Marlene Behrmann

Marlene Behrmann ( born April 14, 1959 in Johannesburg, South Africa ) is a psychologist with South African, Canadian and U.S. citizenship. She is a professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University.

Life

Bohrmann specializes in the cognitive neuroscience of visual perception with a special emphasis on object recognition. The main approach in their research is to study the behavior of adult people who have suffered brain damage (usually caused by stroke or head injury ) that selectively affect their ability to carry out these processes. Behrmann also performs rehabilitation studies with brain-damaged subjects to observe the deficiencies, which also give insight into the mechanisms of visual perception.

She received in 1981 a B. A. in speech and hearing therapy at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1984 with an MA in Speech Pathology at the University of Witwatersrand in 1991 and a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Toronto. From 1991 to 1993 Behrmann worked in the fields of psychology and medicine at the University of Toronto and in 1993 she took a job as a lecturer at the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, where she remained ever since: from 1993 to 1997 as an Assistant Professor, 1997 -2002 as an associate professor and since 2002 as a professor. She also holds an associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Communication Disorders at the University of Pittsburgh since 1994.

Behrmann was a visiting professor from 2000 to 2001 at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and from 2006 to 2007 at the University of Toronto. Behrmann is a member of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at CMU.