Randall Wayne Engle is an American psychologist and professor of psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
[3] Engle is the principal investigator in the Attention & Working Memory Lab at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
[7] He also was the founder and Director of the Georgia State University/Georgia Institute of Technology Center for Advanced Brain Imaging.
As an undergraduate, he earned nearly as many credits in mathematics and zoology as in psychology, and only found out about the field through a fellow student who mentioned it during freshman orientation.
In 1973, Engle earned his Ph.D. His thesis was titled “The interaction between presentation rate, retention test and the negative recency effect.” After graduating, Engle spent two years at King College in Tennessee where he honed his teaching skills; he taught 10 courses per year.
His work attracted the attention of the University of South Carolina, where he was hired and would eventually be promoted to Professor in 1983.
Twelve years later, in 1995, Randy was offered the chair position in the School of Psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
The role of prefrontal cortex in working-memory capacity, executive attention, and general fluid intelligence: An individual-differences perspective.
[13] Below is a list of presentations and interviews given by Randall Engle: 2017 Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting Keynote Address[14]