Marlene Behrmann

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

Life

Behrmann specializes in the cognitive neurosciences of visual perception with a particular focus on object recognition . The main approach in their research is to study the behavior of adult people who have suffered brain damage (usually from stroke or head injuries) that selectively affects their ability to perform these processes. Behrmann also conducts rehabilitation studies with brain-damaged subjects in order to observe the deficits, which also provide information about the mechanisms of visual perception.

She received a BA in Speech and Aural Therapy from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg , South Africa in 1981 , an MA in Speech Therapy from the University of Witwatersrand in 1984 and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Toronto . From 1991 to 1993 Behrmann worked in the departments of psychology and medicine at the University of Toronto, and in 1993 she accepted a position as a lecturer in the department of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), where she has remained since: 1993-1997 as an assistant Professor, 1997–2002 as associate professor and since 2002 as professor. She has also been an Associate Professor in the Department of Neuroscience and Communication Disorders at the University of Pittsburgh since 1994 .

Behrmann was a visiting professor at the Weizmann Institute for Science in Israel from 2000 to 2001 and at the University of Toronto from 2006 to 2007. Behrmann is a member of the Center for the Neuronal Basics of Cognition at the CMU. In 2015 she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and in 2019 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Web links

• Marlene Behrmann on the Carnegie Mellon University website
• Marlene Behrmann on the website of the Center for the Neural Bases of Cognition