Patricia A. Carpenter

35.6k total citations · 9 hit papers
101 papers, 23.7k citations indexed

About

Patricia A. Carpenter is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Patricia A. Carpenter has authored 101 papers receiving a total of 23.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 32 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 19 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Patricia A. Carpenter's work include Reading and Literacy Development (27 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (23 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (15 papers). Patricia A. Carpenter is often cited by papers focused on Reading and Literacy Development (27 papers), Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (23 papers) and Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies (15 papers). Patricia A. Carpenter collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Patricia A. Carpenter's co-authors include Marcel Adam Just, Meredyth Daneman, Timothy A. Keller, Jacqueline D. Woolley, Peter Shell, Keith R. Thulborn, Akira Miyake, Priti Shah, William F. Eddy and Sharlene D. Newman and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, NeuroImage and Psychological Review.

In The Last Decade

Patricia A. Carpenter

93 papers receiving 21.5k citations

Hit Papers

Individual differences in... 1976 2026 1992 2009 1980 1992 1980 1990 1976 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Individual differences in working memory and reading
    1980 4.6k citations Patricia A. Carpenter et al. profile →
  2. A capacity theory of comprehension: Individual differences in working memory.
    1992 2.9k citations Marcel Adam Just, Patricia A. Carpenter Psychological Review profile →
  3. A theory of reading: From eye fixations to comprehension.
    1980 2.5k citations Marcel Adam Just, Patricia A. Carpenter Psychological Review profile →
  4. What one intelligence test measures: A theoretical account of the processing in the Raven Progressive Matrices Test.
    1990 1.2k citations Patricia A. Carpenter, Marcel Adam Just et al. Psychological Review profile →
  5. Eye fixations and cognitive processes
    1976 1.2k citations Marcel Adam Just, Patricia A. Carpenter profile →
  6. Brain Activation Modulated by Sentence Comprehension
    1996 870 citations Marcel Adam Just, Patricia A. Carpenter et al. profile →
  7. The psychology of reading and language comprehension
    1986 738 citations Marcel Adam Just, Patricia A. Carpenter profile →
  8. Paradigms and processes in reading comprehension.
    1982 680 citations Marcel Adam Just, Patricia A. Carpenter et al. Journal of Experimental Psychology General profile →
  9. Paradigms and processes in reading comprehension.
    1982 591 citations Marcel Adam Just, Patricia A. Carpenter et al. Journal of Experimental Psychology General profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Patricia A. Carpenter United States 50 13.6k 11.0k 6.8k 3.4k 1.9k 101 23.7k
Marcel Adam Just United States 76 19.0k 1.4× 11.1k 1.0× 6.7k 1.0× 3.7k 1.1× 1.9k 1.0× 178 29.3k
Allan Paivio Canada 58 8.0k 0.6× 8.9k 0.8× 8.5k 1.3× 2.3k 0.7× 1.9k 1.0× 171 22.4k
Linda B. Smith United States 75 6.5k 0.5× 13.4k 1.2× 4.8k 0.7× 2.8k 0.8× 832 0.4× 328 21.0k
Walter Kintsch United States 60 9.2k 0.7× 17.2k 1.6× 9.0k 1.3× 7.5k 2.2× 3.0k 1.6× 163 32.2k
Fergus I. M. Craik Canada 97 30.6k 2.3× 13.0k 1.2× 11.4k 1.7× 3.3k 1.0× 1.8k 1.0× 279 43.4k
Randall W. Engle United States 73 18.7k 1.4× 9.1k 0.8× 14.9k 2.2× 2.9k 0.8× 806 0.4× 159 31.2k
John B. Carroll United States 44 7.2k 0.5× 8.0k 0.7× 9.6k 1.4× 3.2k 0.9× 2.8k 1.5× 178 25.7k
Alan Baddeley United Kingdom 113 36.7k 2.7× 21.0k 1.9× 15.9k 2.4× 4.1k 1.2× 1.7k 0.9× 390 60.7k
Marc Brysbaert Belgium 75 13.9k 1.0× 11.9k 1.1× 6.8k 1.0× 5.0k 1.4× 2.0k 1.1× 267 23.5k
Max Coltheart Australia 76 17.9k 1.3× 15.3k 1.4× 5.5k 0.8× 2.1k 0.6× 930 0.5× 358 27.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Anderson, John R., Bonnie E. John, Marcel Adam Just, et al.. (2018). Production System Models of Complex Cognition. Research Showcase @ Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon University). 2 indexed citations
2.
Hegarty, Mary, Patricia A. Carpenter, & Marcel Adam Just. (2016). Diagrams in the Comprehension of Scientific Texts. 25 indexed citations
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Just, Marcel Adam & Patricia A. Carpenter. (2013). Comprehending Reading at Work. 237–262.
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Just, Marcel Adam & Patricia A. Carpenter. (2013). Reading Comprehension as Eyes See It. 125–156. 13 indexed citations
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Carpenter, Patricia A., et al.. (2006). A Catalytic Theory of Embodied Mind. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 28(28). 3 indexed citations
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Koshino, Hideya, Patricia A. Carpenter, Nancy J. Minshew, et al.. (2004). Functional connectivity in an fMRI working memory task in high-functioning autism. NeuroImage. 24(3). 810–821. 442 indexed citations
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Mason, Richard, Marcel Adam Just, Timothy A. Keller, & Patricia A. Carpenter. (2003). Ambiguity in the Brain: What Brain Imaging Reveals About the Processing of Syntactically Ambiguous Sentences.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 29(6). 1319–1338. 73 indexed citations
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Newman, Sharlene D., Marcel Adam Just, Timothy A. Keller, Jennifer K. Roth, & Patricia A. Carpenter. (2003). Differential effects of syntactic and semantic processing on the subregions of Broca’s area. Cognitive Brain Research. 16(2). 297–307. 133 indexed citations
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Carpenter, Patricia A., Marcel Adam Just, Timothy A. Keller, et al.. (2001). Dynamic cortical systems subserving cognition: fMRI studies with typical and atypical individuals. 1 indexed citations
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Just, Marcel Adam, Patricia A. Carpenter, Mandy J. Maguire, Vaibhav A. Diwadkar, & Stephanie A. McMains. (2001). Mental rotation of objects retrieved from memory: A functional MRI study of spatial processing.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 130(3). 493–504. 46 indexed citations
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Just, Marcel Adam, et al.. (2001). Interdependence of Nonoverlapping Cortical Systems in Dual Cognitive Tasks. NeuroImage. 14(2). 417–426. 156 indexed citations
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Tomitch, Lêda María Braga, Marcel Adam Just, & Patricia A. Carpenter. (2000). Main Idea Identification: A Functional Imaging Study of a Complex Cognitive Process. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 22(22).
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Diwadkar, Vaibhav A., Patricia A. Carpenter, & Marcel Adam Just. (2000). Collaborative Activity between Parietal and Dorso-Lateral Prefrontal Cortex in Dynamic Spatial Working Memory Revealed by fMRI. NeuroImage. 12(1). 85–99. 136 indexed citations
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Just, Marcel Adam, Patricia A. Carpenter, & Sashank Varma. (1999). Computational modeling of high‐level cognition and brain function. Human Brain Mapping. 8(23). 128–136. 4 indexed citations
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Shah, Priti & Patricia A. Carpenter. (1995). Conceptual limitations in comprehending line graphs.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 124(1). 43–61. 117 indexed citations
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Carpenter, Patricia A., Akira Miyake, & Marcel Adam Just. (1995). Language Comprehension: Sentence and Discourse Processing. Annual Review of Psychology. 46(1). 91–120. 95 indexed citations
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Carpenter, Patricia A.. (1983). "Grundgestalt" as Tonal Function. Music Theory Spectrum. 5(1). 15–38. 7 indexed citations
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Just, Marcel Adam & Patricia A. Carpenter. (1980). A theory of reading: From eye fixations to comprehension.. Psychological Review. 87(4). 329–354. 2492 indexed citations breakdown →
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Just, Marcel Adam & Patricia A. Carpenter. (1975). Comparative studies of comprehension: An investigation of Chinese, Norwegian, and English. Memory & Cognition. 3(5). 465–473. 10 indexed citations
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Just, Marcel Adam & Patricia A. Carpenter. (1975). THE SEMANTICS OF LOCATIVE INFORMATION IN PICTURES AND MENTAL IMAGES. British Journal of Psychology. 66(4). 427–441. 30 indexed citations

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