Sharon Thompson-Schill | |
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Born | June 24, 1970 |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Cognitive psychologist |
Employer | University of Pennsylvania |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | |
Thesis | Context Effects on Word Recognition: Implications for Models of Lexical Representation (1996) |
Doctoral advisor | John Gabrieli |
Other advisors | Gordon Bower David Rumelhart |
Sharon Thompson-Schill is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1] Her research covers the field of biological basis of human cognitive systems, including language, memory, perception, and cognitive control, and the relationships between these systems. As of 2023, she has produced more than 190 scientific publications,[2] which collectively have been cited over 18,000 times.[3]
At the University of Pennsylvania, Thompson-Schill served as the Chairperson of the Psychology Department from 2014 to 2019, as the founding Director of MindCORE from 2017 to 2019, and as the Director (2010-2014) and Co-Director (2014-2017) of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. She is also a member of the Committee on Science and the Arts at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia[4] and has served on the editorial boards of several scientific journals, including as Co-Editor-in-Chief of Cognitive Neuroscience.[5]
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