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Suparna Rajaram |
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©Jeanne Neville Professor Stony
Brook, NY 11794-2500 Fax: (631) 632-7876 e-mail:
suparna(dot)rajaram(at)sunysb(dot)edu |
Suparna Rajaram received her B.A.
(1984) from Mt. Carmel College (Bangalore University, India) and M.A. (1986)
from Bangalore University (India).
She then moved to Purdue University where she
received her M.S. in Cognitive Psychology (1988) and then to Rice University where she received her
Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology (1991).
Rajaram then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Cognitive
Neuroscience at Temple University School of Medicine
(1991-1993). She joined Stony Brook University as an
Assistant Professor of Psychology in 1993
and has held the position of Professor of Psychology since 2003. Rajaram’s
research focuses on memory and amnesia in humans. She studies the differences between
implicit and explicit memory, the distinction between episodic and semantic
memory, and the contribution of perceptual and conceptual processes to memory
and learning. In this context, she examines the memory processes across the
spectrum of conscious awareness, with a study of conscious recollective
experience on the one hand and the process of acquiring new knowledge even in
the absence of an awareness of learning on the other. She also studies how attention,
particularly the deselection processes, modulate long-term memory. Rajaram
has recently begun a program of research on collaborative memory and, more
generally, on memory in a social context.
Her research and professional activities have been funded by the
National Institutes of Mental Health, the National Science Foundation, and
the Russell Sage Foundation. |
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Rajaram is a Fellow
of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Psychological Association (APA,
Division 3) and of the Association
for Psychological Science (APS). She
has served as Elected Chair (2008), Past Chair (2009) and Elected Member
(2004-2009) of the Governing Board of the Psychonomic
Society (2008) and as Chair of the Publications Committee of the Society
(2006-2007). She is one of three
co-founders and co-organizers of the Women in Cognitive Science group
(founded in 2001) that is affiliated with the Psychonomic Society. Rajaram has served as Associate
Editor of Psychological
Science (2007-2008), Psychological
Bulletin (2003-2005), and Memory & Cognition
(1998-2001), and on the Editorial Boards of the Journal
of Memory and Language (2001-2006) and the APA
Dictionary of Psychology (2001-2005, published 2006). She is currently on
the Editorial Boards of the Journal
of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition and Memory & Cognition. |
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