Sarah Shomstein

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

News

Kelly Martin joins the lab as a postdoc.

Claire Simmons joins the lab as a PhD student.

Congratulations to Maria Chroneos for receiving the NIH F30 grant!

Welcome to Kelly Martin who has been admitted to T32 grant: Training in the Neurobiology of Neurological Disease!

Congratulations to Michael Granovetter who has graduated from the MD PhD program and is going to NYU to do
Child Neurology!

New publications:

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.

Ayzenberg, V. and Behrmann, M. (2023). Development of visual object recognition, Nature Reviews Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-023-00266-w. [preprint available on PsyArxiv].

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, in press.

Vin, R., Blauch, N. M., Plaut, D. C. and Behrmann, M. (2024). Beyond the VWFA: a bihemispheric large-scale network underlies visual word recognition, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4540768, iScience, in press.

Ayzenberg, V., Granovetter, M. C., Robert, S., Patterson, C. and Behrmann, M. (2023). Differential functional reorganization of ventral and dorsal visual pathways following childhood hemispherectomy, Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101323.