Ronald T. Kellogg received his Ph.D. from the University of Colorado in experimental psychology and is a Professor of Psychology at Saint Louis University. Author of The Psychology of Writing (1994), Cognitive Psychology (2003, 2nd. Ed.), and the Fundamentals of Cognitive Psychology (2007), his research currently focuses on the role of working memory in text composition and writing expertise.
Recent publications include a 2006 book chapter on professional writing expertise in The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance, a 2007 article on improving the writing skills of college students in the Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, and a 2008 article outlining a cognitive developmental theory of writing expertise in the The Journal of Writing Research.
He is a consulting editor for the American Journal of Psychology and also serves on the editorial board of Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal.
"Kellogg’s Cognitive Psychology is clearly written, highly informative, and consistently engaging. By integrating core material in cognitive psychology with the latest developments in cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging, Kellogg provides a broad, cutting edge view of the field today." —Daniel L. Schacter, Harvard University
