She is Professor of Psychology at the State University of New York at Binghamton where she directs the Event-Related Potential Lab.
[1] Van Petten was recipient of the Early Career Award from the Society for Psychophysiological Research in 1994.
[4] Van Petten attended graduate school at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and obtained a Ph.D in Neurosciences in 1989 under the supervision of Marta Kutas.
One of their first works examined neural responses to ambiguous words (e.g., bank) in a semantic priming task.
[7] Van Petten remained at UCSD as a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Cognitive Science, where she collaborated with Seana Coulson on ERP studies of conceptual/semantic integration and metaphor comprehension.