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