Marlene Behrmann

Marlene Behrmann (born April 14, 1959) is a Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. She specializes in the cognitive neuroscience of visual perception, with a specific focus on object recognition.[1]

Marlene Behrmann
Born (1959-04-14) April 14, 1959
Alma materUniversity of Witwatersrand (B.A., 1981)
University of Witwatersrand (B.A., 1984)
University of Toronto (Ph.D., 1991)
Scientific career
FieldsPsychology
InstitutionsUniversity of Toronto
Weizmann Institute of Science
Carnegie Mellon University

Education

Marlene Behrmann was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 14, 1959. She received a B.A. in speech and hearing therapy from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1981; an M.A. in speech pathology from the University of Witwatersrand in 1984, and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Toronto in 1991.[1]

Career and research

From 1991 to 1993, Behrmann worked in the Departments of Psychology and Medicine of the University of Toronto, and in 1993, she accepted a position as a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, where she has remained since. She has also held an adjunct professorship in the Departments of Neuroscience and Communication Disorders at the University of Pittsburgh since 1994, and she has served as a Visiting Professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel in 2000-2001 and the University of Toronto in 2006–2007. Behrmann is a member of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at CMU.

The major approach she uses in her research is to study the behavior of human adults who have sustained brain damage (usually through stroke or head injury), which selectively affects their ability to carry out these processes. Behrmann also conducts rehabilitation studies with brain damaged subjects in order to treat the observed deficits, which also sheds light on the mechanisms underlying visual cognition.

Awards and honors

Representative Papers
  • Behrmann, Marlene; Avidan, Galia; Leonard, Grace Lee; Kimchi, Rutie; Luna, Beatriz; Humphreys, Kate; Minshew, Nancy (January 2006). "Configural processing in autism and its relationship to face processing". Neuropsychologia. 44 (1): 110–129. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.360.7141. doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.04.002. PMID 15907952.
  • Behrmann, M.; Bub, D. (June 1992). "Surface dyslexia and dysgraphia: dual routes, single lexicon". Cognitive Neuropsychology. 9 (3): 209–251. doi:10.1080/02643299208252059. ISSN 0264-3294.
  • Behrmann, Marlene; Geng, Joy J; Shomstein, Sarah (April 2004). "Parietal cortex and attention". Current Opinion in Neurobiology. 14 (2): 212–217. doi:10.1016/j.conb.2004.03.012. PMID 15082327.
  • Behrmann, Marlene; Zemel, Richard S.; Mozer, Michael C. (1998). "Object-based attention and occlusion: Evidence from normal participants and a computational model". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 24 (4): 1011–1036. doi:10.1037/0096-1523.24.4.1011. ISSN 1939-1277.

References
  1. "CMU - Behrmann Lab". www.cmu.edu. Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
  2. "Marlene Behrmann". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
  3. "Marlene Behrmann". American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
  4. "Fellows". Society of Experimental Psychologists. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
  5. "Society Awards". Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
  6. Stacy Kish (November 15, 2019). "Cognitive Neuroscience Society Honors Behrmann for Distinguished Career". Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved December 16, 2019.
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