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Meet Dr. Marlene Behrmann, PhD

Dr. Behrmann is a professor of psychology, whose credentials, research, and work are highlighted in her CV as well as via PubMed and Scholar.

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

New publications:

Blauch, N. M., Plaut, D. C., Vin, R., and Behrmann, M. (2025). Individual variation in the functional lateralization of human ventral temporal cortex: Local competition and long-range coupling, Imaging Neuroscience. doi: 10.1162/imag_a_00488.

Robinson,A. K., GrootswagersT., Shiatek, S., Behrmann,M. and Carlson, T. A. (2024). Dynamics of visual object coding within and across the hemispheres: Objects in the periphery. Scientific Advances, in press.

Bleimeister, I., Avni, I., Granovetter, M., Meiri, G., Ilan, M., Flusser, H., Michaelovski, A. Menashe, I., Behrmann,M.*, Dinstein, I.* (*co-senior authors) (2024). Idiosyncratic pupil regulation in autistic children, Autism Research. doi: 10.1002/aur.3234. Online ahead of print.

Liu, N., Avidan, G., Turchi, J. N., Hadj-Bouziane, F. and Behrmann, M. (2024). A possible neural basis for attentional capture revealed by fMRI and causal pharmacological inactivation in macaques, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. doi: 10.1162/jocn_a_02211. Online ahead of print. PMID: PMC8784138

Robert, S., Granovetter, M. C., Patterson, C. and Behrmann, M. (2024). Investigation of hemispheric functional organization after pediatric epilepsy surgery with naturalistic neuroimaging, PNAS, Jul 9;121(28):e2317458121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2317458121.

Peskin, N., Behrmann, M., Gabay, S. and Gabay, Y. (2024). Prolonged reliance on subcortical mechanisms during face and word recognition in developmental dyslexia, Brain and Cognition, 174, doi: 10.1016/j.bandc.2023.106106. Online ahead of print.

Simmons, C., Granovetter, M. C., Robert, S., Liu, T. T., Patterson, C. and Behrmann, M. (2024). Holistic processing and expertise effects after pediatric resection of occipitotemporal cortex, Neuropsychologia, 194, 108789. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108789.

Vin, R., Blauch, N. M., Plaut, D. C., & Behrmann, M. (2024). Visual word processing engages a hierarchical, distributed, and bilateral cortical network. Iscience, 27(2). doi: 10.1016/j.isci.2024.108809.