Brenda Rapp
American cognitive neuroscientist
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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]
Brenda Rapp | |
|---|---|
| Born | Brenda Carla Rapp |
| Education | Johns Hopkins University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Cognitive neuroscience |
| Workplaces | Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Johns Hopkins University |
| Thesis | Sublexical orthographic structure in reading (1990) |
| Alfonso Caramazza Richard G. Schwartz | |
| Website | Official website |
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] She was awarded an honorary degree from UCLouvain on April 8th, 2025. [13]
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.
