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  • 2019 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Marlene Behrmann is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on neuroscience, with a specialization in cognitive neuroscience. The subfields of their work include psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, as well as developmental and educational psychology.

The main topics investigated in their research cover face recognition and perception, visual perception and processing mechanisms, neural dynamics and brain function, functional brain connectivity studies, hemispheric asymmetry in neuroscience, spatial neglect and hemispheric dysfunction, and autism spectrum disorder research.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Michael C. Granovetter, Christina Patterson, David C. Plaut, Sophia Robert, and Nicholas M. Blauch.

Behrmann's recent papers include the following:

  • Subcortical Brain Volume, Regional Cortical Thickness, and Cortical Surface Area Across Disorders: Findings From the ENIGMA ADHD, ASD, and OCD Working Groups (2020, American Journal of Psychiatry)
  • Consortium neuroscience of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder: The ENIGMA adventure (2020, Human Brain Mapping)
  • Hemispheric Organization for Visual Object Recognition: A Theoretical Account and Empirical Evidence (2020, Perception)
  • Does the brain's ventral visual pathway compute object shape? (2022, Trends in Cognitive Sciences)
  • Computational insights into human perceptual expertise for familiar and unfamiliar face recognition (2020, Cognition)

The scientist publishes frequently in several venues, such as Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, Journal of Vision, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Trends in Cognitive Sciences, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Among awards received, Marlene Behrmann was named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019 and became a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2015.

Best Publications

  • What is special about face recognition? nineteen experiments on a person with visual object agnosia and dyslexia but normal face recognition

    Morris Moscovitch;Gordon Winocur;Marlene Behrmann

  • Parietal Cortex and Attention

    Marlene Behrmann;Joy J Geng;Sarah Shomstein

  • Eccentricity bias as an organizing principle for human high-order object areas

    Uri Hasson;If At Levy;If At Levy;Marlene Behrmann;Talma Hendler;Talma Hendler

  • Cortical and Subcortical Brain Morphometry Differences Between Patients With Autism Spectrum Disorder and Healthy Individuals Across the Lifespan: Results From the ENIGMA ASD Working Group

    Daan van Rooij;Evdokia Anagnostou;Celso Arango;Guillaume Auzias

  • Seeing it differently: visual processing in autism

    Marlene Behrmann;Cibu Thomas;Kate Humphreys

  • Congenital prosopagnosia: face-blind from birth

    Marlene Behrmann;Galia Avidan

  • Visual category-selectivity for faces, places and objects emerges along different developmental trajectories.

    K. Suzanne Scherf;Marlene Behrmann;Kate Humphreys;Beatriz Luna

  • The idiosyncratic brain: distortion of spontaneous connectivity patterns in autism spectrum disorder

    Avital Hahamy;Marlene Behrmann;Rafael Malach

  • Disrupted neural synchronization in toddlers with autism

    Ilan Dinstein;Ilan Dinstein;Karen Pierce;Lisa Eyler;Stephanie Solso

  • Configural processing in autism and its relationship to face processing

    Marlene Behrmann;Galia Avidan;Grace Lee Leonard;Rutie Kimchi

  • Can Face Recognition Really be Dissociated from Object Recognition

    Isabel Gauthier;Marlene Behrmann;Michael J. Tarr

  • A mirror up to nature.

    Ilan Dinstein;Cibu Thomas;Marlene Behrmann;David J. Heeger;David J. Heeger

  • Spatial probability as an attentional cue in visual search

    Joy J. Geng;Joy J. Geng;Marlene Behrmann

  • Reduced structural connectivity in ventral visual cortex in congenital prosopagnosia.

    Cibu Thomas;Galia Avidan;Kate Humphreys;Kwan-jin Jung

  • The cognitive neuroscience of mental imagery

    S. M. Kosslyn;M. Behrmann;Marc Jeannerod

  • Impact of learning on representation of parts and wholes in monkey inferotemporal cortex

    Chris I. Baker;Marlene Behrmann;Marlene Behrmann;Marlene Behrmann;Carl R. Olson;Carl R. Olson;Carl R. Olson

  • Long-term semantic priming: a computational account and empirical evidence.

    Suzanna Becker;Morris Moscovitch;Marlene Behrmann;Steve Joordens

  • A fine-grained analysis of facial expression processing in high-functioning adults with autism.

    Kate Humphreys;Nancy Minshew;Grace Lee Leonard;Marlene Behrmann

  • Anatomical Abnormalities in Autism

    Shlomi Haar;Sigal Berman;Marlene Behrmann;Ilan Dinstein

  • Distributed circuits, not circumscribed centers, mediate visual recognition

    Marlene Behrmann;David C. Plaut

  • What is special about face recognition

    Morris Moscovitch;Gordon Winocur;Marlene Behrmann

  • FAST-TRACK REPORT Visual category-selectivity for faces, places and objects emerges along different developmental trajectories

    K. Suzanne Scherf;Marlene Behrmann;Kate Humphreys;Beatriz Luna

Frequent Co-Authors

David C. Plaut
David C. Plaut Carnegie Mellon University
Galia Avidan
Galia Avidan Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
David J. Heeger
David J. Heeger New York University
Sandra E. Black
Sandra E. Black University of Toronto
Michael J. Tarr
Michael J. Tarr Carnegie Mellon University
Nancy J. Minshew
Nancy J. Minshew University of Pittsburgh
Morris Moscovitch
Morris Moscovitch University of Toronto
Beatriz Luna
Beatriz Luna University of Pittsburgh
Ruth Kimchi
Ruth Kimchi University of Haifa
Joy J. Geng
Joy J. Geng University of California, Davis

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