Marlene Behrmann (born April 14, 1959) is a Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Pittsburgh.
She specializes in the cognitive neuroscience of visual perception, with a specific focus on object recognition.
in speech and hearing therapy from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1981; an M.A.
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?