imaging (fMRI) in high-level cognitive tasks to study the neuroarchitecture of cognition. Just's areas of expertise include psycholinguistic ...

, she coauthored ''The Psychology of Reading and Language Comprehension'' (1987).

Education and career

Carpenter earned her Ph.D. in 1972 from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

, and on earning her doctorate joined the Carnegie Mellon University faculty.

Selected publications

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References

External links

Patricia Carpenter's Biography - CMU Department of PsychologyPatricia Carpenter's Biography - Center for the Neural Basis of CognitionQuantum Ontology: Minds, Brains, and Catalysts
American women psychologists American cognitive neuroscientists American women neuroscientists Stanford University alumni Carnegie Mellon University faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{US-psychologist-stub