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Suparna Rajaram |
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©Jeanne Neville Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and
Personnel Professor Stony
Brook, NY 11794-2500 Fax: (631) 632-7876 e-mail:
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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 is also the Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
and Personnel in the College
of Arts and Sciences (2012-present).
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), Association for
Psychological Science (APS) and the Eastern
Psychological Association (EPA). She is an incoming elected member of the
Board of Directors of the Association
for Psychological Science (APS). She has previously 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 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), the Journal of
Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (1998-2002;
2006-2011), and the APA Dictionary of Psychology (2001-2005, published
2006). She is currently on the Editorial Board of Memory & Cognition. |
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