Randi Martin is the Elma Schneider Professor of Psychology at Rice University and Director of the T. L. L. Temple Foundation Neuroplasticity Research Laboratory.
[4] Previously, she served on the Governing Board of the Academy of Aphasia and held leadership positions in the Psychonomic Society.
In 1995 she was honored with the Claude Pepper Award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NICHD) to study how language processing breaks down as a result of brain damage caused by stroke.
Martin conducts research in the field of cognitive neuropsychology, with a specific focus on aphasia, psycholinguistics, and language processing in the brain.
With funding from the NICHD,[10] Martin and her colleagues have researched different types of short-term memory loss and its impact on word learning and sentence comprehension.