Prof alfonso caramazza biography

Research in my laboratory has principally focused on problems of lexical processing -- to understand the organization and processing structure of the lexical.
Professor Caramazza was born in Italy and later emigrated with his parents to Canada, where in 1970 he received a B.A. degree in psychology from.
Alfonso Caramazza.

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Psychology educator

Alfonso Caramazza, American Psychology educator. Fellow National Research Council; recipient Javits Neuroscience Investigator award National Institutes of Health.

Background

Caramazza, Alfonso was born on June 22, 1946 in Aragona, Agrigento, Italy. Son of Carmelo and Emma (Zammuto) Caramazza. came to the United States, 1970.

Education

Bachelor in Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 1970; Master of Arts, Johns Hopkins University, 1972; Doctor of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, 1974; Doctor (honorary), University Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 1993.

Career

From assistant professor to associate professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1974-1981; professor, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1981-1993; chair, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, 1987-1992; David T. McLaughlin Distinguished professor, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1993-1995; professor, Harvard University, since 1995. Advisory board Journal Cognitive Neuroscience, since

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Alfonso Caramazza

A number of specific issues concerning the structure of lexical forms and their relation to grammatical, morphological and semantic information are being pursued. These issues are addressed through research with brain-damaged and normal subjects. The analysis of the impaired performance of brain-damaged subjects provides a window into the organization and structure of normal language processes and their possible neural substrates. Some of the specific issues currently being pursued are: 1) the structure of lexical-orthographic representations; 2) the representation of grammatical class information; and 3) the representation and processing of morphological structure. A related set of interests concerns the organization of the naming, reading and spelling systems as revealed through the analysis of acquired anomia, dyslexia, and dysgraphia. For example, what are the implications of the production of semantic errors in naming, reading and spelling for the structure of these processes? That is, what can we learn about the structure of seman

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Psych. Professor To Join Faculty

An expert in the understanding and production of language has accepted a tenure offer in the psychology department.

Alfonso Caramazza, professor of psychology at Dartmouth and adjunct professor of psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School, said last night he has accepted a professorship.

"I'm very excited about joining the faculty of Harvard," Caramazza said. "It has the reputation of having some of the very brightest undergraduates."

Caramazza said his research focuses on studying language dysfunctions in brain-damaged subjects.

Professor of Psychology Patrick Cavanaugh said Caramazza's area of specialization will be an important addition to the department.

"He does psycholinguistics--the study of understanding and production of language," Cavanaugh said.

"It's a field that's really central to human cognition--very volatile," Cavanaugh said. "Alfonso is at the top of this and we don't have the resources in psycholinguistics. He's really the capstone to our recent rebuilding of the experimental [psychology] side of the department."

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