Dr. Marlene Behrmann
Dr. Marlene Behrmann is a Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, whose 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., Eack, S. M, Keller, T., Minshew, N. and Behrmann, M. (2019). White matter integrity in schizophrenia and autism: abnormal diffusion across the brain in schizophrenia? doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107233
Maallo, A. M. S., Freud, E., Liu, T. T., Patterson, C. and Behrmann, M. (in press). Effects of unilateral cortical resection of the visual cortex on bilateral human white matter. doi: 10.1016/j.neur
ILF and IFOF are present in patients with VOTC resections. The contralesional and even ipsilesional inferior longitudinal and inferior fronto-occipital fasciculi are present in most patients with VOTC resections to their right hemisphere (RH) and left hemisphere (LH). Anatomical images show the resection site in each patient. Both contralesional and ipsilesional tracts were present in most patients, except for right (ipsilesional) ILF and IFOF in KQ, and left (ipsilesional) IFOF in SN. Ages shown for patients are at time of data acquisition.
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 Dr. Marlene Behrmann for receiving the Fred Kavli Distinguished Career Contributions in Cognitive Neuroscience Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society.
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.
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:
Maallo, A. M. S., Freud, E., Liu, T. T., Patterson, C. and Behrmann, M. Effects of unilateral cortical resection of the visual cortex on bilateral human white matter. In press, NeuroImage, doi: 10.1016/j.neur
Haigh, S., Eack, S. M, Keller, T., Minshew, N. and Behrmann, M. (2019). White matter integrity in schizophrenia and autism: abnormal diffusion across the brain in schizophrenia? In press, Neuropsychologia.
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]