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.
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