astronomy

Jenni Ogden

Jenni Ogden is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Jenni Ogden rather than just read about it. In short: Jennifer Ann Ogden is a New Zealand clinical neuropsychologist, and was an associate professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Auckland. She is a fiction and non-fiction author, and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi since 1999.

Key takeaways

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Reference excerpt

Jennifer Ann Ogden is a New Zealand clinical neuropsychologist, and was an associate professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Auckland. She is a fiction and non-fiction author, and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi since 1999.

Early life and education Ogden was born in Ashburton, and studied to be a vet at Massey University before switching to neuroscience.

Career Ogden has a PhD from the University of Auckland completed in 1983, titled Out of mind, out of sight: unilateral spatial disorders in brain-damaged patients, supervised by Michael Corballis. Ogden had a one-year fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she became one of a small number of neuroscientists granted access to famous amnesiac Henry Molaison. Molaison had lost all memory during an operation to control epileptic seizures. Ogden ran the postgraduate clinical psychology programme at the University of Auckland, where she was an associate professor in the Department of Psychology. Later she retired to Great Barrier Island to write. Ogden wrote a textbook about brain disorders, Fractured Minds: A Case-Study Approach to Clinical Neuropsychology, which is used in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and is in second edition. She also wrote a neuropsychology book aimed at the general reader, Trouble in Mind, about 14 patients, including Molaison. Her book included the only known photo of Molaison, which was taken against MIT guidelines.

Fiction writing Ogden has written three works on fiction on neurological themes. Her first novel, A Drop in the Ocean, which was published in 2016, featuring a neurologist who loses research funding. The book won several awards, including the Gold Nautilus Book Award for Fiction, the Gold Sarton Women's Book Award for Contemporary Fiction, a Gold Award in the Independent Publisher Book Awards for Best Fiction, Australia and NZ, and a Silver Award in the Readers' Favorite International Book Awards for Women's Fiction awards. Her second novel, The Moon is Missing, was published in September 2020.

Awards and honours Ogden was awarded the Distinguished Career Award by the International Neuropsychological Society in 2015. Ogden was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi in 1999.

Selected publications

Ogden JA (1 January 1985). "Anterior-posterior interhemispheric differences in the loci of lesions producing visual hemineglect". Brain and Cognition. 4 (1): 59–75. doi:10.1016/0278-2626(85)90054-5. ISSN 0278-2626. PMID 4027055. Wikidata Q41502175. Ogden JA (1 June 1993). "Visual object agnosia, prosopagnosia, achromatopsia, loss of visual imagery, and autobiographical amnesia following recovery from cortical blindness: case M.H.". Neuropsychologia. 31 (6): 571–589. doi:10.1016/0028-3932(93)90053-3. ISSN 0028-3932. PMID 8341415. Wikidata Q48275812. Ogden JA; Mee EW; Henning M (1 October 1993). "A prospective study of impairment of cognition and memory and recovery after subarachnoid hemorrhage". Neurosurgery. 33 (4): 572-86; discussion 586-7. doi:10.1227/00006123-199310000-00004. ISSN 0148-396X. PMID 8232796. Wikidata Q52033103. J. A. Ogden; T. Utley; E. W. Mee (1 July 1997). "Neurological and psychosocial outcome 4 to 7 years after subarachnoid hemorrhage" (PDF). Neurosurgery. 41 (1): 25–34. doi:10.1097/00006123-199707000-00008. ISSN 0148-396X. PMID 9218292. Wikidata Q48673507.

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Jenni Ogden

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Jenni Ogden claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Jenni Ogden before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Jenni Ogden ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Jenni Ogden

In research: Jenni Ogden appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Jenni Ogden in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Jenni Ogden is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Academic staff of the University of Auckland, Fellows of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Living people, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Jenni Ogden outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Frequently asked questions

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Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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