# Lynne M. Reder

Lynne M. Reder is an American psychologist and researcher who is an emeritus professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. She served on the faculty of the university until her retirement as a full professor emerita in 2021.
Reder's research has contributed to the field of human memory. She has published work related to artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction.

## Education

Reder received her undergraduate degree in Psychology at Stanford University in 1972, graduating as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. In 1976, she earned her PhD in Psychology from the University of Michigan. After completing an NIMH post-doctoral fellowship at Yale University from 1976 to 1978, she joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, where she served until her retirement in 2021 as a full professor emerita.

## Selected research and publications
### Role of Elaborations and Summaries in Memory Retention

* Reder, Lynne M (1979-04-01). "The role of elaborations in memory for prose". Cognitive Psychology. 11 (2): 221–234. doi:10.1016/0010-0285(79)90010-0. ISSN 0010-0285.
* Reder, Lynne M. (1980). "The Role of Elaboration in the Comprehension and Retention of Prose: A Critical Review". Review of Educational Research. 50 (1): 5–53. doi:10.2307/1170029. ISSN 0034-6543. JSTOR 1170029.

### Strategy Selection and Question Answering

* Reder, L.M. (1982). "Plausibility Judgments vs. Fact Retrieval: Alternative Strategies for Sentence Verification." Psychological Review
* Reder, Lynne M (1987-01-01). "Strategy selection in question answering". Cognitive Psychology. 19 (1): 90–138. doi:10.1016/0010-0285(87)90005-3. ISSN 0010-0285.

### Source of Activation Confusion (SAC) Model of Memory

Reder developed the Source of Activation Confusion (SAC) model, which explains various memory phenomena using activation-based principles.
* Ayers, Michael S.; Reder, Lynne M. (1998-03-01). "A theoretical review of the misinformation effect: Predictions from an activation-based memory model". Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 5 (1): 1–21. doi:10.3758/BF03209454. ISSN 1531-5320.
* Reder, L.M., et al. (2000). "A Computational Model of Remember/Know Judgments in a Continuous Recognition Paradigm." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition

### Role of Hippocampus in Memory

* Reder, Lynne M.; Park, Heekyeong; Kieffaber, Paul D. (2009). "Memory systems do not divide on consciousness: Reinterpreting memory in terms of activation and binding". Psychological Bulletin. 135 (1): 23–49. doi:10.1037/a0013974. ISSN 1939-1455. PMC 2747326. PMID 19210052.
* Park, Heekyeong; Quinlan, Joseph; Thornton, Edward; Reder, Lynne M. (2004-12-21). "The effect of midazolam on visual search: Implications for understanding amnesia". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101 (51): 17879–17883. Bibcode:2004PNAS..10117879P. doi:10.1073/pnas.0408075101. PMC 535584. PMID 15596721.

### Working Memory and Cognitive Resources

* Reder, Lynne M.; Liu, Xiaonan L.; Keinath, Alexander; Popov, Vencislav (2016-02-01). "Building knowledge requires bricks, not sand: The critical role of familiar constituents in learning". Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 23 (1): 271–277. doi:10.3758/s13423-015-0889-1. ISSN 1531-5320. PMID 26139355.
* Popov, Vencislav; Reder, Lynne M. (2021). "Frequency effects on memory: A resource-limited theory". Psychological Review. 127 (1): 1–46. doi:10.1037/rev0000161. ISSN 1939-1471. PMID 31524424.

## Honors and elected positions

* 2013 - 2017: Elected Member at Large, Section J, AAAS
* 2011 - 2016: Elected to Governing Board of The Psychonomic Society
* 2010: Elected to the Memory Disorders Research Society (MDRS)
* 2007: Elected to the Society of Experimental Psychologists
* 2005: Elected Fellow, Association for Psychological Science
* 2001: Elected Fellow, American Association for Advancement of Science
* 1999: Elected Fellow, American Psychological Association