Dr. Marlene Behrmann
Dr. Marlene Behrmann is a Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, who's research specializes in the cognitive basis of visual perception, with a specific focus on object recognition. Dr. Behrmann received her B.A. in speech and hearing therapy in 1981, followed by her M.A. in speech pathology in 1984, both from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. She then received a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Toronto in 1991. Dr Behrmann was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences in 2015 and into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.
Dr. Behrmann is widely considered to be a trailblazer and a worldwide leader in the field of visual cognition. Below is an example of recently published work from the lab:
Haigh, S. M., Chamanzar, A., Grover, P. and Behrmann, M. (2019). Cortical hyper-excitability in migraine in response to chromatic patterns, Headache, in press, doi: 10.1111/head.13620.
Chromaticities for each color pair used in the grating patterns. Examples of large, mid-large, and small chromaticity separation grating stimuli shown. Co-ordinates adjusted slightly for illustration.
Waveforms for the small, mid-small, mid-large, and large chromaticity separations for individuals with migraine and headache-free controls for each cluster (averaged across all electrodes in each cluster).
Professor of Psychology, Dr. Marlene Behrmann, Ph.D.
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B.A. in Speech and Hearing Therapy: University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
M.A. in Speech Pathology: University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Ph.D. in Psychology: University of Toronto, Canada
News
Congratulations to Nick Blauch who received the 2019 Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute Presidential Fellowship
Congratulations to Michael Granovetter and Marge Maallo for getting travel awards to attend the Big Data Neuroscience Workshop 2019 in Ann Arbor MI.
Drs. Behrmann and Grover are seeking applications for a postdoctoral trainee position. See details here.
Congratulations to Dr. Behrmann for being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!
Congratulations to Dr. Maallo for receiving a travel award to attend the Sackler Colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences in May.
Congratulations to Dr. Behrmann for receiving the 2019 Annual Rita G. Rudel/Lucy G. Moses award! The Lecture will be at Columbia University in New York.
Congratulations to Michael Granovetter for receiving an award to attend the 2019 American Academy of Pediatrics Legislative Conference in Wasington DC in April!
In the news:
Dr. Behrmann joined Pittsburgh leaders in community engagement during the annual event of Leadership Pittsburgh Inc. Read about it here.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette covered the latest research from the Behrmann lab. Read about it here.
New publications:
Blauch, N. and Behrmann, M. (2019) Representing faces in 3D. Nature Human Behavior. doi: 10.1038/s41562-019-0630-6.
Freud, E., Plaut, D. C. and Behrmann, M. (2019). Protracted developmental trajectory of shape processing along the two visual pathways, in press, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 10:1-9. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_01434. [Epub ahead of print].
Liu TT, Freud E, Patterson C, Behrmann M. J Neurosci. 2019 Jun 5. pii: 3160-18. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3160-18.2019
Holler, D. E., Behrmann, M. and Snow, J. C. (2019). Real-world size coding of solid objects, but not 2-D or 3-D images, in visual agnosia patients with bilateral ventral lesions, Cortex, pii: S0010-9452(19)30101-7. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.02.030. [Epub ahead of print]
Holzinger, Y., Ullman, S., Behrmann, M. and Avidan, G. (2019). Minimal Recognizable Configurations (MIRCs) elicit category-selective responses in higher-order visual cortex, J. Cognitive Neuroscience, May 6:1-14. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_01420. [Epub ahead of print]. PMID: 31059350 DOI:10.1162/jocn_a_01420
Collins, E., Freud, E., Kainerstorfer, J., Cao, J. and Behrmann, M. Temporal dynamics of shape processing as revealed by three independent visual pathways, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 31(6), 2019, 821-836.