Brenda Rapp

Brenda Rapp
Born	Brenda Carla Rapp
Alma mater	Johns Hopkins University
Scientific career
Fields	Cognitive neuroscience
Institutions	Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University
Thesis	Sublexical orthographic structure in reading (1990)
Doctoral advisor	Alfonso Caramazza Richard G. Schwartz
Website	Official website

Brenda Carla Rapp[1] professor and chair of the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience at Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University.[2] In 2010, she was appointed joint editor-in-chief of the journal Cognitive Neuropsychology.[3]

Early life and education

Rapp is originally from Madrid, Spain.[4]

During the summer after completing high school, Rapp grew interested in helping children with learning and language disabilities.[4] She pursued a Special Education degree at the University of Maryland.[4]

Rapp gained her doctorate in psychology in 1990 from Johns Hopkins University.[1] She has worked there since.

Research and career

Rapp's main research interests are written word production (spelling)[5] and dysgraphia (spelling problems).[6]

Rapp has published over 150 papers in scientific journals, such as the Brain, Cognitive Neuropsychology and Frontiers in Psychology, and has been cited over 6,000 times.[7] She has commented on her research findings in various media outlets, including The Guardian, CNN and the Baltimore Sun.[8][9][10][11][12]

Bibliography

Books

• Rapp, Brenda, ed. (2001). The handbook of cognitive neuropsychology: what deficits reveal about the human mind. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Psychology Press. ISBN 9780863775925.

Journals

• Rapp, Brenda; Beeson, Pelagie M. (June–July 2003). "Introduction: Dysgraphia: cognitive processes, remediation, and neural substrates". Aphasiology. 17 (6–7): 531–534. doi:10.1080/02687030344000012. S2CID 218638970. (Guest editors)
• Rapp, Brenda; Miozzo, Michele (2011). "Introduction to papers from the 5th Workshop on Language Production: The neural bases of language production". Language and Cognitive Processes. 26 (7): 869–877. doi:10.1080/01690965.2010.544595. S2CID 4802333. (Guest editors)
• Rapp, Brenda (2011). "Case series in cognitive neuropsychology: Promise, perils, and proper perspective". Cognitive Neuropsychology. 28 (7): 435–444. doi:10.1080/02643294.2012.697453. PMC 3427758. PMID 22746685.

References

1. Rapp, Brenda Carla (1990). Sublexical orthographic structure in reading (Ph.D thesis). Johns Hopkins University. OCLC 27285013.
2. "Brenda Rapp". cogsci.jhu.edu. Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
3. Rapp, Brenda (2010). "Editorial". Cognitive Neuropsychology. 27 (1–2): 1–2. doi:10.1080/02687038.2010.514122. PMID 20812057.
4. "Rapp studies brain recovery after strokes". The Johns Hopkins News-Letter. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
5. Rapp, Brenda; Miozzo, Michele (2011). "Introduction to papers from the 5th Workshop on Language Production: The neural bases of language production". Language and Cognitive Processes. 26 (7): 869–877. doi:10.1080/01690965.2010.544595. S2CID 4802333. (Guest editors)
6. Rapp, Brenda; Beeson, Pelagie M. (June–July 2003). "Introduction: Dysgraphia: cognitive processes, remediation, and neural substrates". Aphasiology. 17 (6–7): 531–534. doi:10.1080/02687030344000012. S2CID 218638970. (Guest editors)
7. "brenda rapp - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
8. Lea, Richard (2016-02-08). "Spelling uses multiple parts of the brain, research shows". the Guardian. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
9. Gumbrecht, Jamie. "What makes a good speller (or a bad one)?". CNN. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
10. Chapman, Ben. "Scientists hope to make strides in literacy tests by studying the brains of great spellers - NY Daily News". nydailynews.com. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
11. "Researchers explore how the brain separates our abilities to talk, write". The Hub. 2015-05-06. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
12. Wells, Carrie. "Studying stroke survivors gives Hopkins researchers a window into how we spell". baltimoresun.com. Retrieved 2018-08-09.

External links

• Official website