Patricia Ann Reuter-Lorenz is an American psychologist who is the Michael I. Posner Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Michigan.
Her doctoral research considered the distribution of attention in space and how this was biased contralateral to the activated hemisphere.
[citation needed] In 1992, Reuter-Lorenz joined the University of Michigan, where she established the Cognitive and Affective Neuropsychology Laboratory.
[citation needed] Reuter-Lorenz has studied the neural processes of the aging brain.
[3] Together with Denise Park, she showed that whilst the brain underwent structural degradation with aging, it simultaneously builds new neural circuitry to accommodate for these changes.