Randi Martin Explained

Randi C. Martin
Citizenship:United States
Occupation:Professor of Psychology
Alma Mater:
  • University of Oregon
  • Portland State University
  • Johns Hopkins University
Workplaces:Rice University

Randi Martin is the Elma Schneider Professor of Psychology at Rice University and Director of the T. L. L. Temple Foundation Neuroplasticity Research Laboratory.[1] With Suparna Rajaram and Judith Kroll, Martin co-founded Women in Cognitive Science in 2001,[2] an organization supported in part through the National Science Foundation's ADVANCE Leadership program.[3] She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP).

Martin is Senior Editor of the journal Cognition.[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.[5]

Biography

Martin received a B.A. (1971) in General Social Science and Mathematics from University of Oregon. She completed a M.A. (1975) in Psychology at Portland State University and a M.S. in psychology (1977),[6] under the supervision of James Paulson.[7] She continued her education at Johns Hopkins University where she earned a PhD (1979) in Psychology and a post-doctoral fellowship. At Hopkins, Martin worked with Alfonso Caramazza on studies of categorization[8] and short-term memory.[9]

Since 1982, Martin has been a member of the faculty of Rice University.

Research

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. Her research team uses neuroimaging (fMRI) to study language processing in individuals who have experienced brain damage or injury as well as in healthy individuals.[11]

Representation publications

References

  1. Web site: Randi Martin Department of Psychological Sciences School of Social Sciences Rice University. psychology.rice.edu. en. 2018-11-28.
  2. Web site: People Women in Cognitive Science. womenincogsci.org. en. 2018-11-28.
  3. Web site: NSF Award Search: Award#0317739 - ADVANCE Leadership Award: Collaborative Research: Women in Cognitive Science. www.nsf.gov. 2019-12-31.
  4. Web site: Randi Martin. www.journals.elsevier.com. 2018-12-04.
  5. Web site: Psychologist Awarded Seven-Year Grant to Study Memory. news.rice.edu. 2019-12-31.
  6. Web site: Randi Martin Department of Psychological Sciences School of Social Sciences Rice University. psychology.rice.edu. en. 2018-11-28.
  7. Martin. Randi. 1975-05-23. Alternative Methods for the Analysis of Curves. MS thesis . Portland State University . 10.15760/etd.2375 . free.
  8. Martin. Randi C.. Caramazza. Alfonso. 1980. Classification in well-defined and ill-defined categories: Evidence for common processing strategies.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. en. 109. 3. 320–353. 10.1037/0096-3445.109.3.320. 6447192. 1939-2222.
  9. Martin, R. C., & Caramazza, A.. 1982. Short-term memory performance in the absence of phonological coding. Brain and Cognition. en. 1. 1. 50–70. 10.1016/0278-2626(82)90006-9. 6927554. 16918947. 0278-2626.
  10. Martin. Randi. Short-term memory and syntactic deficits in aphasia. en.
  11. Martin. Randi C.. Wu. Denise. Freedman. Monica. Jackson. Edward F.. Lesch. Mary. 2003-07-01. An event-related fMRI investigation of phonological versus semantic short-term memory. Journal of Neurolinguistics. FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING CONTRIBUTIONS TO NEUROLINGUISTICS. 16. 4. 341–360. 10.1016/S0911-6044(03)00025-3. 53172134. 0911-6044.

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