Patricia Carpenter is the Lee and Marge Gregg Professor of Psychology and the Center Co-Director. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford in 1972. She holds an NIMH Senior Scientist Award. Her research interests include visuo-spatial processing, such as visualization and object recognition, language comprehension and executive processes in complex problem solving. Her interests span individual differences, the neural organization of the cognitive systems, neuropsychology, and the practical and educational implications of human processing characteristics. carpenter+@cmu.edu

Publications:

Selected Publications: Send requests for J&C reprints to pw5a+@andrew.cmu.edu. These articles are not available on-line.

Carpenter, P. A., & Just, M. A. (in press). Computational modeling of high-level cognition vs. hypothesis testing. To appear in R. J. Sternberg (Ed.), The concept of cognition.Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Carpenter, P. A., Miyake, A., & Just. M. A. (1995). Language comprehension: Sentence and discourse processing. Annual Review of Psychology, 46, 91-120. [Theory driven account of recent findings in sentence comprehension]

Carpenter, P. A., Miyake, A., & Just, M. A. (1994). Working memory constraints in comprehension: Evidence from individual differences, aphasia, and aging. In M. Gernsbacher (Ed.), Handbook of Psycholinguistics (pp. 1075-1122). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Just, M. A., Carpenter, P. A., Keller, T. A., Eddy, W. F., & Thulborn, K. R. (1996). Brain activation modulated by sentence comprehension. Science, 274, 114-116. [fMRI]

Haarmann, H., Just, M. A., & Carpenter, P. A. (1997). Aphasic sentence comprehension as a resource deficit: A computational approach. Brain and Language, 59, 76-120. [3CAPS model of aphasic comprehension]

Shah, P., & Carpenter, P. A. (1995). Conceptual limitations in comprehending line graphs. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 124, 43-61. [Comprehending statistical graphs]