| LC control no. | n 81020817 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Patterson, Francine |
| Variant(s) | Patterson, Penny |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Woodside (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 19470213 |
| Place of birth | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Field of activity | Gorilla--Psychology Psychology, Comparative Human-animal communication |
| Affiliation | Gorilla Foundation Santa Clara University (Calif.) |
| Found in | Her The education of Koko, c1981: t.p. (Francine Patterson) pref. (Dr. Francine (Penny) Patterson) Koko's story, 1987: title page (Dr. Francine Patterson) book jacket (doctorate in developmental psychology from Stanford University; President and Research Director of The Gorilla Foundation; lives in Woodside, California) Wikipedia, February 22, 2015 (Francine Patterson; Dr. Francine "Penny" Patterson (born February 13, 1947, in Chicago, Illinois); American researcher. She is best known for teaching a modified form of American Sign Language, which she calls "Gorilla Sign Language", or GSL, to a gorilla named Koko beginning in 1972; serves as the President and Research Director of The Gorilla Foundation; Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Santa Clara University and a member of the Board of Consultants at the Center for Cross Cultural Communication in Washington, D.C. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the Gorilla journal) |
| Associated language | eng |
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