Marcia K. Johnson
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Marcia K. Johnson (born 1943) is an American psychologist and a Sterling Professor emeritus of psychology at Yale University. Her research has focused on human memory, specifically the component processes of reflection and consciousness, mechanisms of veridical and distorted memory, memory disorders (resulting from amnesia, frontal brain damage, aging), and the relation between emotion and cognition.
Career
Marcia Johnson received both her B.A. and Ph.D. in psychology from University of California, Berkeley. She joined the faculty at Yale in 2000, after previously teaching at Stony Brook University (1970 to 1985) and Princeton University (1985 to 2000). At Stony Brook, Johnson and John Bransford investigated the role of interpretation in memory. At Yale, She became the Dilley Professor of Psychology in 2004, and was appointed as a Sterling Professor in 2011.[1] Her former graduate students include Shahin Hashtroudi, Frank Durso, Mary Ann Foley, Tracey Kahan, Steve Lindsay, Elizabeth Phelps, Kristi Multhaup, Chad Dodson, Denise Evert, Mara Mather, John Reeder, Wil Cunningham, and Keith Lyle.
Johnson is the director of the Memory and Cognition Lab (MEMlab) at Yale, which "uses cognitive behavioral and neuroimaging (fMRI) techniques to investigate the nature of human cognition and memory" and developed developed the Source Monitoring Framework and the Multiple Entry, Modular memory system (MEM). The research topics include: (a) A component processes analysis of memory and cognition (b) Reality/source monitoring (c) The relation between emotion and cognition (d) The “self” in cognition (e) Changes in cognition associated with aging.[2]
Awards and Honors
Marcia Johnson is recipient of numerous awards, including the Association for Psychological Science (APS) Psychological Science Mentor Award (2019), the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Fred Kavli Distinguished Career Contributions Award in Cognitive Neuroscience (2017), the American Psychological Foundation Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in the Science of Psychology (2011), the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award (2006), and the APS William James Fellow Award (2006).
In 2019, Johnson won the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Computer and Cognitive Science for “developing innovative models of human memory with applications in psychology, brain science, human development, and our understanding of the malleability of memory in real-world settings.”[3] She's elected as a fellow of the British Academy in the same year.
References
- ^ (21 January 2011). Marcia Johnson is named Sterling Professor of Psychology, Yale Daily Bulletin
- ^ "Marcia Johnson | Department of Psychology". psychology.yale.edu. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
- ^ "Marcia K. Johnson". The Franklin Institute. 2018-11-27. Retrieved 2020-01-30.
External links
- Faculty Page for Marcia K. Johnson, Yale University Department of Psychology
- Memory and Cognition Lab, Yale University
- List of publications, Marcia K. Johnson
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