Keith Rayner (psychologist)
{{Short description|Cognitive psychologist}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2015}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Keith Rayner
| image = Keithrayner.jpg
| caption = Rayner at UCSD in 2011
| birth_place = Dover, England
| birth_date = June 20, 1943
| death_date = January 21, 2015 (aged 71)[http://www.forevermissed.com/keith-rayner/#about Keith Rayner]. forevermissed.com[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/saltlaketribune/obituary.aspx?pid=173989313 Keith Rayner]. legacy.com
| death_place = San Diego, California, United States
| nationality = American
| field = Cognitive Psychology
| work_institution = University of California, San Diego
Atkinson Professor of Psychology{{cite web|url=http://psychology.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/krayner.html |title=Keith Rayner |work=psychology.ucsd.edu |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120320122839/http://psychology.ucsd.edu/people/faculty/krayner.html |archivedate=March 20, 2012 }}
{{cite web|url=http://raynerlab.ucsd.edu | title=Rayner Lab}}
| alma_mater = Bachelor of Science, Master of Science at University of Utah;
Ph.D. from Cornell University
| doctoral_advisors =
| doctoral_students =
| known_for = Cognitive Psychology, Eyetracking, Reading, Visual Perception
| prizes =
| footnotes =
}}
Keith Rayner (June 20, 1943 – January 21, 2015) was a cognitive psychologist best known for pioneering modern eye-tracking methodology in reading and visual perception.{{Cite journal|author=Rayner, K. |journal=Psychological Bulletin |volume= 124|issue=3 |pages=372–422 |year=1998 | title=Eye movements in reading and information processing: 20 years of research. | pmid=9849112 | doi=10.1037/0033-2909.124.3.372 |citeseerx=10.1.1.211.3546 }}
Early life
Keith Rayner was born on June 20, 1943, in Dover, England, to William Thomas and Olive Stock Rayner. The family emigrated to the United States in 1949 and settled in Salt Lake City, Utah. He served a mission with the LDS Church to England from 1962 to 1964 and married Susan Rae Knight on December 16, 1966, at the Salt Lake Temple.{{Cite web |title=Keith Rayner |url=https://www.larkinmortuary.com/obituary/view/HQ7hoaa3RdMKkbLIYRzQDDrt7ZbNNparchive/ |access-date=2024-10-26 |website=www.larkinmortuary.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Keith Rayner - In Memoriam |url=https://psychology.ucsd.edu/people/profiles/krayner-in-memoriam.html |access-date=2024-10-26 |website=psychology.ucsd.edu}}
Education and career
Rayner obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in psychology at the University of Utah and subsequently earned a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Cornell University with thesis titled The Perceptual Span and Peripheral Cues in Reading.{{Cite journal |date=May 2016 |title=About the Authors |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1529100615625998 |journal=Psychological Science in the Public Interest |language=en |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=iii–iv |doi=10.1177/1529100615625998 |issn=1529-1006}}
In 1973, he was appointed as an assistant professor of education, psychology, and visual science at University of Rochester. From there, he moved to the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1978. In 2008, Rayner moved to University of California, San Diego, where he held the position of Atkinson Family Professor of Psychology.[https://web.archive.org/web/20130317013942/http://raynerlab.ucsd.edu/Keith_Rayner.html Rayner Eyetracking Lab]. raynerlab.ucsd.ed
Rayner was the editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition from 1990 to 1995 and editor of Psychological Review from 2004 to 2010.
= Teaching positions =
Rayner taught at the following universities:
- University of Rochester (Assistant Professor of Education, Psychology, and Visual Science)
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (Emeritus Distinguished Professor)
- Oxford University (Visiting Professor)
- Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (Invited Visiting Fellow)
- University of Durham (Honorary Professor)
- Tianjin Normal University (Honorary Professor)
- University of Southampton (Honorary Professor)
- University of Potsdam (Visiting Humboldt Professor)
- University of California, San Diego (Atkinson Family Professor of Psychology)
Death
On January 21, 2015, Rayner died of multiple myeloma in La Jolla, California, at the age of 71.
Honors and awards
Rayner received numerous awards for his achievements. He received the University of Massachusetts Amherst Chancellor’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006,[https://web.archive.org/web/20130821042431/http://www.umass.edu/sbs/faculty/awards.htm Awards]. umass.edu the Bartlett Lecture Lifetime Achievement Award from the Experimental Psychology Society in 2007,Administrator. [http://www.eps.ac.uk/index.php/the-sir-frederic-bartlett-lectureship "Sir Frederic Bartlett Lectures: 1966–2015"]. eps.ac.uk. an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Award in 2009,[http://weber.ucsd.edu/notables/index.html "Division of Social Sciences"]. ucsd.edu. and a UC San Diego Chancellor’s Associates Research Award in 2010.[http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/awards/03-31ExcellenceHonors.asp "Faculty Excellence Awards"]. ucsd.edu. Rayner was named Carnegie Centenary Professor for 2011 by the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.{{Cite web |title=Stories in School of Social Sciences |url=http://www.dundee.ac.uk/cass/news/}}
References
{{Reflist|colwidth=30em}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rayner, Keith}}
Category:20th-century American psychologists
Category:American cognitive psychologists
Category:University of Utah alumni