Karalyn Patterson
{{short description|British neuropsychologist}}
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| birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
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| fields = Cognitive neuropsychology
| workplaces = University of Cambridge
| prizes = Suffrage Science award (2020)
| education = South Shore High School
| alma_mater = University of California, San Diego
| thesis_title = Limitations on retrieval from long-term memory
| thesis_url = http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/017831735
| thesis_year = 1971
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| spouse = Roy D. Patterson
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Karalyn Eve Patterson is a British psychologist in Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. She is a specialist in cognitive neuropsychology{{cite web|title=Dr Karalyn Patterson FMedSci FRS|url=https://royalsociety.org/people/fellowship/2014/karalyn-patterson/|publisher=Royal Society|website=royalsociety.org|access-date=2014-05-07}}{{cite web|title=Patterson, Dr Karalyn, FRS, FMedSci|url=https://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/ord.cfm?member=6553|website=britac.ac.uk|publisher=British Academy|access-date=2014-05-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140508061607/https://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/ord.cfm?member=6553|archive-date=8 May 2014|url-status=dead}}{{Scopus id}} and an Emeritus Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.{{Who's Who | author=Anon|doi=10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U255681|title=Patterson, Dr Karalyn Eve | id = U255681 | year = 2015 | edition = online Oxford University Press}}
Early life and education
Patterson was born in Chicago and attended South Shore High School, Chicago, from which she graduated in 1961.{{cite web |title=South Shore High School |url=https://sshs61.com/page.php?groupingID=registration&page_num=71&sort=6&limit=5 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180613160715/https://sshs61.com/page.php?groupingID=registration&page_num=71&sort=6&limit=5|archive-date=2018-06-13|website=sshs61.com |access-date=3 June 2018 |language=en}} She completed her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at the University of California, San Diego, in 1971.{{cite thesis |degree=PhD |first=Karalyn Eve|last=Patterson |title=Limitations on retrieval from long-term memory |publisher=University of California, San Diego |year=1971 |author-link=Karalyn Patterson|oclc=017831735|id={{ProQuest|302578477}}}}
Career and research
In 1975, Patterson moved to England to take a position at the Applied Psychology Unit of the Medical Research Council (MRC) in Cambridge.{{cite journal |last1=Yost |first1=William A. |last2=Leek |first2=Marjorie R. |last3=Meddis |first3=Raymond |title=Acoustical Society of America Silver Medal in Psychological and Physiological Acoustics: Roy D. Patterson |journal=The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America |date=September 2015 |volume=138 |issue=3 |pages=1865–1868 |doi=10.1121/1.4934193|bibcode=2015ASAJ..138.1865Y }}
=Awards and honours=
Patterson is one of a select group of academics that are fellows of both the Royal Society, the UK's national academy for science, and the British Academy, the UK's national academy for humanities and social sciences. Her nomination for the Royal Society reads:
{{blockquote|Karalyn Patterson was one of the prime initiators of the field of cognitive neuropsychology. The different approaches she has developed to study brain based disorders of language and memory have brought great rigour to the field, and have allowed stringent tests of different theories. She is one of the very few people in the world able to adopt a truly multi-disciplinary approach including computational modelling, behavioural observation, neuropsychological testing and functional neuroimaging. Consequently, her work has led to a better understanding of how language and memory are organised in the brain, and how they unravel in Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia.}}
In 2020, Patterson was awarded the Suffrage Science Life Sciences Award.{{Cite web|last=Arthur|first=Sophie|date=2020-09-24|title=Life Sciences Awardee 2020: Professor Karalyn Patterson|url=https://www.suffragescience.org/post/karalyn-patterson|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201005200812/https://www.suffragescience.org/post/karalyn-patterson|url-status=usurped|archive-date=5 October 2020|access-date=2020-10-02|website=suffragescience|language=en}}
Personal life
In addition to her academic roles, Patterson has an interest in food and wine, and has served as a wine steward at Darwin College, Cambridge.{{cite web|title=Darwin College Wine List|first2=Karalyn|last2=Patterson|first1=Jose|last1=Butler|year=2016|url=https://www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/WINE%20LIST%20OCTOBER%202016%20inc%20VAT.docx.pdf|website=darwin.cam.ac.uk|publisher=Darwin College, Cambridge|access-date=3 June 2018|archive-date=3 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180603204243/https://www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/WINE%20LIST%20OCTOBER%202016%20inc%20VAT.docx.pdf|url-status=dead}} Patterson is married to Roy D. Patterson.
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Category:Female fellows of the Royal Society
Category:Fellows of the British Academy
Category:Fellows of the Academy of Medical Sciences (United Kingdom)
Category:British psychologists
Category:Fellows of Darwin College, Cambridge
Category:British neuroscientists
Category:British women neuroscientists
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society