Leonard Katz

Leonard Katz [http://web.uconn.edu/psychology/people/Faculty/Katz/Katz.html] is an American experimental psychologist. He was a Professor of Psychology at the University of Connecticut (1965-2006) and is now Professor Emeritus. In the late 1960's, he applied the emerging concepts and experimental techniques of the new cognitive psychology to study children's reading. He joined Haskins Laboratories in 1974 where he collaborated with Isabelle Liberman, Donald Shankweiler and others in the Haskins program that studied the relationships between speech and reading, particularly the idea that phonological awareness of speech is instrumental in developing skilled reading. His early work studied reading in English with American schoolchildren but soon was extended to include studies of reading in other alphabetic writing systems (French, Spanish, Turkish, Russian, Serbian) and nonalphabetic systems (Korean, Chinese). By the 1990's, he was a member of teams (led by B. and S. Shaywitz at Yale and K. Pugh at Yale and Haskins) that utilized brain-scan data from MRI, fMRI, and MRS to study reading. In addition to his research activity, he has been a resource consultant at UConn and Haskins on issues of experimental design and statistical analysis.

Education

B.A. and Ph.D. (1963) from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Postdoctoral training at Stanford University (1963-1965).

elected Publications

* Katz, L., & Wicklund, D. A. (1971). Word scanning rate for good and poor readers. Journal of Educational Psychology, 62, 138-140.
* Katz, L., & Feldman, L. B. (1981). Linguistic coding in word recognition: Comparisons between a deep and a shallow orthography. In A. Lesgold & C. Perfetti, Interactive Processes in reading. Hillsdale. NJ: Erlbaum.
* Katz, L. & Frost, R. (1992). The reading process is different for different orthographies: The orthographic depth hypothesis. In Frost, R. & Katz, L., (Eds.). Orthography, Phonology, Morphology, and Meaning, pp. 67-84. Amsterdam: Elsevier North Holland Press.
* Katz, L. (2005). Dyslexia. In Philipp Skutch (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Linguistics. New York: Routledge,. 2 volumes. (ISBN: 1-57958-391-1.)
* Katz, L., Lee, C.H., Tabor, W., Frost, S. J., Mencl, W. E., Sandak, R., Rueckl, J., & Pugh, K. R. (2005). Behavioral and Neurobiological Effects of Printed Word Repetition in Lexical Decision and Naming. Neuropsychologia. 43, 2068-2083.
* Katz, L. The neurobiology of dyslexia. (In press). Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language.

External links

* [http://www.haskins.yale.edu/ Haskins Laboratories]
* [http://www.psychology.uconn.edu/ University of Connecticut Psychology Department]