Patricia Ann Reuter-Lorenz
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
State University of New York
Scientific career
InstitutionsClarke Institute of Psychiatry
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
University of Michigan
ThesisHemispheric control of spatial attention (1987)

Patricia Ann Reuter-Lorenz is an American psychologist who is the Michael I. Posner Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Michigan. Reuter-Lorenz is Chair of the School of Psychology and researches the cognitive mechanisms of attention. She was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Early life and education

Reuter-Lorenz was an undergraduate student at the State University of New York at Purchase in 1979. She moved to the University of Toronto for graduate studies, where she earned a master's degree in 1981. Her doctoral research considered the distribution of attention in space and how this was biased contralateral to the activated hemisphere.[1] During her doctorate, she worked as an intern at the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry in Toronto. She received her doctorate in 1987. Reuter-Lorenz spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell University before joining Dartmouth College as an assistant professor in research.

Research and career

In 1992, Reuter-Lorenz joined the University of Michigan, where she established the Cognitive and Affective Neuropsychology Laboratory. Her research considers the cognitive and neural mechanisms of attention.[2] Whilst she has served as a visiting researcher at University of Texas at Dallas and Bangor University, she remained at Michigan throughout her academic career. She was made Professor in 2002 and the Michael I. Posner Collegiate Professor in 2016.

Reuter-Lorenz has studied the neural processes of the aging brain.[3] Together with Denise Park, she showed that whilst the brain underwent structural degradation with aging, it simultaneously builds new neural circuitry to accommodate for these changes.[3] This model, known as CRUNCH, explains that loss in one area of the brain is compensated for by gains in others.[4] If this 'scaffolding' starts early, the cognitive decline occurs faster.[3][5][6]

Awards and honors

Selected publications

References

  1. Reuter-Lorenz, Patricia A; Kinsbourne, Marcel; Moscovitch, Morris (1990-03-01). "Hemispheric control of spatial attention". Brain and Cognition. 12 (2): 240–266. doi:10.1016/0278-2626(90)90018-J. ISSN 0278-2626. PMID 2340154. S2CID 13431246.
  2. "Neuroscience Research Day Features 48 Presentations". www.buffalo.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  3. 1 2 3 Weir, Kirsten. "Decoding the aging brain". www.apa.org. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  4. "The Right Kind of Practice May Give You the Memory You Want | U-M LSA Department of Psychology". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  5. Park, Denise C.; Reuter-Lorenz, Patricia (2009). "The Adaptive Brain: Aging and Neurocognitive Scaffolding". Annual Review of Psychology. 60: 173–196. doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.59.103006.093656. ISSN 0066-4308. PMC 3359129. PMID 19035823.
  6. Reuter-Lorenz, Patricia A.; Park, Denise C. (2014-08-21). "How Does it STAC Up? Revisiting the Scaffolding Theory of Aging and Cognition". Neuropsychology Review. 24 (3): 355–370. doi:10.1007/s11065-014-9270-9. ISSN 1040-7308. PMC 4150993. PMID 25143069.
  7. "Outstanding Mentor Award". www.apa.org. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  8. "Awardees – Justine & Yves Sergent Fund". Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  9. "Fellows | The Society of Experimental Psychologists". Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  10. "Recipients of Distinguished Faculty Achievement Awards".
  11. "Stanford University Names World's Top 2% Scientists, 2021 | U-M LSA Department of Psychology". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  12. "Patricia Reuter-Lorenz Named AAAS Fellow | U-M LSA Department of Psychology". lsa.umich.edu. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
  13. "2021 AAAS Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2022-02-21.
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