Karalyn Patterson
FRS FBA FMedSci
Karalyn Patterson at the Royal Society admissions day in London, 2014
Born
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
EducationSouth Shore High School
Alma materUniversity of California, San Diego (PhD)
SpouseRoy D. Patterson[1]
AwardsSuffrage Science award (2020)
Scientific career
FieldsCognitive neuropsychology
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
ThesisLimitations on retrieval from long-term memory (1971)
Websiteneurology.cam.ac.uk/researchgrps/syren/karalyn-patterson

Karalyn Eve Patterson, FRS, FBA, FMedSci is a British psychologist in Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. She is a specialist in cognitive neuropsychology[2][3][4] and an Emeritus Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.[5]

Early life and education

Patterson was born in Chicago and attended South Shore High School, Chicago, from which she graduated in 1961.[1] She completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at the University of California, San Diego, in 1971.[6]

Career and research

In 1975, Patterson moved to England to take a position at the Applied Psychology Unit of the Medical Research Council (MRC) in Cambridge.[7]

Awards and honours

Patterson is one of a select group of academics that are fellows of both the Royal Society, the UK's national academy for science, and the British Academy, the UK's national academy for humanities and social sciences.[5] Her nomination for the Royal Society reads:

Karalyn Patterson was one of the prime initiators of the field of cognitive neuropsychology. The different approaches she has developed to study brain based disorders of language and memory have brought great rigour to the field, and have allowed stringent tests of different theories. She is one of the very few people in the world able to adopt a truly multi-disciplinary approach including computational modelling, behavioural observation, neuropsychological testing and functional neuroimaging. Consequently, her work has led to a better understanding of how language and memory are organised in the brain, and how they unravel in Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia.[2]

In 2020, Patterson was awarded the Suffrage Science Life Sciences Award.[8]

Roy and Karalyn Patterson at home in Cambridge

Personal life

In addition to her academic roles, Patterson has an interest in food and wine, and has served as a wine steward at Darwin College, Cambridge.[1][9] Patterson is married to Roy D. Patterson.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "South Shore High School". sshs61.com. Archived from the original on 13 June 2018. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Dr Karalyn Patterson FMedSci FRS". royalsociety.org. Royal Society. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
  3. ^ "Patterson, Dr Karalyn, FRS, FMedSci". britac.ac.uk. British Academy. Archived from the original on 8 May 2014. Retrieved 7 May 2014.
  4. ^ Karalyn Patterson publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  5. ^ a b Anon (2015). "Patterson, Dr Karalyn Eve". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U255681. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. ^ Patterson, Karalyn Eve (1971). Limitations on retrieval from long-term memory (PhD thesis). University of California, San Diego. OCLC 017831735. ProQuest 302578477.
  7. ^ Yost, William A.; Leek, Marjorie R.; Meddis, Raymond (September 2015). "Acoustical Society of America Silver Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics: Roy D. Patterson". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 138 (3): 1865–1868. Bibcode:2015ASAJ..138.1865Y. doi:10.1121/1.4934193.
  8. ^ Arthur, Sophie (24 September 2020). "Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Professor Karalyn Patterson". suffragescience. Retrieved 2 October 2020.
  9. ^ Butler, Jose; Patterson, Karalyn (2016). "Darwin College Wine List" (PDF). darwin.cam.ac.uk. Darwin College, Cambridge. Retrieved 3 June 2018.
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