Martha Farah
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Martha Farah is a cognitive neuroscience researcher at the University of Pennsylvania.
She has been trying to understand the mechanisms of vision, memory, and executive function in the human brain. In recent years she has shifted her research focus to a new set of issues that lie at the interface between cognitive neuroscience and "the real world." She has enriched the knowledge base in this domain with her book Visual Agnosia: Disorders of Object Recognition and What They Tell Us about Normal Vision (MIT Press, Bradford Books, 1990). Farah has undergraduate degrees in Metallurgy and Philosophy from MIT, and a doctorate in Psychology from Harvard University. She has taught at Carnegie Mellon University and at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is now a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.
