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. Widely considered to be a trailblazer and a worldwide leader in the field of visual cognition, she was inducted into the National Academy of Sciences in 2015 and into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019.
Below are some recent publications from the lab:
Example stimuli from the (A) object-centered part relations, (B) allocentric relations (C) depth, (D)and tool localizers used in Experiment 1.
Conjunction maps illustrating areas of distinct and overlapping coding for object-centered part-relations and (A) allocentric relations, (B) depth, and (C) tools. A value closer 1 indicates a greater response to part relations; a value closer to 0 indicates
Ayzenberg, V., & Behrmann, M. (2022). The dorsal visual pathway represents object-centered spatial relations for object recognition. Journal of Neuroscience. doi: https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2257-21.202
Professor of Psychology, Marlene Behrmann, Ph.D.
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B.A. in Speech and Hearing Therapy: 1981, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
M.A. in Speech Pathology: 1984, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Ph.D. in Psychology: 1991, University of Toronto, Canada
News
Congratulations to Dr. Michael Granovetter who succesfully defended his PhD!
Congratulations to Sophia Robert for winning the Females of Vision et al (FoVea) travel award to attend the Annual Vision Sciences Society (VSS) and for winning the Carnegie Graduate Student Fellowship to work with this year's prize recipient Dr. Marisa Carrasco at NY
Congratulations to Nicholaus Blauch who has taken a summer internship at Spark Neuro!
New publications:
Ayzenberg, V., & Behrmann, M. (2022). The dorsal visual pathway represents object-centered spatial relations for object recognition. Journal of Neuroscience.
Sha, Z., Van Rooij, D... Anagnostou, E., Arango, C., Auzias, G., Behrmann, M., ... & Francks, C. (2022). Subtly altered topological asymmetry of brain structural covariance networks in autism spectrum disorder across 43 datasets from the ENIGMA consortium. Molecular Psychiatry, 1-12.
Ahmad, Z., Behrmann, M., Patterson, C., & Freud, E. (2022). Unilateral resection of both cortical visual pathways in a pediatric patient alters action but not perception. Neuropsychologia, 168, 108182.
Behrmann, M., & Avidan, G. (2022). Face perception: computational insights from phylogeny. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.01.006
Hoogman, M., Van Rooij, D., Klein, M... Behrmann, M... & Franke, B. (2022). Consortium neuroscience of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder: The ENIGMA adventure. Human brain mapping, 43(1), 37-55.
Blauch, N. M., Behrmann, M. and Plaut, D. C. (2022). A connectivity-constrained computational account of topographic organization in high-level visual cortex, PNAS.
Jones, M. .. Behrmann, M. … (2021). Knowledge gaps for functional outcomes after multilobar resective and disconnective pediatric epilepsy surgery: Conference Proceedings of the Patient- Centered Stakeholder Meeting 2019, Epilepsy Disorders, doi: 10.1684/epd.2021.1373.
Hahamy. A., Wilf, M., Rosin, B., Behrmann, M. and Malach, R. (2021). How do the blind ‘see’? The role of spontaneous brain activity in self-generated perception, Brain, 144(1):340-353.
Lerner, Y., Scherf, K. S., Katkov, M., Hasson, U. and Behrmann, M. (2021). Age-Related Changes in Neural Networks Supporting Complex Visual and Social Processing in Adolescence, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
We strive to foster an inclusive and welcoming environment, where everyone feels respected and valued. I encourage individuals from under-represented minority groups, who may be interested in short-term projects, PhD programs, or postdoctoral training to reach out to me by email (behrmann [at] cmu [dot] edu) to discuss opportunities.
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