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Martha Farah is a cognitive neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscience

Cognitive neuroscience is an academic field concerned with the scientific study of biological substrate underlying cognition, with a specific focus on the neural substrates of mental processes and their behavioral manifestations....
 researcher at the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is America's first university and is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States....
 who specializes in the neural bases of vision
Vision

Vision or Visions may refer to:* visual perception, eyesight* vision , inspirational experiences* hallucination, vivid conscious perception in the absence of a stimulus....
, memory
Memory

In psychology, memory is an organism's mental ability to store, retain and recall information. Traditional studies of memory began in the fields of philosophy, including techniques of mnemonic....
, and executive function.

In recent years, Farah 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
Agnosia

Agnosia is a loss of ability to recognize objects, persons, sounds, shapes, or smells while the specific sense is not defective nor is there any significant memory loss....
: Disorders of Object Recognition and What They Tell Us about Normal Vision (MIT Press, Bradford Books, 1990).






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Martha Farah is a cognitive neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscience

Cognitive neuroscience is an academic field concerned with the scientific study of biological substrate underlying cognition, with a specific focus on the neural substrates of mental processes and their behavioral manifestations....
 researcher at the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania is a private research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is America's first university and is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States....
 who specializes in the neural bases of vision
Vision

Vision or Visions may refer to:* visual perception, eyesight* vision , inspirational experiences* hallucination, vivid conscious perception in the absence of a stimulus....
, memory
Memory

In psychology, memory is an organism's mental ability to store, retain and recall information. Traditional studies of memory began in the fields of philosophy, including techniques of mnemonic....
, and executive function.

In recent years, Farah 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
Agnosia

Agnosia is a loss of ability to recognize objects, persons, sounds, shapes, or smells while the specific sense is not defective nor is there any significant memory loss....
: Disorders of Object Recognition and What They Tell Us about Normal Vision (MIT Press, Bradford Books, 1990). Farah has undergraduate degrees in Metallurgy
Metallurgy

Metallurgy is a domain of materials science that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic Chemical element, their intermetallics, and their mixtures, which are called alloys....
 and Philosophy
Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
 from MIT, and a doctorate in Psychology from Harvard University
Harvard University

Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States, and a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature, Harvard is the Colonial Colleges institution of higher learning in the United States....
. She has taught at Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University is a top private university research university in Pittsburgh. Since its inception, Carnegie Mellon has grown into a world-renowned institution, with numerous programs that are frequently college and university rankings among the best in the world....
 and at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is now a Professor
Professor

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 of Psychology
Psychology

Psychology is an academic and applied science discipline involving the science study of human mental functions and behavior. Occasionally it also relies on symbolic hermeneutics and critical theory, although these traditions are less pronounced than in other social sciences such as sociology....
 and Director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience.

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  • List of Jewish scientists and philosophers
    List of Jewish scientists and philosophers

    This is a List of Jews scientists and philosophers by country. For more detailed lists, see the links provided....
  • Prosopagnosia
    Prosopagnosia

    Prosopagnosia is a disorder of face perception where the ability to recognize faces is impaired, while the ability to recognize other objects may be relatively intact....


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