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. She 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:
Maallo, A. M. S., Freud, E., Liu, T. T., Patterson, C. and Behrmann, M. (2020). Effects of unilateral cortical resection of the visual cortex on bilateral human white matter. NeuroImage. 10.1016/j.neur
Behrmann, M., & Plaut, D. C. (2020). Hemispheric Organization for Visual Object Recognition: A Theoretical Account and Empirical Evidence. Perception. doi.org/10.1177/0301006619899049
Professor of Psychology, 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 being the recipient of the 2020 Davida Teller Award, which is given to a female vision scientist in recognition of her exceptional, lasting contributions to the field of vision science.
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.
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:
Behrmann, M., & Plaut, D. C. (2020). Hemispheric Organization for Visual Object Recognition: A Theoretical Account and Empirical Evidence. Perception. doi.org/10.1177/0301006619899049
Maallo, A. M. S., Freud, E., Liu, T. T., Patterson, C. and Behrmann, M. (2020). Effects of unilateral cortical resection of the visual cortex on bilateral human white matter. NeuroImage. 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]