Marlene Behrmann Last updated July 17, 2025 Career and research From 1991 to 1993, Behrmann worked in the Departments of Psychology and Medicine of the University of Toronto , and in 1993, she accepted a position as a faculty member in the Department of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University , where she remained until moving to the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh in 2022. She has also held an adjunct professorship in the Departments of Neuroscience and Communication Disorders at the University of Pittsburgh , and she has served as a visiting professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel in 2000-2001 and the University of Toronto in 2006–2007. Behrmann is a member of the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and the Neuroscience Institute.
Behrmann's research addresses a specific question: How does the brain assemble a meaningful and coherent interpretation of the sparse information received from the eyes? Widely considered to be a trailblazer and a worldwide leader in the field of visual cognition, Behrmann uses neuroimaging and psychophysics to study the human visual system in health and disease to answer this question.
Representative papers Granovetter, Michael C.; Robert, Sophia; Ettensohn, Leah; Behrmann, Marlene (2022). "With childhood hemispherectomy, one hemisphere can support—but is suboptimal for—word and face recognition" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 119 (44): e2212936119. Bibcode :2022PNAS..11912936G . bioRxiv 10.1101/2020.11.06.371823 . doi : 10.1073/pnas.2212936119 . PMC 9636967 . PMID 36282918 . Liu, Ning; Behrmann, Marlene; Turchi, Janita N.; Avidan, Galia; Hadj-Bouziane, Fadila; Ungerleider, Leslie G. (2022). "Bidirectional and parallel relationships in macaque face circuit revealed by fMRI and causal pharmacological inactivation" . Nature Communications . 13 (1): 6787. Bibcode :2022NatCo..13.6787L . doi :10.1038/s41467-022-34451-x . PMC 9646786 . PMID 36351907 . Blauch, Nicholas M.; Behrmann, Marlene; Plaut, David C. (2022). "A connectivity-constrained computational account of topographic organization in primate high-level visual cortex" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 119 (3). Bibcode :2022PNAS..11912566B . doi : 10.1073/pnas.2112566119 . PMC 8784138 . PMID 35027449 . Avidan, Galia; Behrmann, Marlene (2021). "Spatial Integration in Normal Face Processing and Its Breakdown in Congenital Prosopagnosia" . Annual Review of Vision Science . 7 : 301– 321. doi : 10.1146/annurev-vision-113020-012740 . PMID 34014762 . Behrmann, Marlene; Avidan, Galia; Leonard, Grace Lee; Kimchi, Rutie; Luna, Beatriz; Humphreys, Kate; Minshew, Nancy (January 2006). "Configural processing in autism and its relationship to face processing". Neuropsychologia . 44 (1): 110– 129. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.360.7141 . doi :10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.04.002 . PMID 15907952 . S2CID 6407530 . Behrmann, M.; Bub, D. (June 1992). "Surface dyslexia and dysgraphia: dual routes, single lexicon". Cognitive Neuropsychology . 9 (3): 209– 251. doi :10.1080/02643299208252059 . Behrmann, Marlene; Geng, Joy J; Shomstein, Sarah (April 2004). "Parietal cortex and attention" . Current Opinion in Neurobiology . 14 (2): 212– 217. doi :10.1016/j.conb.2004.03.012 . PMID 15082327 . S2CID 7789667 . Behrmann, Marlene; Winocur, Gordon; Moscovitch, Morris (October 1992). "Dissociation between mental imagery and object recognition in a brain-damaged patient". Nature . 359 (6396): 636– 637. Bibcode :1992Natur.359..636B . doi :10.1038/359636a0 . PMID 1406994 . S2CID 4241164 . Behrmann, Marlene; Zemel, Richard S.; Mozer, Michael C. (1998). "Object-based attention and occlusion: Evidence from normal participants and a computational model". Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance . 24 (4): 1011– 1036. doi :10.1037/0096-1523.24.4.1011 . PMID 9706708 . S2CID 184823 . References 1 2 "Marlene Behrmann, PhD" . www.pitt.edu . University of Pittsburgh. Retrieved July 12, 2024 . ↑ "Marlene Behrmann" . National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved December 16, 2019 . ↑ "Marlene Behrmann" . American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved December 16, 2019 . ↑ "Fellows" . Society of Experimental Psychologists. Archived from the original on June 14, 2013. Retrieved December 16, 2019 . ↑ "Society Awards" . Cognitive Science Society. Archived from the original on April 4, 2022. Retrieved December 16, 2019 . ↑ Stacy Kish (November 15, 2019). "Cognitive Neuroscience Society Honors Behrmann for Distinguished Career" . Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved December 16, 2019 . External links
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