Charles Perfetti

Director, Senior Scientist, Learning Research and Development Center

Distinguished University Professor, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Psychology

Co-Director, Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center

Lab

https://www.lrdc.pitt.edu/perfettilab

Education and Training

PhD, University of Michigan

Research Interests

My central research interest is in the cognitive science of reading and language processes. The research spans lower and higher level processes and the nature of reading ability and second language processes. My approach involves multiple research methods in behavioral, ERP and fMRI labs. The general goal is to achieve a richer view of language processes by the combination of methods.

Recent Publications

Zhou, L., & Perfetti, C. (2023). Global mapping congruence influences phonological interference: ERP evidence for early and persistent ortho-phonological effects in reading Chinese for meaning.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition. 

Harris, L.N., Creed, B., Perfetti, C.A., & Rickles, B.B.  (2022). The role of word knowledge in error detection: a challenge to the broken error monitor account of dyslexia. Annals of Dyslexia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11881-021-00248-8

Norberg, K. A., Perfetti, C., & Helder, A. (2022). Word-to-text integration and antecedent accessibility: Eye-tracking evidence extends results of event-related potentials (ERPs).  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.  Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0001127

Calloway, R.C., Helder, A. & Perfetti, C.A. (2022). A measure of individual differences in readers’ approaches to text and its relation to reading experience and reading comprehension. Behavior Research Methods.

Perfetti, C. A., & Helder, A. (2022). Progress in reading science: Word identification, comprehension, and universal perspectives. In The Science of Reading: A Handbook 2nd Edition (M. Snowling, C. Hulme, & K. Nation, eds.) Cambridge University Press.

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