Officers
Suparna Rajaram (suparna.rajaram@sunysb.edu)
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Suparna Rajaram is Professor of Psychology at Stony Brook University. Her research focuses on memory and amnesia in humans. She is particularly interested in the distinction between implicit and explicit memory, between episodic and semantic memory, and in the contribution of perceptual and conceptual processes to memory and to new learning in amnesia. Rajaram also studies the role of attention, and in particular of inhibitory processes, in modulating long-term memory. Rajaram is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 3) and of the American Psychological Society, and currently an elected member of the Governing Board of the Psychonomic Society. She is currently serving as Associate Editor of Psychological Bulletin and has previously served as Associate Editor of Memory & Cognition. |
| (Stony Brook Univ.) | http://www.psychology.sunysb.edu/srajaram-/ |
Judith Kroll (jfk7@psu.edu)
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Judith F. Kroll is Liberal Arts Research Professor of Psychology and Linguistics at Pennsylvania State University. Her research takes a psycholinguistic approach to the acquisition, comprehension, and production of words in two languages during second language learning and in proficient bilingual performance. Together with Annette de Groot she co-edited Tutorials in Bilingualism: Psycholinguistic Perspectives (Erlbaum, 1997) and Handbook of Bilingualism: Psycholinguistic Approaches (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). She is a fellow of the American Psychological Society and of Division 3 of the American Psychological Association and currently a member of the Executive Committee of Division 3 of the APA. |
| (Penn State Univ.) | http://psych.la.psu.edu/faculty/kroll.html |
Randi Martin (rmartin@rice.edu)
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Randi C. Martin is the Elma Schneider Professor of Psychology and department chair at Rice University. She is an associate editor of the journal Cognitive Neuropsychology and serves on the Executive Committee of the Council of Graduate Departments of Psychology. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Her research on short-term memory and language processing in aphasia has been continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) since 1984. In 1995, she received a Claude Pepper Award from NIH that provided seven years of grant funding. Currently, her research focuses on short-term memory for semantic and phonological information and the role of these separable capacities in understanding and producing language. |
| (Rice University) | http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~rmartin/ |
Advisory Board
Mary Peterson
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Mary A. Peterson received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1984 and is currently Professor in the Department of Psychology and Research Social Scientist in the Cognitive Science Program at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on visual cognition, in particular, on the competitive processes involved in figure and ground assignment, the role of past experience and context in perceptual organization, and the use of implicit measures to index shape learning. She is a Fellow of the American Psychological Society and of the American Psychological Association. She was Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (1996-1999) and is currently on the editorial boards of that journal and of Psychological Science. With Gillian Rhodes,she co-edits a book series "Advances in Visual Cognition" for Oxford University Press. |
| (Univ. of Arizona) | http://www.u.arizona.edu/~mapeters/ |
Mary Potter
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Mary C. Potter is a professor of Psychology in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science at MIT. She got her B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1952 and her Ph.D. from Harvard in 1961. She has served on the Board of the Psychonomic Society, becoming Chair in 1991. She was Chair of the Faculty at MIT in 1985-87. She was on the Executive Committee of Attention and Performance, 1994-2002. She is a Fellow of the APA and APS, and a member of the Society of Experimental Psychologists.Her research interests are in high-level visual perception, attention, and memory, as well as psycholinguistics and picture comprehension. She is particularly interested in processes that occur in the first second or two after a stimulus has been presented, a period when conceptual short termmemory (CSTM) permits high-level comprehension. |
| (MIT) | http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/org/b/bcs/people/potter.shtml |
Valerie Reyna
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Dr. Valerie F. Reyna is Professor of Psychology and Director of the Laboratory for Rational Decision Making in the Department of Psychology at University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). She joined the faculty of UTA from the University of Arizona (UA). At UA, she was Director of the Informatics and Decision Making Laboratory in the College of Medicine and Director of the Division of Learning, Technology, and Assessment in the Arizona Research Laboratories. Reyna was also Professor of Surgery, Medicine, Biomedical Engineering and Public Health. Previously, she served as Senior Research Advisor for the United States Department of Education in Washington, D.C., overseeing federal research policies and programs. In addition, she is a Fellow of AAAS, APS, and three divisions of APA. |
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(UT- Arlington) |
http://reynalab.uta.edu |
Lynn Robertson
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Robertson is a Senior Research Career Scientist at the Veterans Administration medical facility in Martinez, CA and an Adjunct Professor of Psychology at UC Berkeley as well as a member of the Helen Wills Neurosciences Institute at UC, Berkeley. She received her PhD from Berkeley in 1980. Her research is on attention, visual perception, cerebral activation, and hemispheric asymmetries. She is currently funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Veterans Administration Medical Research program. She is a Fellow of AAAS, APS and APA. Robertson is a frequent contributor to journals such as Nature, Neuropsychology, Perception & Psychophysics, and the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. She has served as associate editor of Psychological Bulletin and on the consulting board of Neuropsychology. |
| (UC-Berkeley) | http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~lynnrob/ |
Kathy Spoehr
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Kathy Spoehr's major research focus is on the cognitive principles underlying optimal design for and use of computer-based learning environments. One aspect of her work investigates how multimedia technology can improve teaching and learning. A second area of research examines the memory representation and conceptual structure underlying the storage and retrieval of basic arithmetic knowledge. In addition, because of her previous experience as a university administrator, and her involvement as an advisory board member and participant in Brown University's Futures Project, Kathy also carries out research in higher education policy and practice. |
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