 | Marcia K. Johnson |
Marcia K. Johnson, who has been appointed as the Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor of Psychology, is a leader in the field of human memory research.
Her early work focused on the relation between comprehension and memory, especially constructive and reconstructive mental processes. Johnson's laboratory pioneered in the systematic study of the mechanisms of memory distortion. For example, the work done by Johnson and her colleagues on "reality monitoring" has investigated how the memory representations of perception and thought -- i.e., interferences and imagination -- are alike and how they are different, how they are discriminated and why they are sometimes confused. Her laboratory is currently using neuroimaging to identify brain regions associated with monitoring the origin of information, to explore component processes of cognition, to examine the relation between cognition and emotion, and to pinpoint areas showing age-related dysfunction in memory processes. She and her colleagues have published numerous empirical articles, theoretical papers and chapters on these topics.
Johnson earned a B.A. and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of California at Berkeley. She was at the State University of New York at Stony Brook 1970-1985, rising through the ranks from assistant to full professor. Johnson was professor of psychology at Princeton University before coming to Yale in 2000. She served as acting chair of Yale's Department of Psychology in the spring of 2003 and is a member of the advisory committee for the Magnetic Resonance Research Center at the School of Medicine.
Johnson has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and a visiting scientist at the Memory Disorders Research Center at the Boston Veterans Affairs Medical Center. In addition to fellowships from the Guggenheim and Cattell foundations, she has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Mental Health and the National Institute on Aging.
Johnson has served on the editorial boards of various journals, including the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning and Memory; Psychological Bulletin; Psychological Review; and Neuropsychology. She is past chair of the Psychonomic Society and a trustee of the Cattell Foundation.
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